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Liseberg cheat sheet

worked out from 26 days of our own wait data40 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Balder, Nattsvart på Gasten and Helix first. Leave Zombie until after 10pm, when its queue drops to about 16 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 20 minutes and are lowest around 11:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Thursday
Quietest month
December
Busiest month
October

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. 11:0012mquietest
  2. 12:0014m
  3. 13:0016m
  4. 14:0017m
  5. 15:0017m
  6. 16:0019m
  7. 17:0020mpeak
  8. 18:0019m
  9. 19:0018m
  10. 20:0017m
  11. 21:0019m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 17:00 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. 1Balder ~45 min typical · up to 58 at peak · worst around 5pm45m
  2. 2Nattsvart på Gasten ~45 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 3pm45m
  3. 3Helix ~36 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 4pm36m

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. 1Zombie~32 min typical · about 16 min after 10pm16m
  2. 2Skogen~23 min typical · about 10 min after 10pm10m
  3. 3Lisebergbanan~22 min typical · about 10 min after 10pm10m
  4. 4Rabalder~21 min typical · about 10 min after 6pm10m
  5. 5Tempus~21 min typical · about 11 min after 8pm11m

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. 1Skogenrunning 37% of the park's open hours37%
  2. 2Zombierunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  3. 3Nattsvart på Gastenrunning 63% of the park's open hours63%
  4. 4Vindenrunning 64% of the park's open hours64%
  5. 5Sevenrunning 64% of the park's open hours64%

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

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.

Get the day-of sheet

An account gives you a ride order for your date, with the forecast and the hours, ready to print. Free, and no card needed.

  • 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.