Best time to cross · Montana
Best time to cross the Sweetgrass-Coutts border
The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Sweetgrass-Coutts, 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 Coutts. 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.
- Tuesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (568 readings)
- Thursday 23:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (561 readings)
- Saturday 23:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (559 readings)
- Wednesday 00:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (557 readings)
- Thursday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (557 readings)
Busiest windows
- Friday 13:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (567 readings)
- Friday 14:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 25 min (538 readings)
- Friday 12:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 25 min (540 readings)
- Thursday 12:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 25 min (552 readings)
- Sunday 14:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 25 min (552 readings)
Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 538 readings); Friday 14:00 the highest (5 min, 538 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Mon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Tue | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Fri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Sat | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.