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Best time to cross the Massena-Cornwall border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Massena-Cornwall (Seaway), 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 Cornwall Traffic Office. 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. Saturday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (521 readings)
  2. Friday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (519 readings)
  3. Sunday 00:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (517 readings)
  4. Sunday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (513 readings)
  5. Tuesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (512 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Friday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (488 readings)
  2. Saturday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (497 readings)
  3. Sunday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (498 readings)
  4. Sunday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (508 readings)
  5. Monday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (488 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 517 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 517 readings).

Weekday by hour

Massena-Cornwall (Seaway): 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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Massena-Cornwall (Seaway): 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.