Best time to cross · Washington
Best time to cross the Pacific Highway border
The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Pacific Highway, 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 Pacific Highway. 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.
- Thursday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1551 readings)
- Friday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1548 readings)
- Wednesday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1538 readings)
- Friday 03:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1515 readings)
- Tuesday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1514 readings)
Busiest windows
- Saturday 12:00: median 19 min, 90th percentile 51 min (1441 readings)
- Saturday 11:00: median 18 min, 90th percentile 47 min (1486 readings)
- Sunday 19:00: median 18 min, 90th percentile 46 min (1370 readings)
- Sunday 20:00: median 14 min, 90th percentile 45 min (1392 readings)
- Saturday 13:00: median 14 min, 90th percentile 45 min (1427 readings)
Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 02:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 1355 readings); Sunday 18:00 the highest (19 min, 1426 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 20 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 30 | 34 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 36 | 41 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 30 |
| Mon | 23 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 30 | 29 | 30 | 28 | 26 | 19 |
| Tue | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 10 |
| Wed | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 10 |
| Thu | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 10 |
| Fri | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 27 | 31 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 27 | 20 |
| Sat | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 35 | 47 | 51 | 45 | 42 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 27 |
| 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 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| Mon | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Tue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Wed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Thu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Fri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Sat | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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.