Seaworld San Antonio
vs
Six Flags Great America

On a typical day Seaworld San Antonio queues less: about 12 minutes a ride against 24 at Six Flags Great America, a difference of roughly 12 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.

Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great America compared on their typical recorded queue times
Typically	Seaworld San AntonioUnited States	Six Flags Great AmericaUnited States
Average wait per ride	12 min (best of the two)	24 min
Rides with recorded waits	9	23 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue	Rio Loco30 min	Wrath of Rakshasa48 min
Shortest typical queue	Riptide Rescue5 min	Rue Le Dodge6 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running	70%	75% (best of the two)

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.

Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great America 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 Seaworld San Antonio queues less: about 12 minutes a ride against 24 at Six Flags Great America, a difference of roughly 12 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 Seaworld San Antonio if…

You want shorter queues: Seaworld San Antonio averages 12 minutes a ride against 24 at Six Flags Great America
Rio Loco is on your list - it is Seaworld San Antonio's longest typical queue at about 30 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Seaworld San Antonio's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Great America if…

You will accept a longer queue - 24 minutes a ride here against 12 at Seaworld San Antonio - for what Six Flags Great America has that Seaworld San Antonio does not
You want more to do: 23 rides here have recorded wait data against 9 at Seaworld San Antonio
You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Great America's rides run 75% of opening hours against 70% at Seaworld San Antonio
Wrath of Rakshasa is on your list - it is Six Flags Great America's longest typical queue at about 48 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags Great America's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Seaworld San Antonio

SeaWorld San Antonio is the largest marine-life theme park in the world by area, sitting on 250 acres in San Antonio, Texas. It combines marine animal shows with a solid coaster line-up: Wave Breaker (a jet-ski themed coaster), Great White (an inverted coaster), Steel Eel (a hyper coaster), Texas Stingray wooden coaster, and the newer Tidal Surge swing ride. A separate Aquatica water park operates next door.

Texas heat drives summer crowds into early mornings and late evenings, with the coolest queue times usually at the start of the day. Halloween Spooktacular, Christmas Celebration and US school holidays are the peak periods. Check live wait times for Texas Stingray and Wave Breaker on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek day for shorter queues.

Seaworld San Antonio live queue times

Six Flags Great America

Six Flags Great America sits in Gurnee, Illinois, between Chicago and Milwaukee. The coaster line-up includes Maxx Force (with one of the world's fastest inversions), X Flight wing coaster, Goliath (a Rocky Mountain Construction wooden coaster), Raging Bull, American Eagle duelling wooden coaster, and Batman: The Ride. A Hurricane Harbor water park is included during summer.

Illinois and Wisconsin school holidays, Chicago-area weekend visits, and the popular Fright Fest event drive Six Flags Great America's busiest periods. Weekdays in May, June, September and October are dramatically quieter. Check live wait times for Maxx Force and Goliath on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a lower-crowd midweek date for shorter queues.

Six Flags Great America live queue times

05 · Questions

Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great America?

Which is better, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great America?

If you are judging on queues, Seaworld San Antonio: it averages about 12 minutes a ride on a typical day against 24 at Six Flags Great America, roughly 12 minutes back on every queue you join. Seaworld San Antonio has 9 rides with recorded waits against 23 at Six Flags Great America. Six Flags Great America also runs its rides more reliably - 75% of opening hours against 70%.

Which has shorter queues, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great America?

Seaworld San Antonio, by about 12 minutes a ride. On a typical day Seaworld San Antonio averages 12 minutes against 24 at Six Flags Great America. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Seaworld San Antonio best time to visit and Six Flags Great America best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great America 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 Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great America for the full ride lists.

Is Seaworld San Antonio bigger than Six Flags Great America?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Great America is the bigger day out: 23 rides against 9. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Seaworld San Antonio 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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