Californias Great America
vs
Six Flags Fiesta Texas

On a typical day Six Flags Fiesta Texas queues less: about 21 minutes a ride against 42 at Californias Great America, a difference of roughly 21 minutes on every queue you join.

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01 · On a typical day

What you would normally queue.

Averages across recent weeks, so one broken ride or one wet Tuesday cannot decide it. This is the comparison to plan a trip on; the live figures below are the one to act on today.

Californias Great America and Six Flags Fiesta Texas compared on their typical recorded queue times
Typically	Californias Great AmericaUnited States	Six Flags Fiesta TexasUnited States
Average wait per ride	42 min	21 min (best of the two)
Rides with recorded waits	13	20 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue	Tiki Twirl78 min	Iron Rattler51 min
Shortest typical queue	Whitewater Falls6 min	Hurricane Force 55 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running	Not recorded	67%

Averaged across every ride at each park with recorded waits. A ride that never opened is left out, so a park is not flattered by counting a shut ride as a queue of zero.

02 · Right now

Both parks, this minute.

Live queue times at both parks. These fill in as soon as the page loads, and keep updating while you are here.

Californias Great America and Six Flags Fiesta Texas compared on live queue times
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These keep refreshing while this page is open. A closed park posts no waits, so its rows read as dashes rather than zeroes.

Verdict, on a typical day On a typical day Six Flags Fiesta Texas queues less: about 21 minutes a ride against 42 at Californias Great America, a difference of roughly 21 minutes on every queue you join.

03 · Choosing

Which one is your day out.

Every line here is earned by one of the figures above - nothing is a generic sentence with a park name dropped into it.

Pick Californias Great America if…

You will accept a longer queue - 42 minutes a ride here against 21 at Six Flags Fiesta Texas - for what Californias Great America has that Six Flags Fiesta Texas does not
Tiki Twirl is on your list - it is Californias Great America's longest typical queue at about 78 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Californias Great America's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Fiesta Texas if…

You want shorter queues: Six Flags Fiesta Texas averages 21 minutes a ride against 42 at Californias Great America
You want more to do: 20 rides here have recorded wait data against 13 at Californias Great America
Iron Rattler is on your list - it is Six Flags Fiesta Texas's longest typical queue at about 51 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags Fiesta Texas's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Californias Great America

California's Great America sits in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's a mid-sized park with a solid coaster line-up: Gold Striker (a highly-rated GCI wooden coaster), RailBlazer (a single-rail raptor coaster), Flight Deck inverted coaster, and The Demon. A Boomerang Bay water park operates on the same site in the summer.

Bay Area locals keep Great America steady year-round, with US school holidays and the WinterFest event driving the biggest crowds. Weekdays in April, May and September are dramatically quieter. Check live wait times for Gold Striker and RailBlazer on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a quieter day - the park has been undergoing ownership and site changes that can affect operating patterns.

Californias Great America live queue times

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Six Flags Fiesta Texas sits in a former limestone quarry in San Antonio, Texas - one of the most distinctive settings of any US theme park. The coaster line-up includes Iron Rattler (a Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid), Batman: The Ride (a 4-D free-fly coaster), Superman Krypton Coaster, Poltergeist, and Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster. A Hurricane Harbor Pirate Cove water park is included with admission.

Texas school holidays, Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park drive Fiesta Texas's peak crowds. Summer San Antonio heat pushes queue times up in the afternoons as guests head to the shaded quarry walls and water rides. Check live wait times for Iron Rattler and Wonder Woman on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a cooler midweek date for shorter queues.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas live queue times

05 · Questions

Californias Great America or Six Flags Fiesta Texas?

Which is better, Californias Great America or Six Flags Fiesta Texas?

If you are judging on queues, Six Flags Fiesta Texas: it averages about 21 minutes a ride on a typical day against 42 at Californias Great America, roughly 21 minutes back on every queue you join. Californias Great America has 13 rides with recorded waits against 20 at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

Which has shorter queues, Californias Great America or Six Flags Fiesta Texas?

Six Flags Fiesta Texas, by about 21 minutes a ride. On a typical day Six Flags Fiesta Texas averages 21 minutes against 42 at Californias Great America. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Californias Great America best time to visit and Six Flags Fiesta Texas best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Californias Great America and Six Flags Fiesta Texas in the same trip?

Yes - both parks are in United States, so a two-park trip is realistic over a long weekend. Split the days so you start at whichever opens earliest and drive to the other in the evening.

How many rides does each park have?

See the tables above for ride counts - or jump to Californias Great America and Six Flags Fiesta Texas for the full ride lists.

Is Californias Great America bigger than Six Flags Fiesta Texas?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Fiesta Texas is the bigger day out: 20 rides against 13. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Six Flags Fiesta Texas is the quicker park.

Then pick
the quiet day.

Both parks have a crowd calendar with six weeks of forecast and the best day left to go.

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