Tecate border wait times

How long the line is to enter the United States at Tecate, from Tecate, Baja California into Tecate, California, 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 Garita de Tecate.

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Cars, standard lanes: Pending
Cars, SENTRI: Pending
Cars, Ready Lane: Pending
Walking, standard lanes: Pending
Walking, Ready Lane: Pending
Posted by CBP: —

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

Open 6 am to 10 pm, local time. Up to 4 car lanes. Up to 4 pedestrian lanes. CBP port number 250501.

Best and worst times to cross

By car (standard lanes), usually quickest on Wednesday at 9 PM (18 min on average); usually slowest on Sunday at 7 PM (167 min on average).

On foot, usually quickest on Wednesday at 12 PM (4 min); usually slowest on Monday at 6 AM (30 min).

Every lane Now and usually

Lane	Now	Open	Usual	Readings, 30 days
Cars, standard lanes	Pending	—	65 min	321
Cars, SENTRI	Pending	—	—	0
Cars, Ready Lane	Pending	—	—	0
Walking, standard lanes	Pending	—	9 min	321
Walking, Ready Lane	Pending	—	—	0

“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
6 AM	60	60	60	60	73	77	60
7 AM	60	60	65	60	80	95	60
8 AM	68	50	60	70	63	80	60
9 AM	70	63	50	55	60	80	50
10 AM	60	50	50	52	58	83	90
11 AM	70	50	49	50	62	95	70
12 PM	60	60	48	51	47	80	75
1 PM	73	43	45	55	70	95	82
2 PM	73	35	42	66	52	120	105
3 PM	100	30	45	62	90	100	120
4 PM	75	49	40	45	61	120	142
5 PM	77	40	23	31	73	150	140
6 PM	20	30	48	51	100	105	148
7 PM	35	40	27	34	83	100	167
8 PM	45	34	30	33	67	·	165
9 PM	32	30	18	38	45	59	160
10 PM	·	·	30	·	·	·	·

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: 65 min, from 321 readings.

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

Hour	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
6 AM	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
7 AM	30	30	26	22	30	10	20
8 AM	9	15	12	12	18	10	12
9 AM	8	12	10	5	7	10	10
10 AM	10	8	18	5	10	10	10
11 AM	8	8	6	5	8	10	8
12 PM	10	8	4	5	7	7	10
1 PM	10	7	5	5	10	10	8
2 PM	5	5	5	5	7	5	5
3 PM	5	5	5	5	8	5	5
4 PM	5	5	5	5	6	5	5
5 PM	5	5	5	5	7	5	5
6 PM	5	5	5	5	5	5	8
7 PM	5	13	5	5	5	5	8
8 PM	5	5	5	5	5	·	8
9 PM	5	5	5	5	5	5	8
10 PM	·	·	5	·	·	·	·

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
Calexico East	Closed	Closed	—
Calexico West	30 min	5 min	Oct 30, 4:00 AM PDT
Cross Border Express (CBX)	—	No wait	Oct 30, 5:00 AM PDT
Otay Mesa	60 min	No wait	Oct 30, 3:00 AM PDT
San Ysidro	30 min	5 min	Oct 30, 4:00 AM PDT
San Ysidro PedWest	—	Pending	—
Andrade	Pending	Pending	—

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
6 AM	64 min
7 AM	68 min
8 AM	65 min
9 AM	61 min
10 AM	62 min
11 AM	63 min
12 PM	58 min
1 PM	64 min
2 PM	62 min
3 PM	76 min
4 PM	77 min
5 PM	71 min
6 PM	74 min
7 PM	66 min
8 PM	66 min
9 PM	55 min
10 PM	30 min

The last 7 days Cars, standard lanes · Thu, Oct 22 to Thu, Oct 29

270 min0

Gaps are hours the lane was closed or posted nothing.

Common questions Tecate

How long is the wait at Tecate right now?

CBP posted no wait at its last reading. 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 Wednesday at 9 PM and longest on Sunday at 7 PM. On foot it’s usually shortest on Wednesday at 12 PM. The heat map above shows every hour.

When is it open?

6 am to 10 pm, local time.

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.