Getting onto the Cape
typicalTypical Saturday · Hartford → Bourne Bridge
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Source: Google Routes API · colour shows delay vs the 1:59 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 Bourne Bridge
The shape of each day · Hartford → Bourne Bridge · June
dashed = clear road 1:59Thursday
10A spike to 4:06 — the week's worst
Friday
Peaks mid-afternoon at 2:36
Saturday
Peaks mid-afternoon at 3:54
Typical Saturday, hour by hour · Hartford → Bourne Bridge
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
Hartford to Cape Cod Traffic
From Hartford you come across on I-84 and the Mass Pike before dropping down to Route 25 and the Bourne Bridge. Here is what the Cape-side approach typically does, hour by hour.
On a typical Saturday, the calmest window is around 6 AM (~119 min) and the worst is around 3 PM (~234 min — about 97% over a clear run).