What time is the border shortest?
It's the most searched question about the border. Here's why no app can answer it well yet, ours included, and what we can tell you today.
ReadSan Ysidro · to San Diego
General
1 h 40
About normal — 1 hour 33 minutes ago
8 lanes open
Ready Lane
1 h 30
≈ About normal — 1 hour 33 minutes ago
10 lanes open
SENTRI
15min
≈ About normal — 1 hour 33 minutes ago
12 lanes open
On foot · East
1 h
Heavier than usual — 1 hour 33 minutes ago
21 of 22 lanes open
On foot · PedWest
Open 6 am-2 pm
CBP posted this number at 12:00 PM, 1 hour 33 minutes ago. They update once an hour, so this is the newest one there is. Here, and on any other site you check.
Heads up: this number is 93 minutes old. CBP hasn't posted again since 12:00 PM. A lot can change in 93 minutes — the line could be half an hour longer or shorter by now. Treat it as a rough idea, not as right now.
Tap it and this port opens first next time. Saved on your phone.
Otay Mesa · to San Diego
General
1 h
Better than usual
3 lanes open
Ready Lane
45min
≈ Better than usual
4 lanes open
SENTRI
20min
≈ About normal
4 lanes open
On foot
5min
Better than usual
6 of 6 lanes open
CBP posted this number at 1:00 PM, 33 minutes ago. They update once an hour, so this is the newest one there is. Here, and on any other site you check.
Tap it and this port opens first next time. Saved on your phone.
Tecate · to San Diego
General
40min
Better than usual
2 lanes open
Ready Lane
—
Not available
SENTRI
—
Not available
On foot
5min
Better than usual
3 of 4 lanes open
CBP posted this number at 1:00 PM, 33 minutes ago. They update once an hour, so this is the newest one there is. Here, and on any other site you check.
Tap it and this port opens first next time. Saved on your phone.
Advertisement · 1080 × 420 px · monthly contract
Advertise here
We're still small — and it's exactly the people you want: folks in Tijuana about to cross. Want in before it grows? Get in touch.
Hecho en Tijuana, por alguien que se forma en la misma línea que tú.
Every port
Right now Tecate looks best. 40 minutes in General against 1 hour and 1 hour 40 minutes. From CBP's 1:00 PM reading. It can change.
Better than usual better than a normal day
About normal a normal day
Heavier than usual worse than a normal day
The colors for General and On foot are measured with three and a half years of data. For Ready Lane and SENTRI the color is a reference, not a measurement — we mark those with a ≈ so you know which is which.
San Ysidro
General
1 h 40About normal
Ready
1 h 30≈ About normal
SENTRI
15min≈ About normal
On foot
1 hHeavier than usual
Otay Mesa
General
1 hBetter than usual
Ready
45min≈ Better than usual
SENTRI
20min≈ About normal
On foot
5minBetter than usual
Tecate
best right nowGeneral
40minBetter than usual
Ready
Not available
SENTRI
Not available
On foot
5minBetter than usual
How the line behaves by day
Average of three and a half years of CBP data, San Ysidro General lane, northbound. This is history, not a prediction.
Friday averages 31 minutes less than Sunday. Almost nobody knows that — everyone assumes Friday is hopeless.
Advertisement
Ad space
What the data says
Friday is the best day to cross at San Ysidro
We measured three and a half years of CBP data. Friday averages 71 minutes and Sunday averages 102. That's half an hour, and almost nobody knows it.
ReadIf you cross on foot, forget what you know about the car line
On foot the worst day is Saturday; in a car it's Sunday. And the best on foot is Thursday, not Friday. Two different lines with two different patterns.
ReadHow often we get it right
We don't get anything right yet, because we don't predict anything yet. And we'd rather tell you that before you ask.
What we have been doing since day one: saving every number CBP posts, every 5 minutes.
2,883 readings saved · 45 days measuring
We ask CBP every 5 minutes. In 45 days it has given us 2,883 different numbers — about 63 a day. CBP posts once an hour: that's the limit, and it isn't ours.
The day we start predicting, this is where you'll see how often we were right and by how many minutes we were off — whether it goes well or badly. And you'll be able to check the full history, because we're saving it from before we promised you anything.
See the accuracy pageAdvertisement
Ad space
What's missing from BuenCruce?
Write to us — we read it. And we mean a person reads it, not a bot.
Send us an emailIt goes straight to hola@buencruce.com. No account, no sign-up, no form that eats what you wrote.
Buy us a coffee?
BuenCruce is made by one person in Tijuana, and it runs on what people chip in and on the ads on this page. If it's been useful and you want to help, it's much appreciated.
PayPal and Mercado Pago links go here once the accounts exist.