Statistics Canada has released its cross-border travel data for March 2026.

For the month of March 2026, Canadian-resident return trips by air from the U.S. were down 13.8% year over year.

Meanwhile Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries showed another increase, by 4.9% for a total of 1.5 million, compared to March 2025.

Since we’re now more than a year into the cross-border Canada-to-U.S. declines, the year-over-year differentials are narrowing amid the ‘new normal.’

Canada-to-USA car travel decline: 35% in 2 years

Canadian-resident return trips by automobile dropped 4.5% in March 2026 compared to March 2025.

Comparing the March 2026 Canadian-resident return trips from the U.S. by car stats with the same stats in March 2024, the drop was just shy of 35%.

For the third consecutive month, a greater number of Canadian residents returned from overseas by air (1.5 million in March) than from the U.S. by car (1.4 million in March).