Getting onto the Cape
typicalTypical Saturday · Plymouth → Sagamore Bridge
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Source: Google Routes API · colour shows delay vs the 0:26 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 Sagamore Bridge
The shape of each day · Plymouth → Sagamore Bridge · June
dashed = clear road 0:26Thursday
10A spike to 0:48 — the week's worst
Friday
Peaks mid-afternoon at 0:42
Saturday
Peaks mid-afternoon at 0:46
Typical Saturday, hour by hour · Plymouth → Sagamore 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
Plymouth to Cape Cod Traffic
Plymouth sits right at the top of Route 3, minutes from the Sagamore — but when the bridge backs up, even this short hop slows to a crawl. Here is when the approach is clear and when to wait it out.
On a typical Saturday, the calmest window is around 6 AM (~26 min) and the worst is around 3 PM (~46 min — about 77% over a clear run).