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Best time to cross the Pembina-Emerson border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Pembina-Emerson, 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 Emerson. 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. Friday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (586 readings)
  2. Friday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (580 readings)
  3. Thursday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (570 readings)
  4. Wednesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (563 readings)
  5. Saturday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (560 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Sunday 17:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 30 min (518 readings)
  2. Sunday 18:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (494 readings)
  3. Sunday 19:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (515 readings)
  4. Sunday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 25 min (511 readings)
  5. Monday 19:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (490 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 464 readings); Sunday 17:00 the highest (5 min, 518 readings).

Weekday by hour

Pembina-Emerson: 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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Pembina-Emerson: 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.