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Buffalo Peace Bridge truck wait times

The wait for commercial trucks entering the United States from Fort Erie, Ontario, into Buffalo, New York, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection posts it, and the hours it’s usually shortest.

Standard lanes
12 min
FAST lanes
—
Lanes open (of 8)
4
Posted by CBP
Oct 29, 9:37 PM EDT

Copied Oct 29, 2026, 9:47 PM Michigan time. With JavaScript on, the wait above refreshes from CBP when the page opens.

Commercial lanes are open 24 hours. Up to 8 commercial lanes. CBP port number 090101.

CBP’s notice: A Ready Lane is available from 2-6pm Monday through Thursday.

Best and worst times to cross

Usually quickest on Sunday at 4 AM (no wait); usually slowest on Sunday at 4 PM (24 min on average).

From 985 readings of the commercial lanes in the last 30 days (the record here started Sep 14, 2026), in the crossing’s local time. Over the last 30 days the average wait was 7 min in the standard lanes.

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CrossingStandardFASTPosted
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Usual wait by day and hour Standard lanes, last 30 days, minutes

HourMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
12 AM104513624
1 AM1010610473
2 AM7772564
3 AM510712423
4 AM4444320
5 AM46117422
6 AM6465346
7 AM3443353
8 AM6111010869
9 AM9568395
10 AM651193158
11 AM966631311
12 PM665662110
1 PM1495642112
2 PM77554910
3 PM119544815
4 PM11561022024
5 PM536641118
6 PM3253534
7 PM3433646
8 PM1311810633
9 PM16191314645
10 PM31857924
11 PM71294725
  • Under 10 min
  • 10–19 min
  • 20–39 min
  • 40–59 min
  • 60 min or more

A dot is an hour with no readings: the crossing was closed or CBP posted no wait. A closed lane counts as unknown, not as zero, so it never makes a crossing look faster than it is.

October last year, by day and hour CBP’s averages, standard lanes, minutes

HourMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
12 AM2747445
1 AM1344632
2 AM2111141
3 AM2122452
4 AM1211224
5 AM2122232
6 AM3232233
7 AM4251317
8 AM7273458
9 AM523101123
10 AM623101134
11 AM152263169
12 PM2324831715
1 PM18361531314
2 PM26251621119
3 PM1647112326
4 PM197794226
5 PM206683326
6 PM124748830
7 PM541136719
8 PM852311449
9 PM15328237615
10 PM4117195916
11 PM321191711
  • Under 10 min
  • 10–19 min
  • 20–39 min
  • 40–59 min
  • 60 min or more

These are CBP’s own averages for October, based on the year before. That month the average wait was 7 min. A dot is an hour the crossing was closed.

By hour of day All days, last 30 days

HourAverageBar
12 AM6 min
1 AM7 min
2 AM5 min
3 AM6 min
4 AM3 min
5 AM5 min
6 AM5 min
7 AM4 min
8 AM8 min
9 AM6 min
10 AM8 min
11 AM8 min
12 PM8 min
1 PM10 min
2 PM6 min
3 PM8 min
4 PM11 min
5 PM8 min
6 PM4 min
7 PM4 min
8 PM8 min
9 PM11 min
10 PM7 min
11 PM7 min

The last 7 days Fri, Oct 23 to Thu, Oct 29

39 min0

Gaps are hours the crossing was closed or posted nothing.

Common questions Buffalo Peace Bridge

How long is the truck wait at the Buffalo Peace Bridge right now?

At CBP’s last reading (Oct 29, 9:37 PM EDT), the standard commercial lanes were at 12 min. The box at the top refreshes from CBP when you open this page.

What’s the best time to cross?

Over the last 30 days, the wait has usually been shortest on Sunday at 4 AM and longest on Sunday at 4 PM. The heat map above shows every hour.

When are the commercial lanes open?

24 hours a day. Up to 8 commercial lanes.

About these numbers

Copied Oct 29, 2026, 9:47 PM Michigan time

Officers at each port of entry post the commercial lanes’ wait about once an hour to CBP’s Border Wait Times system. A small Cloudflare Worker reads it every half hour and keeps each reading once; the last-30-days averages come from that record. The averages from the year before are CBP’s own. FAST lanes are for carriers enrolled in CBP’s FAST program.

Times are the crossing’s local time. A closed lane or a pending reading counts as unknown, never as zero. The board has every crossing right now and how it all works, and the averages are a CSV download.

Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection; readings from September 13 to October 14, 2026 as saved by gptcbp/border-crossing-data. The numbers are public; any mistakes in presenting them are mine.

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