If you got stuck in the crowd this past weekend crossing into Hong Kong, your misery helped make history.

A record-high 157,600 people passed through the Shenzhen Bay exit-entry port on December 20, the fifth time this year the border crossing has set a new record.

Mainlanders are apparently flooding into Hong Kong because of the Christmas sales, with 94,000 crossing into the special administrative region on Saturday alone. The previous record was set just a week before on December 14 when 147,000 people passed through the checkpoint.

So if you want to head to Hong Kong, what time should you go to avoid crowds? Statistics say the only time of the day that didn’t experience a surge of travelers was between 1pm and 3pm. Outside of that, expect huge crowds. With Christmas and the New Year holiday coming up, it might make more sense to stay home.

Photo: Shenzhen Traffic Police