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Disney California Adventure cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 08:00 and ride Radiator Springs Racers, Guardians of the Galaxy - Monsters After Dark and Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! first. The park's queues peak around 19:00 at 33 minutes and are lowest around 08:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
August
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. 08:0012mquietest
  2. 09:0016m
  3. 10:0021m
  4. 11:0024m
  5. 12:0024m
  6. 13:0023m
  7. 14:0024m
  8. 15:0025m
  9. 16:0028m
  10. 17:0030m
  11. 18:0031m
  12. 19:0033mpeak
  13. 20:0031m

Arrive for 08:00. Queues climb to their peak around 19:00 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. 1Radiator Springs Racers ~76 min typical · up to 113 at peak · worst around 7pm76m
  2. 2Guardians of the Galaxy - Monsters After Dark ~63 min typical · up to 85 at peak · worst around 7pm63m
  3. 3Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! ~46 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 12pm46m

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 minutesJessie's Critter Carousel5mGolden Zephyr7mSilly Symphony Swings7mJumpin' Jellyfish8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!running 60% of the park's open hours60%
  2. 2Guardians of the Galaxy - Monsters After Darkrunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  3. 3Luigi's Honkin' Haul-O-Weenrunning 68% of the park's open hours68%
  4. 4Goofy's Sky Schoolrunning 80% of the park's open hours80%
  5. 5WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventurerunning 81% of the park's open hours81%

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.