La Ronde Montreal cheat sheet

Quietest weekday

Friday

Busiest weekday

Monday

Quietest month

May

Busiest month

September

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.

1. 11:0020mquietest
2. 12:0027m
3. 13:0029m
4. 14:0031m
5. 15:0033m
6. 16:0035mpeak
7. 17:0035m
8. 18:0034m
9. 19:0031m
10. 20:0031m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 16:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

1. 1Monstre - Voie 2 ~74 min typical · up to 101 at peak · worst around 9pm74m
2. 2Le Monstre ~68 min typical · up to 89 at peak · worst around 9pm68m
3. 3Dragon ~59 min typical · up to 79 at peak · worst around 9pm59m

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

1. 1Titan~49 min typical · about 16 min after 3pm16m
2. 2Catapulte~46 min typical · about 15 min after 5pm15m
3. 3Goliath~44 min typical · about 17 min after 3pm17m
4. 4Toboggan Nordique~53 min typical · about 27 min after 3pm27m
5. 5Boomerang~34 min typical · about 10 min after 3pm10m

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

1. 1Ourson Friponrunning 2% of the park's open hours2%
2. 2Bateau Piraterunning 33% of the park's open hours33%
3. 3Boomerangrunning 64% of the park's open hours64%
4. 4Le Monstrerunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
5. 5Vertigorunning 73% of the park's open hours73%

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.