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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 37 minutes and are lowest around 17:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
November
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. 08:0028m
  2. 09:0027m
  3. 10:0033m
  4. 11:0037mpeak
  5. 12:0035m
  6. 13:0031m
  7. 14:0028m
  8. 15:0025m
  9. 16:0024m
  10. 17:0023mquietest

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 ~43 min typical · up to 49 at peak · worst around 10am43m
  2. 2Na'vi River Journey ~34 min typical · up to 43 at peak · worst around 11am34m
  3. 3Kilimanjaro Safaris ~32 min typical · up to 50 at peak · worst around 10am32m

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

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesWildlife Express Train8m

On the day

Your day-of sheet

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

With a free account you 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.

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  • 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.

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.