Calgary traffic count data for business
The City of Calgary publishes live camera images. It doesn’t publish or keep vehicle counts from them. We’ve counted every camera, every minute, since March 2026, and kept all of it.
What exists today
What the count archive holds today: cameras, time windows, rows kept, growth, derived measures and context.
| Cameras | 221 City of Calgary traffic cameras, tagged by corridor, community and quadrant |
|---|---|
| Granularity | 5-minute windows per camera: average cars, trucks and buses in view, min and max, frames sampled, capture rate |
| History | 9.8 million rows on the current model since May 1, 2026; 1.9 million earlier rows on a lighter model since March 30, 2026 (kept separate, not mixed) |
| Growth | About 431,000 new rows a week |
| Derived | Busy-vs-normal by camera and corridor (same weekday and hour, trailing 8 weeks); typical hour-by-hour profiles by weekday |
| Context | 65,700 City traffic incidents since December 2016; per-community weather, hourly |
Sample: one week on Deerfoot Trail
Three Deerfoot Trail cameras, every 5-minute window for one week, as a CSV you can open.
Memorial Drive, 32 Avenue NE and 47 Avenue SE, every 5-minute window from Monday September 15 to Sunday September 21, 2026: 6,039 rows.
Columns: window start (local time), camera, location, average cars / trucks / buses / all vehicles in view, min and max vehicles in view, frames sampled, capture rate.
Who this is for
The three kinds of buyer the counts serve, with the question each one brings.
- Site selection and commercial real estate: how busy the roads next to a site are, by hour and weekday, and how that is changing.
- Logistics and delivery: when each corridor is typically congested, and how often it is worse than normal.
- Media and research: before-and-after comparisons around road projects, events, weather and holidays.
What to know before you use it
Three things that shape how the counts should be read: density, model limits and history length.
- These are vehicles in view (density), not vehicles per hour. Stopped traffic shows more vehicles than free-flowing traffic.
- Counts come from a computer-vision model on camera images. Obstructed, dark or weather-blurred frames undercount; the capture-rate column shows how many frames were usable.
- History starts in March 2026. Seasonal comparisons get stronger every month.
Get access
Historical counts by camera, corridor and hour, as CSV extracts or an API.
Tell us what you’re trying to answer and we’ll send a sample for your area: [email protected].