How long does it take to cross the Canadian boarder?

Some friends and I are going up to Vancouver in a couple weeks and I wondered how long it takes.
I'm trying to plan the trip and wanted to figure out when we'll get to the hotel and such. We should hit the boarder around 3pm.

A lot depends on the time of day and how many vehicles are ahead of you.

Try this website:

http://www.borderlineups.com/

Going, about 5 minutes...coming back....is a tad bit harder!!

With the new passport requirement there's a greater chance of delays but from what I've heard so far it hasn't had a huge impact. You should be pretty good at 3pm but don't go much later or you'll run into a number of people who are returning home from their jobs in the US. Most likely, you'll get asked a couple of questions and then waved over (assuming you have a passport).

Depends how many cars in front of you, usually it takes me anywhere from 20-30 minutes, waiting for other cars to pass through. Then talking to the border patrol takes about 5 minutes helps if you have all your documentation out and ready and you tell them what you are planning on doing/where your going. As long as there is nothing suspicious then 5 minutes should be about it.

As others have said, it really depends on time of day and season. Since it will not yet be tourist season, that will help. I have crossed the border both ways many times, and it took a long time only once, and that was on the east coast at the Calais/St. Stephen border crossing. Mostly it takes from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, rarely more than that.