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US Customs and Border Protection

US Ports of Entry Border Wait Times

OpenL3Data productHuman mobilityLogistics

Current wait times and open lanes at US land ports of entry, reported separately for commercial vehicles, passenger vehicles and pedestrians, and updated through the day. A near-real-time indicator of the flow of people and goods at each crossing.

Administrative and port records
Category
Human mobility
Update cadence
1 h
Latency
1 h
Archive
2010 – present
Instruments
Statistical reporting
Sources
Administrative and port records
Formats
HTML, XML
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/cbp-border-wait-times

Access

Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.

Access endpoints

  • https
    https://bwt.cbp.gov/
    CBP Border Wait Times

Licence

U.S. Government Public Domain

No restrictions on use; citation requested.

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