Brownsville B&M Bridge border wait times

How long the line is to enter the United States at Brownsville B&M Bridge, from Matamoros, Tamaulipas into Brownsville, Texas, by car and on foot, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection posts it, and the hours it’s usually shortest. In Mexico it’s called Puente Viejo (B&M).

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Cars, standard lanes: 105 min
Cars, Ready Lane: 105 min
Walking, standard lanes: 10 min
Posted by CBP: Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT

Copied Oct 30, 2026, 7:48 AM Michigan time. With JavaScript on, the waits above refresh from CBP when the page opens.

Open 24 hours. Up to 4 car lanes. Up to 2 pedestrian lanes. CBP port number 535501.

CBP’s notice: Pedestrian access closes at 10:00 PM and reopens at 6:00 AM, seven days a week.

Best and worst times to cross

By car (standard lanes), usually quickest on Tuesday at 2 AM (no wait); usually slowest on Saturday at 7 PM (160 min on average).

On foot, usually quickest on Tuesday at 5 PM (no wait); usually slowest on Thursday at 9 AM (30 min).

Every lane Now and usually

Lane	Now	Open	Usual	Readings, 30 days
Cars, standard lanes	105 min	2	49 min	467
Cars, Ready Lane	105 min	2	54 min	333
Walking, standard lanes	10 min	2	6 min	353

“Usual” is the average over the last 30 days; where it says CBP, it’s CBP’s own published average for October, from the year before, because there aren’t enough readings here yet. SENTRI is CBP’s trusted-traveler lane; the Ready Lane is for travelers carrying an RFID-enabled document (a passport card, a border crossing card, an enhanced driver’s license). First reading on record: Sep 14, 2026.

By car: usual wait by day and hour Cars, standard lanes, last 30 days, minutes

Hour	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
12 AM	·	·	5	5	·	·	·
1 AM	40	5	2	14	9	52	45
2 AM	38	0	4	6	12	32	125
3 AM	25	12	12	5	18	23	105
4 AM	20	15	19	24	12	12	52
5 AM	45	25	48	56	22	22	25
6 AM	53	42	75	82	84	35	12
7 AM	38	60	66	68	90	18	5
8 AM	42	45	64	63	37	22	12
9 AM	25	52	60	90	30	20	32
10 AM	39	65	56	61	43	22	52
11 AM	60	65	55	68	59	45	45
12 PM	70	80	56	105	45	42	48
1 PM	63	105	51	80	45	40	52
2 PM	90	93	64	61	48	59	70
3 PM	90	100	60	52	58	52	59
4 PM	70	100	54	43	82	80	53
5 PM	67	50	60	76	80	90	102
6 PM	68	38	23	23	46	105	98
7 PM	47	25	20	15	33	160	85
8 PM	45	15	12	40	42	75	82
9 PM	22	15	13	35	37	50	100
10 PM	20	28	12	5	23	90	100
11 PM	2	2	2	2	18	82	60

Under 10 min
10–29 min
30–59 min
60–89 min
90 min or more

A dot is an hour with no readings: the lane 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. Average over the last 30 days: 49 min, from 467 readings.

On foot: usual wait by day and hour Walking, standard lanes, last 30 days, minutes

Hour	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
5 AM	·	·	0	·	·	·	·
6 AM	7	5	2	0	6	0	3
7 AM	13	22	11	20	7	0	0
8 AM	5	22	14	22	5	12	0
9 AM	12	8	28	30	5	5	1
10 AM	8	15	7	14	3	5	4
11 AM	5	13	5	12	5	7	5
12 PM	5	5	5	4	3	8	5
1 PM	3	5	4	3	2	18	4
2 PM	2	5	4	4	7	18	5
3 PM	5	10	2	5	17	5	4
4 PM	1	3	6	8	11	25	3
5 PM	7	0	2	3	15	5	2
6 PM	2	4	1	1	3	2	5
7 PM	2	0	1	1	2	5	2
8 PM	2	0	0	1	2	0	2
9 PM	2	0	0	1	0	2	2
10 PM	·	·	0	0	·	·	·
11 PM	·	·	0	·	·	·	·

Under 10 min
10–29 min
30–59 min
60–89 min
90 min or more

Nearby crossings right now If this one is backed up

Crossing	By car	On foot	Posted
Brownsville Gateway Bridge	45 min	10 min	Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT
Brownsville Veterans International Bridge	10 min	5 min	Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT
Brownsville – Los Indios	9 min	—	Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT

By car and on foot: each crossing’s main lane, nearly always the standard lanes.

By car, by hour of day All days, last 30 days

Hour	Average	Bar
12 AM	5 min
1 AM	20 min
2 AM	24 min
3 AM	25 min
4 AM	22 min
5 AM	39 min
6 AM	56 min
7 AM	54 min
8 AM	43 min
9 AM	48 min
10 AM	50 min
11 AM	58 min
12 PM	67 min
1 PM	63 min
2 PM	67 min
3 PM	65 min
4 PM	69 min
5 PM	79 min
6 PM	57 min
7 PM	56 min
8 PM	48 min
9 PM	42 min
10 PM	35 min
11 PM	23 min

The last 7 days Cars, standard lanes · Fri, Oct 23 to Fri, Oct 30

150 min0

Gaps are hours the lane was closed or posted nothing.

Common questions Brownsville B&M Bridge

How long is the wait at Brownsville B&M Bridge right now?

At CBP’s last reading (Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT), the line by car (standard lanes) was 105 min, and on foot 10 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 car line has usually been shortest on Tuesday at 2 AM and longest on Saturday at 7 PM. On foot it’s usually shortest on Tuesday at 5 PM. The heat map above shows every hour.

Is the Ready Lane faster?

Over the last 30 days the Ready Lane averaged 54 min, against 49 min in the standard lanes. It’s for cars where every traveler carries an RFID-enabled document.

When is it open?

24 hours a day.

For trucks, the commercial lane waits have a board of their own.

About these numbers

Copied Oct 30, 2026, 7:48 AM Michigan time

Officers at each port of entry post every lane’s 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.

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 data is a CSV download. Esta página en español.

Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection; readings from September 13 to October 20, 2026 as saved by gptcbp/border-crossing-data. The numbers are public; any mistakes in presenting them are mine.