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Easy Boundary: how to check the waiting time at the Hong Kong crossings

Updated 9 November 2026

Queue guesses are common and mostly invented. Easy Boundary is the official alternative, and it is worth ten seconds before you leave. This page explains what it shows and how to use it.

What is Easy Boundary?

The Security Bureau launched it on 22 September 2025. The status page shows a Normal, Busy or Very Busy light for the boundary control points, based on rough average waiting-time estimates, refreshed every 15 minutes. It is integrated with links to iPort, the mainland's real-time clearance information, so it points you to Shenzhen-side information and does not display it itself. Easy Boundary once included the Lok Ma Chau to Huanggang Yellow Bus. That service ended on 12 October 2026, when the new Huanggang Port opened; the government's reply to a LegCo question says the shuttle would no longer be needed.

How do I read it?

• Open the page before you leave and note the light for the crossing you plan to use.
• If it is Busy or Very Busy, check another crossing that suits your route, using the hours in which crossing should I use.
• Check again shortly before you reach the port, since it refreshes every 15 minutes.

It gives estimates, not guarantees, and we have not seen the government publish queue lengths for each colour, so ignore figures you may see quoted for them.

Other sources

The Immigration Department also publishes passenger counts as open data, which is useful for seeing which days were busy afterwards, as in our page on Golden Week 2026. The Security Bureau's paper to LegCo says an upgraded Easy Boundary 2.0, with a real-time image function and AI assessment, is planned for the fourth quarter of 2026. For general timing advice, see best time to cross, and for the 24-hour port, the new Huanggang Port.