Best time to cross · Washington
Best time to cross the Peace Arch border
The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Peace Arch, 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 Douglas. 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.
- Friday 02:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1330 readings)
- Saturday 02:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1296 readings)
- Tuesday 03:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1294 readings)
- Tuesday 02:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1293 readings)
- Tuesday 04:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (1289 readings)
Busiest windows
- Saturday 12:00: median 25 min, 90th percentile 62 min (1236 readings)
- Saturday 11:00: median 25 min, 90th percentile 57 min (1346 readings)
- Saturday 13:00: median 20 min, 90th percentile 55 min (1278 readings)
- Saturday 10:00: median 16 min, 90th percentile 53 min (1470 readings)
- Sunday 21:00: median 14 min, 90th percentile 50 min (1195 readings)
Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 1249 readings); Saturday 11:00 the highest (25 min, 1346 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 |
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| Sun | 20 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 31 | 35 | 40 | 35 | 33 | 37 | 39 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 47 | 50 | 45 | 45 |
| Mon | 30 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 33 | 36 | 33 | 30 | 31 | 34 | 31 | 28 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 20 |
| Tue | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 23 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 13 |
| Wed | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 28 | 24 | 25 | 30 | 28 | 21 | 19 |
| Thu | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 33 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 30 | 25 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 25 | 20 |
| Fri | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 26 | 36 | 44 | 39 | 39 | 36 | 33 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 38 | 36 | 22 |
| Sat | 19 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 31 | 36 | 53 | 57 | 62 | 55 | 46 | 45 | 45 | 44 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 40 | 30 | 30 |
| 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 |
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| Sun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Mon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Fri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 0 |
| Sat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
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.