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Animal Kingdom cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data6 rides

Arrive for 08:00 and ride Avatar Flight of Passage, Na'vi River Journey and Kilimanjaro Safaris first. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 38 minutes and are lowest around 18:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
October
Busiest month
April

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 08:0026m
  2. 09:0027m
  3. 10:0034m
  4. 11:0038mpeak
  5. 12:0037m
  6. 13:0033m
  7. 14:0030m
  8. 15:0026m
  9. 16:0023m
  10. 17:0023m
  11. 18:0020mquietest

Arrive for 08:00. Queues climb to their peak around 11:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Avatar Flight of Passage ~48 min typical · up to 61 at peak · worst around 3pm48m
  2. 2Na'vi River Journey ~36 min typical · up to 47 at peak · worst around 3pm36m
  3. 3Kilimanjaro Safaris ~27 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 2pm27m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Wildlife Express Trainrunning 66% of the park's open hours66%
  2. 2Kali River Rapidsrunning 83% of the park's open hours83%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.