Brownsville Gateway Bridge border wait times

How long the line is to enter the United States at Brownsville Gateway 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 Nuevo (Gateway).

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Cars, standard lanes: 45 min
Cars, Ready Lane: 45 min
Walking, standard lanes: 10 min
Walking, Ready Lane: 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 5 car lanes. Up to 4 pedestrian lanes. CBP port number 535504.

CBP’s notice: The Pedestrian Dedicated Ready Lane is now operational at Gateway Bridge and may be used with a valid U.S. passport or SENTRI card.

Best and worst times to cross

By car (standard lanes), usually quickest on Tuesday at 1 AM (no wait); usually slowest on Tuesday at 5 PM (207 min on average).

On foot, usually quickest on Monday at 2 AM (no wait); usually slowest on Wednesday at 11 AM (38 min).

Every lane Now and usually

Lane	Now	Open	Usual	Readings, 30 days
Cars, standard lanes	45 min	2	38 min	488
Cars, Ready Lane	45 min	2	42 min	302
Walking, standard lanes	10 min	1	11 min	478
Walking, Ready Lane	10 min	1	3 min	389

“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	·	·	10	·	·	·	60
1 AM	38	0	5	5	14	40	60
2 AM	16	0	2	4	6	30	100
3 AM	12	8	4	15	5	25	60
4 AM	10	22	11	24	13	12	20
5 AM	30	22	37	48	45	27	18
6 AM	43	60	51	75	71	14	5
7 AM	52	52	58	72	65	15	2
8 AM	73	52	35	59	52	20	8
9 AM	50	45	30	44	60	35	45
10 AM	30	55	43	40	43	48	32
11 AM	63	75	20	36	39	42	30
12 PM	70	60	46	31	30	35	30
1 PM	60	28	41	48	27	60	45
2 PM	50	58	41	41	33	49	50
3 PM	100	62	60	22	43	40	55
4 PM	76	52	69	39	38	40	45
5 PM	53	207	37	21	38	90	57
6 PM	65	41	31	20	40	68	69
7 PM	47	32	22	24	25	100	48
8 PM	58	50	20	12	25	105	62
9 PM	18	48	16	9	42	68	75
10 PM	20	25	8	2	17	90	58
11 PM	2	11	1	0	4	45	43

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: 38 min, from 488 readings.

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

Hour	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
12 AM	·	·	0	·	·	·	·
1 AM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 AM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3 AM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4 AM	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
5 AM	0	0	2	6	1	2	0
6 AM	10	8	21	10	11	4	0
7 AM	12	15	18	31	10	2	0
8 AM	12	10	20	29	13	15	0
9 AM	10	22	31	19	5	22	8
10 AM	6	25	31	25	23	10	5
11 AM	3	17	38	24	19	35	5
12 PM	7	5	28	34	37	32	8
1 PM	8	5	30	34	27	18	4
2 PM	15	23	21	25	12	20	5
3 PM	90	8	12	2	22	5	6
4 PM	23	20	22	22	10	8	4
5 PM	25	22	33	8	17	12	2
6 PM	18	22	16	2	14	10	11
7 PM	13	3	14	2	3	3	7
8 PM	3	0	2	0	3	2	12
9 PM	2	0	1	1	3	0	2
10 PM	2	0	1	1	2	0	3
11 PM	0	0	1	0	2	0	2

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 B&M Bridge	105 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	35 min
1 AM	17 min
2 AM	17 min
3 AM	16 min
4 AM	16 min
5 AM	35 min
6 AM	48 min
7 AM	51 min
8 AM	43 min
9 AM	42 min
10 AM	41 min
11 AM	43 min
12 PM	43 min
1 PM	44 min
2 PM	45 min
3 PM	52 min
4 PM	52 min
5 PM	66 min
6 PM	45 min
7 PM	41 min
8 PM	42 min
9 PM	35 min
10 PM	23 min
11 PM	11 min

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

470 min0

Gaps are hours the lane was closed or posted nothing.

Common questions Brownsville Gateway Bridge

How long is the wait at Brownsville Gateway Bridge right now?

At CBP’s last reading (Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT), the line by car (standard lanes) was 45 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 1 AM and longest on Tuesday at 5 PM. On foot it’s usually shortest on Monday at 2 AM. The heat map above shows every hour.

Is the Ready Lane faster?

Over the last 30 days the Ready Lane averaged 42 min, against 38 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.