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Laredo border wait times: the weekly freight pattern
When the World Trade Bridge and Colombia Solidarity are actually busy, by weekday and hour, from readings collected every 20 minutes since June 2026. Built for freight, not passenger traffic.
Laredo is the largest commercial gateway on the US–Mexico border, and almost every wait-time page treats it as one number. It is not. Freight crosses at two of the four Laredo bridges, and the two behave differently through the week. The grids below show when each one is actually busy, using our own readings rather than a single live figure.
Weekly pattern of commercial waits
Average wait by weekday and hour at Laredo–Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, from our own readings collected every 20 minutes over the last 8 weeks. Local port time.
Heaviest hour of the week: Thu 14:00 · 30 min
| Día | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Mon | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tue | 3 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 27 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||
| Wed | 5 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| Thu | 9 | 12 | 16 | 22 | 25 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| Fri | 4 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 25 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Sat | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Based on 2,242 readings. Blank cells are hours with no reported commercial wait, usually outside operating hours.
Weekly pattern of commercial waits
Average wait by weekday and hour at World Trade International Bridge, from our own readings collected every 20 minutes over the last 8 weeks. Local port time.
Heaviest hour of the week: Mon 20:00 · 54 min
| Día | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 6 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | ||||||||
| Mon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 26 | 31 | 31 | 43 | 46 | 49 | 54 | 50 | 45 | 28 | |||||
| Tue | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 29 | 30 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 46 | 22 | |||||
| Wed | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 25 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 37 | 41 | 45 | 49 | 47 | 44 | 43 | 15 | |||||
| Thu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 30 | 33 | 42 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 43 | 24 | 18 | |||||
| Fri | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 33 | 37 | 39 | 36 | 34 | 50 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 50 | 39 | 15 | ||||||
| Sat | 4 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 28 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 30 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Based on 2,634 readings. Blank cells are hours with no reported commercial wait, usually outside operating hours.
Why the two bridges diverge
The World Trade Bridge carries the bulk of Laredo's truck traffic and is the default for most carriers, which is exactly why it absorbs the congestion. Colombia Solidarity sits further upriver, takes longer to reach by road, and is consistently lighter. That trade-off is the entire decision: the drive to Colombia costs time that the shorter queue may or may not return, and the answer changes by weekday and hour rather than being fixed. Read both grids against your own departure window instead of assuming one bridge is always faster.
What this is and is not
These are averages of CBP's own published estimates, collected every 20 minutes since June 16, 2026 and grouped by weekday and hour in local port time. They describe a pattern, not a forecast, and they cannot account for an incident, a holiday, an inspection surge or a system outage on the day you cross. Blank cells are hours with no reported commercial wait, which usually means the crossing is outside its operating hours rather than empty.
For the live figure, and for the Mexican-side context that determines whether your load clears at all, use the Spanish radar page, which updates through the day.
Source and method
Data: CBP Border Wait Times (public feed). CBP provides these as estimates. This page is an independent editorial interpretation operated by Heberey LLC and is not an official CBP page.
Full methodology, including the verified bridge registry and the thresholds used: read the methodology.
Related
- Live Laredo radar (Spanish)
- Pharr–Reynosa border wait times
- How to choose a Mexican customs broker in Laredo
- Laredo cross-docking for Mexico–US freight
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