How long is the wait at Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge right now?

As of 23:00 UTC, October 17, 2026, CBP posts a 3-minute wait for standard passenger vehicles at Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge, with 6 of 16 lanes open. This page refreshes every two minutes.

What are the hours at the Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge border crossing?

CBP lists Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge as open 24 hrs/day (Eastern time).

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Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge border wait time

Canadian border, New York. Live CBP-posted waits by lane, refreshed every 10 minutes.

Passenger vehicles, standard

3 min

lanes open: 6 of 16

Pedestrians, standard

Lanes closed

lanes open: –

as of 23:00 UTC, October 17, 2026 · CBP feed stamp 2026-10-17 18:55:55 · auto-refreshes every two minutes with JavaScript on

Hours: 24 hrs/day · port status: Open · Canadian border, New York · local time zone: Eastern

Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge (New York) has a CBP-posted wait of 3 minutes for standard passenger vehicles as of 23:00 UTC, October 17, 2026, with 6 of 16 lanes open.
Hours of operation: 24 hrs/day (Eastern time); port status Open.
Wait Time Report has tracked this crossing for 45 days, sampling CBP every 10 minutes.

Lanes right now

Lane	Posted wait	Lanes open	CBP posted at
Passenger vehicles, standard	3 min	6 of 16	At 6:47 pm EDT
Pedestrians, standard	Lanes closed	–	–

"CBP posted at" is CBP's own stamp, shown as published; its time-zone label is not reliable for every port. This crossing keeps Eastern time (America/New_York).

Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Wait Times, bwt.cbp.gov (public domain).

A typical day at this crossing

Passenger vehicles, standard

Average posted wait by hour (Eastern local time), from 45 days of our tracking.

Between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. local time, across the 45 days we have tracked, CBP's posted standard passenger-vehicle wait here has averaged lowest around 7 p.m. (5 minutes) and highest around 11 a.m. (13 minutes).

Other Buffalo-Niagara Falls crossings

Standard passenger-vehicle wait at each, live.

Buffalo Peace Bridge 3 min
Niagara Falls Lewiston Bridge 0 min
Niagara Falls Whirlpool Bridge Update pending

Other New York crossings

Alexandria Bay Thousand Islands Bridge 0 min
Champlain 0 min
Massena 0 min
Ogdensburg 0 min

About these numbers

CBP officers at the port estimate the wait from the end of the line to primary inspection and post it, usually hourly; the figure is for travelers entering the United States. See all border crossings for how to read each status, and CBP's own bwt.cbp.gov for alerts. Numbers baked into this page are from 23:00 UTC, October 17, 2026.