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Disneyland Park cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data34 rides

Arrive for 08:00 and ride Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, Haunted Mansion Holiday and Space Mountain first. Leave Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 6 minutes. The park's queues peak around 19:00 at 22 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
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Monday
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. 08:009mquietest
  2. 09:0011m
  3. 10:0015m
  4. 11:0018m
  5. 12:0019m
  6. 13:0018m
  7. 14:0018m
  8. 15:0018m
  9. 16:0018m
  10. 17:0020m
  11. 18:0021m
  12. 19:0022mpeak
  13. 20:0021m
  14. 21:0017m
  15. 22:0014m

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. 1Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ~43 min typical · up to 49 at peak · worst around 6pm43m
  2. 2Haunted Mansion Holiday ~42 min typical · up to 50 at peak · worst around 11pm42m
  3. 3Space Mountain ~41 min typical · up to 44 at peak · worst around 11pm41m

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. 1Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin~30 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  2. 2Tiana's Bayou Adventure~28 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  3. 3Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway~25 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  4. 4Matterhorn Bobsleds~27 min typical · about 9 min after 3pm9m
  5. 5Big Thunder Mountain Railroad~24 min typical · about 9 min after 3pm9m

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

Fill the gaps with

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

Usually under 10 minutesDavy Crockett's Explorer Canoes5mMad Tea Party7mKing Arthur Carrousel7mDisneyland Railroad7mPinocchio's Daring Journey9mCasey Jr. Circus Train9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Indiana Jones™ Adventurerunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Sailing Ship Columbiarunning 8% of the park's open hours8%
  3. 3Mark Twain Riverboatrunning 69% of the park's open hours69%
  4. 4Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spinrunning 80% of the park's open hours80%

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.