Best time to cross · New York
Best time to cross the Peace Bridge border
The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Peace Bridge, 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 Fort Erie (Peace Bridge). 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.
- Wednesday 03:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 3 min (2094 readings)
- Wednesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 4 min (2192 readings)
- Tuesday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 4 min (2150 readings)
- Wednesday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 4 min (2126 readings)
- Thursday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 4 min (2122 readings)
Busiest windows
- Sunday 18:00: median 10 min, 90th percentile 43 min (2208 readings)
- Sunday 19:00: median 7 min, 90th percentile 43 min (2186 readings)
- Sunday 20:00: median 4 min, 90th percentile 40 min (2150 readings)
- Sunday 21:00: median 3 min, 90th percentile 36 min (2150 readings)
- Sunday 17:00: median 9 min, 90th percentile 35 min (2220 readings)
Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 02:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 1987 readings); Sunday 18:00 the highest (10 min, 2208 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 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 29 | 35 | 43 | 43 | 40 | 36 | 25 | 16 |
| Mon | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Tue | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| Wed | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Thu | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 12 |
| Fri | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 15 |
| Sat | 16 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 16 | 23 |
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Mon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Tue | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Thu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Fri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Sat | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
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.