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Best time to cross · North Dakota

Best time to cross the North Portal border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at North Portal, 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 North Portal. 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 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (562 readings)
  2. Thursday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (561 readings)
  3. Saturday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (555 readings)
  4. Sunday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (554 readings)
  5. Tuesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (553 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Sunday 18:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (515 readings)
  2. Sunday 19:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (518 readings)
  3. Sunday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (523 readings)
  4. Sunday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (527 readings)
  5. Sunday 15:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 5 min (523 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 512 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 512 readings).

Weekday by hour

North Portal: 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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North Portal: 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.