Heading off the Cape
typicalTypical Sunday · Sagamore Bridge → Boston
| 6a | 7a | 8a | 9a | 10a | 11a | 12p | 1p | 2p | 3p | 4p | 5p | 6p | 7p | 8p | 9p | |
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Source: Google Routes API · colour shows delay vs the 1:02 clear-road baseline (same scale for every origin) · dashed cells are pattern estimates. Hover any cell for readings by date.
Live conditions right now
Current Drive Time to Boston · Return
The shape of each day · Sagamore Bridge → Boston · June
dashed = clear road 1:02Sunday
Peaks mid-morning at 1:33
Monday
5P spike to 1:51 — the week's worst
Typical Sunday, hour by hour · Sagamore Bridge → Boston
same colours as the weekly gridThe readings log
Show me between and , , on over , .
| When | Route | Duration vs clear |
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Where these numbers come from
Live readings
Google Routes API, polled every 15 minutes from — origins.
Logged history
— readings stored — every one browsable below.
Typical patterns
90-day curves fill the gaps — shown faded until live data confirms them.
Read the full methodology
- Live — Real-time Google reading (5+ samples this hour)
- Calibrated — Learned multiplier from 90-day history
- Estimated — Static baseline — no live data yet
Best Time to Leave Cape Cod
The drive home is the hard part. The classic Sunday-afternoon return stacks up at the bridges from early afternoon on — leave before it or ride it out after. Here is the typical heading-home pattern by hour.
On a typical Sunday, the calmest window is around 8 PM (~62 min) and the worst is around 10 AM (~93 min — about 50% over a clear run).