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Pacific Highway border wait time history
What ten years of hourly CBSA readings show about waits into Canada at Pacific Highway, labelled as pre-2020 data.
Pre-2020 data. This is the CBSA’s published hourly series for Canada-bound travellers at Pacific Highway, from 2010-03-31 to 2020-03-31. It shows a pattern by weekday and hour, not today’s waits: traffic, staffing and lanes have changed since 2020.
What the ten years show
The series has 246771 readings of the passenger-vehicle wait at Pacific Highway, one roughly every hour. In 39% of the 168 weekday-hour slots the median reading was 0 minutes, so the median alone hides the busy periods; the 90th percentile (one reading in ten was this long or longer) shows them. 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).
By weekday
| Day | Average of hourly medians | Average 90th percentile | Peak hour (90th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 6 min | 25 min | 19:00 (46 min) |
| Monday | 4 min | 19 min | 17:00 (33 min) |
| Tuesday | 2 min | 14 min | 16:00 (27 min) |
| Wednesday | 3 min | 15 min | 17:00 (27 min) |
| Thursday | 3 min | 15 min | 12:00 (28 min) |
| Friday | 4 min | 19 min | 15:00 (33 min) |
| Saturday | 7 min | 24 min | 12:00 (51 min) |
Recorded readings since 2026
Since October 2026 we also record the live CBP and CBSA figures every 30 minutes. Our own weekday-by-hour chart replaces the pre-2020 pattern here once at least 28 days exist; until then the live panel on the Pacific Highway wait page is the current figure.
How to use this
Use the pattern to choose a day and hour, not to predict a number. For the hour-by-hour grid and the best windows see best time to cross Pacific Highway. Data: CBSA historical border wait times, 2010–2020, published under the Open Government Licence - Canada, via our recorder.