Seaworld San Antonio
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Six Flags Magic Mountain

Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Magic Mountain queue about the same on a typical day - 12 minutes against 13 minutes across 9 and 37 tracked rides. Pick on travel time or on which rides you actually want.

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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 Magic Mountain compared on their typical recorded queue times
Typically	Seaworld San AntonioUnited States	Six Flags Magic MountainUnited States
Average wait per ride	12 min (best of the two)	13 min
Rides with recorded waits	9	37 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue	Rio Loco30 min	Roaring Rapids41 min
Shortest typical queue	Riptide Rescue5 min	Taz’s Tazmanian Train Tours5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running	70%	94% (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 Magic Mountain 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 Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Magic Mountain queue about the same on a typical day - 12 minutes against 13 minutes across 9 and 37 tracked rides. Pick on travel time or on which rides you actually want.

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…

Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 12 minutes a ride
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 Magic Mountain if…

Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 13 minutes a ride
You want more to do: 37 rides here have recorded wait data against 9 at Seaworld San Antonio
You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Magic Mountain's rides run 94% of opening hours against 70% at Seaworld San Antonio
Roaring Rapids is on your list - it is Six Flags Magic Mountain's longest typical queue at about 41 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags Magic Mountain'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 Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, holds the world record for most roller coasters at a single park - currently 20 distinct coasters. Highlights include X2 (a 4-D prototype), Twisted Colossus, Tatsu (a flying coaster), Full Throttle, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Goliath, and Wonder Woman Flight of Courage. The park's hilly footprint gives many rides dramatic terrain-following drops.

Magic Mountain's LA-area weekend visits, US school holidays, Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park events drive peak crowds. Weekdays outside school breaks can be dramatically quieter. Check live queue times for X2 and Twisted Colossus on arrival - they build up fastest - and use our crowd calendar to pick a lower-crowd midweek date if you want to ride all 20 coasters in a single day.

Six Flags Magic Mountain live queue times

05 · Questions

Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Which is better, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

On queues there is nothing in it: both average about 12 minutes a ride on a typical day. Seaworld San Antonio has 9 rides with recorded waits against 37 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Six Flags Magic Mountain also runs its rides more reliably - 94% of opening hours against 70%. So pick on travel time, or on which park has the rides you actually want.

Which has shorter queues, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

They are level. Seaworld San Antonio averages 12 minutes a ride on a typical day and Six Flags Magic Mountain averages 13 - close enough that the day you pick matters more than the park. See Seaworld San Antonio best time to visit and Six Flags Magic Mountain best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Magic Mountain 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 Magic Mountain for the full ride lists.

Is Seaworld San Antonio bigger than Six Flags Magic Mountain?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Magic Mountain is the bigger day out: 37 rides against 9. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours.

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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