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Disneyland Paris cheat sheet

worked out from 51 days of our own wait data39 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Crush's Coaster, Frozen Ever After and Big Thunder Mountain first. Leave Peter Pan's Flight until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 21 minutes. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 31 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Monday
Busiest weekday
Thursday
Quietest month
November
Busiest month
August

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. 10:0024m
  2. 11:0030m
  3. 12:0031mpeak
  4. 13:0030m
  5. 14:0029m
  6. 15:0028m
  7. 16:0028m
  8. 17:0026m
  9. 18:0025m
  10. 19:0023m
  11. 20:0021m
  12. 21:0017mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 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. 1Crush's Coaster ~77 min typical · up to 89 at peak · worst around 9am77m
  2. 2Frozen Ever After ~65 min typical · up to 88 at peak · worst around 9am65m
  3. 3Big Thunder Mountain ~57 min typical · up to 65 at peak · worst around 10am57m

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

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1Peter Pan's Flight~57 min typical · about 21 min after 7pm21m
  2. 2Ratatouille : L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy​~54 min typical · about 18 min after 7pm18m
  3. 3Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure~51 min typical · about 15 min after 7pm15m
  4. 4RC Racer~44 min typical · about 17 min after 7pm17m
  5. 5Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop~46 min typical · about 22 min after 7pm22m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Disneyland Railroad Discoveryland Stationrunning 18% of the park's open hours18%
  2. 2Disneyland Railroad Frontierland Depotrunning 18% of the park's open hours18%
  3. 3Peter Pan's Flightrunning 20% of the park's open hours20%
  4. 4Toy Soldiers Parachute Droprunning 24% of the park's open hours24%
  5. 5Disneyland Railroad Fantasyland Stationrunning 44% of the park's open hours44%

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.