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Best time to cross the Madawaska-Edmundston border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Madawaska-Edmundston, 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 Edmundston. 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.

  1. Monday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (470 readings)
  2. Friday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (451 readings)
  3. Thursday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (450 readings)
  4. Thursday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (444 readings)
  5. Wednesday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (443 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Tuesday 15:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (373 readings)
  2. Friday 20:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (375 readings)
  3. Friday 19:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (375 readings)
  4. Saturday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (378 readings)
  5. Thursday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (379 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 387 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 387 readings).

Weekday by hour

Madawaska-Edmundston: 90th-percentile passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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Madawaska-Edmundston: median passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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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.