Best time to cross · New York
Best time to cross the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border
The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, by weekday and hour, from ten years of CBSA readings (pre-2020).
Pre-2020 pattern. Based on the CBSA’s 2010–2020 hourly readings for Canada-bound passenger vehicles at Queenston Lewiston Bridge (Travellers and Commercial). Use it to compare days and hours, not to expect a specific wait today. Check the live wait before you leave.
Lowest-wait windows
Ranked by the 90th percentile (one reading in ten was this long or longer), then the median. Hours are local time at the crossing.
- Sunday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1834 readings)
- Sunday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1766 readings)
- Sunday 04:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 1 min (1812 readings)
- Sunday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 1 min (1718 readings)
- Thursday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 2 min (2124 readings)
Busiest windows
- Sunday 19:00: median 12 min, 90th percentile 49 min (2235 readings)
- Sunday 18:00: median 10 min, 90th percentile 45 min (2204 readings)
- Sunday 20:00: median 4 min, 90th percentile 45 min (2151 readings)
- Sunday 17:00: median 7 min, 90th percentile 35 min (2220 readings)
- Sunday 21:00: median 1 min, 90th percentile 31 min (2122 readings)
Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 02:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 1891 readings); Sunday 19:00 the highest (12 min, 2235 readings).
Weekday by hour
| Day | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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| Sun | 16 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 30 | 35 | 45 | 49 | 45 | 31 | 16 | 10 |
| Mon | 10 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 22 | 14 | 6 |
| Tue | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Wed | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Thu | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 7 |
| Fri | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 10 |
| Sat | 12 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 20 | 20 | 15 |
| Day | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Fri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sat | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Darker cells are longer waits; a dot means too few readings. See the history page for the weekday summary and the period covered.
Holidays and events
This series is not broken out by holiday, so we do not state holiday waits. Long weekends and summer Fridays are the periods when the busiest windows above typically last longer; compare against the live figure on the day.