US-Mexico border · northbound

Live border wait times

From CBP · connecting…

California & Arizona corridor · sorted by wait

Notes

Waits shown are for standard passenger vehicle lanes, US-bound. Tap any port for Ready Lane, SENTRI, pedestrian, and historical patterns.

Green < 30 min · Amber 30–75 · Red 75+

Which US-Mexico border crossing is fastest right now?

That's what this page answers. Every port on this list pulls live data from the official CBP feed and shows current wait for standard passenger vehicles. Tap any entry to see Ready Lane, SENTRI, and pedestrian waits, plus today's typical pattern.

For the San Diego / Tijuana corridor, the three choices are San Ysidro (busiest, I-5 / I-805), Otay Mesa (east side, often 30–60 minutes faster during peak), and Tecate (rural, rarely more than 30 minutes). For the Imperial Valley, Calexico West is the 24-hour urban crossing and Calexico East handles most commercial traffic.

How the data gets here

The source is CBP's public XML feed at bwt.cbp.gov. Our infrastructure pulls it every 60 seconds, parses it, and caches the result at the edge so your page loads in under 400ms anywhere in the world. No login, no app, nothing to install.

Why this is faster than the official site

CBP's site is the source of truth — and it's also slow, cluttered, and not mobile-optimized. This site exists to show the same numbers in a format that actually works from the driver's seat.