Border waiting time at Hong Kong’s land boundary control points

The Immigration Department’s current passenger queue status at each land boundary control point, for residents and visitors, arriving and departing.

Read from the Immigration Department at 04:01 Hong Kong time.

Passenger queues at land boundary control points
Control pointResidents arrivingResidents departingVisitors arrivingVisitors departing
Heung Yuen WaiClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao BridgeNormalNormalNormalNormal
Lok Ma ChauNormalNormalNormalNormal
Lok Ma Chau Spur LineClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)
Lo WuClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)
Man Kam ToClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)
Shenzhen BayClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)
Sha Tau KokClosed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)Closed (non-service hours)

The Immigration Department publishes passenger queues only. There is no vehicle-queue data in the feed, so this page cannot tell you how long cars, coaches or lorries are waiting.

What each status means

Immigration Department definitions
StatusResidentsVisitors
NormalGenerally less than 15 minutesGenerally less than 30 minutes
BusyGenerally less than 30 minutesGenerally less than 45 minutes
Very busyGenerally 30 minutes or aboveGenerally 45 minutes or above
Under maintenanceThe department’s system is under maintenance; no status is givenSame
ClosedOutside the control point’s service hoursSame

The department publishes a status, not a number of minutes: the ranges above are its own description of each status, and it refreshes the feed about every 15 minutes.

Each control point

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Sources: Transport Department (road speeds, journey-time indicators, special traffic news) and Immigration Department (control point waiting time), via data.gov.hk
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