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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 10:00 · 33 min

Weekly pattern of commercial waits — Laredo–Colombia Solidarity International Bridge
Día000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223
Sun3413562113555555
Mon2912182121117107676551
Tue00000000611981198678455422
Wed20151318171615136442100
Thu00000002920332933312518149225200
Fri016151418201712111114987444
Sat0000000033348887700000

Based on 2,241 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: Thu 20:00 · 50 min

Weekly pattern of commercial waits — World Trade International Bridge
Día000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223
Sun0210152730239816232323232323
Mon0029611232422161925293231311816
Tue303030303030642111621353636363448494847424332
Wed000091621343638363745424040402917
Thu1010101010420710162029303228324745495041267
Fri000291721253232252534394040373221
Sat000000000161130332619158860000

Based on 2,684 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.

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