Airports and land borders
How long is the wait right now?
Security queues at 355 US airports, modelled from the flight schedules that cause them, and live wait times at 80 land border crossings straight from CBP. Then the part that actually matters: what time to leave.
How early should you get to the airport?
Most calculators add a fixed buffer and hope. This one uses the security wait actually running at your airport, at the hour you will be standing in it.
Reporting a delay right now
Read straight from the CBP feed, passenger vehicles.
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Passenger (Otay Mesa) 120 min
Passenger vehicles, general lanes
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San Ysidro 120 min
Passenger vehicles, general lanes
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East (Calexico) 90 min
Passenger vehicles, general lanes
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West (Calexico) 90 min
Passenger vehicles, general lanes
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Tecate 90 min
Passenger vehicles, general lanes
Airport security
The longest checkpoint queues in the country right now, each read against its own airport's clock.
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Atlanta (ATL) 27min
Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Usually 20 to 40 at this hour.
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Chicago (ORD) 24min
Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Usually 15 to 35 at this hour.
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Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) 24min
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Usually 15 to 35 at this hour.
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Charlotte (CLT) 23min
Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Usually 15 to 35 at this hour.
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Newark (EWR) 23min
Newark Liberty International Airport. Usually 15 to 35 at this hour.
Is PreCheck worth it?
What the queue you skip is actually worth, against what the pass costs you. Your airports, your trips a year, the minutes each one would really save.
How we work these out
Where the minutes come from, which half is measured and which half is modelled, and what we will not claim about either.
Every other site in this lane answers how long the line is. That is the wrong end of the question. You know when your flight leaves; what you need is the time to walk out of your door, with the queue you will actually meet at the hour you actually get there.