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Buffalo Peace Bridge border wait times

How long the line is to enter the United States at Buffalo Peace Bridge, from Fort Erie, Ontario into Buffalo, New York, by car, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection posts it, and the hours it’s usually shortest.

Cars, standard lanes
2 min
Cars, NEXUS
No wait
Cars, Ready Lane
Closed
Posted by CBP
Oct 30, 7:37 AM EDT

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 17 car 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

By car (standard lanes), usually quickest on Tuesday at 3 AM (no wait); usually slowest on Sunday at 12 AM (52 min on average).

Every lane Now and usually

LaneNowOpenUsualReadings, 30 days
Cars, standard lanes2 min18 min778
Cars, NEXUSNo wait22 min555
Cars, Ready LaneClosed—0 min CBP0

“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. NEXUS 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

HourMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
12 AM62269852
1 AM83866412
2 AM21132212
3 AM30234314
4 AM4124522
5 AM5324576
6 AM313210410
7 AM323210125
8 AM1429518366
9 AM232111062714
10 AM734833012
11 AM5571073114
12 PM14458123821
1 PM14574153218
2 PM7255101313
3 PM3445131024
4 PM94614101021
5 PM53713101321
6 PM8268101019
7 PM3656121010
8 PM3861811163
9 PM3541111307
10 PM324616335
11 PM222610413
  • 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: 8 min, from 778 readings.

Nearby crossings right now If this one is backed up

CrossingBy carOn footPosted
Lewiston–Queenston Bridge 5 min — Oct 30, 7:37 AM EDT
Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge 7 min Closed Oct 30, 7:37 AM EDT

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

HourAverageBar
12 AM10 min
1 AM7 min
2 AM3 min
3 AM4 min
4 AM3 min
5 AM4 min
6 AM5 min
7 AM5 min
8 AM12 min
9 AM13 min
10 AM9 min
11 AM10 min
12 PM12 min
1 PM13 min
2 PM7 min
3 PM8 min
4 PM10 min
5 PM10 min
6 PM8 min
7 PM7 min
8 PM10 min
9 PM9 min
10 PM9 min
11 PM8 min

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

48 min0

Gaps are hours the lane was closed or posted nothing.

Common questions Buffalo Peace Bridge

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

At CBP’s last reading (Oct 30, 7:37 AM EDT), the line by car (standard lanes) was 2 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 3 AM and longest on Sunday at 12 AM. The heat map above shows every hour.

How much time does NEXUS save?

Over the last 30 days the NEXUS line averaged 2 min, against 8 min in the standard lanes.

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.

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.

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