Best time to visit Animal Kingdom

1. Mon78%
2. Tue73%
3. Wed69%Quietest day of the week here
4. Thu71%
5. Fri78%
6. Sat79%
7. Sun78%

Wednesday is the calmest day at Animal Kingdom, averaging 69% against 79% on Saturday. Weekdays run 4 points below weekends.

The park-wide average is 28 minutes at 8am, peaking at 38 minutes around 11am and easing to 22 minutes by 5pm. Walking in at opening rather than at the peak is worth about 10 minutes on every queue you join, across every tracked ride.

Every figure on this page comes from queue times recorded at Animal Kingdom itself, sampled every few minutes across every ride the park publishes and stored day by day. A day's crowd score is that day's average wait expressed against this park's own busiest recorded day, so 100% means "as bad as it gets here" rather than "as bad as it gets anywhere" - a quiet day at a small park and a quiet day at Animal Kingdom are not the same number of minutes, and scoring each park against itself is the only way the months stay comparable. In plain minutes, the park-wide average across the last 60 operating days runs from 22 minutes at its calmest hour to 38 minutes at 11am. Months with fewer than 10 recorded operating days are left unranked rather than averaged from a handful of days, and holidays, school terms and weather are all part of the model.

We publish how well those forecasts actually hold up: the crowd forecast accuracy ledger scores every past prediction against what the queues did on the day, versioned so you can see whether the model is getting better or worse. If you are choosing between parks rather than dates, the best time to visit a theme park guide covers the seasonal patterns that hold across every park we track, and the Animal Kingdom crowd calendar gives you a day-by-day forecast for the specific dates you are considering. Always check the park's own site for opening hours and closures before travelling.