Six Flags Magic Mountain
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Six Flags New England

Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England queue about the same on a typical day - 13 minutes against 12 minutes across 37 and 38 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.

Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England compared on their typical recorded queue times
Typically	Six Flags Magic MountainUnited States	Six Flags New EnglandUnited States
Average wait per ride	13 min	12 min (best of the two)
Rides with recorded waits	37	38 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue	Roaring Rapids41 min	Quantum Accelerator40 min
Shortest typical queue	Taz’s Tazmanian Train Tours5 min	Houdini - The Great Escape5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running	94% (best of the two)	80%

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.

Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England compared on live queue times
Right now	Six Flags Magic MountainUnited States	Six Flags New EnglandUnited States
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Rides open	-	-
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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 Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England queue about the same on a typical day - 13 minutes against 12 minutes across 37 and 38 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 Six Flags Magic Mountain if…

Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 13 minutes a ride
You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Magic Mountain's rides run 94% of opening hours against 80% at Six Flags New England
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

Pick Six Flags New England if…

Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 12 minutes a ride
You want more to do: 38 rides here have recorded wait data against 37 at Six Flags Magic Mountain
Quantum Accelerator is on your list - it is Six Flags New England's longest typical queue at about 40 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags New England's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

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

Six Flags New England

Six Flags New England sits in Agawam, Massachusetts, near the Connecticut state line. The coaster line-up includes Superman: The Ride (consistently rated one of the world's best steel coasters), Wicked Cyclone (a Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid), Goliath inverted coaster, Flashback, Joker 4D Free Fly Coaster, and the classic Thunderbolt. A Hurricane Harbor water park is included with admission.

Massachusetts and Connecticut school holidays, Fright Fest and US summer weekends drive Six Flags New England's peak crowds. Weekdays in May, September and October stay dramatically calmer. Check live wait times for Superman and Wicked Cyclone on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek date - queue times on most rides drop into single digits on quieter days.

Six Flags New England live queue times

05 · Questions

Six Flags Magic Mountain or Six Flags New England?

Which is better, Six Flags Magic Mountain or Six Flags New England?

On queues there is nothing in it: both average about 12 minutes a ride on a typical day. Six Flags Magic Mountain has 37 rides with recorded waits against 38 at Six Flags New England. Six Flags Magic Mountain also runs its rides more reliably - 94% of opening hours against 80%. So pick on travel time, or on which park has the rides you actually want.

Which has shorter queues, Six Flags Magic Mountain or Six Flags New England?

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

Can I visit Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England 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 Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags New England for the full ride lists.

Is Six Flags Magic Mountain bigger than Six Flags New England?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags New England is the bigger day out: 38 rides against 37. 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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