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Magic Kingdom cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data24 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride TRON Lightcycle / Run, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Peter Pan's Flight first. Leave Jingle Cruise until after 10pm, when its queue drops to about 12 minutes. The park's queues peak around 18:00 at 29 minutes and are lowest around 09:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Monday
Busiest weekday
Friday
Quietest month
September
Busiest month
February

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. 09:0014mquietest
  2. 10:0019m
  3. 11:0023m
  4. 12:0025m
  5. 13:0024m
  6. 14:0022m
  7. 15:0025m
  8. 16:0025m
  9. 17:0025m
  10. 18:0029mpeak
  11. 19:0026m
  12. 20:0021m
  13. 21:0016m

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 18:00 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. 1TRON Lightcycle / Run ~58 min typical · up to 106 at peak · worst around 10pm58m
  2. 2Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ~43 min typical · up to 49 at peak · worst around 6pm43m
  3. 3Peter Pan's Flight ~39 min typical · up to 44 at peak · worst around 3pm39m

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. 1Jingle Cruise~38 min typical · about 12 min after 10pm12m
  2. 2Jungle Cruise~31 min typical · about 9 min after 9pm9m
  3. 3The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh~29 min typical · about 16 min after 10pm16m

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 minutesPrince Charming Regal Carrousel8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Tiana's Bayou Adventurerunning 42% of the park's open hours42%
  2. 2Jingle Cruiserunning 49% of the park's open hours49%
  3. 3Jungle Cruiserunning 50% of the park's open hours50%
  4. 4Walt Disney World Railroad - Fantasylandrunning 77% of the park's open hours77%
  5. 5Walt Disney World Railroad - Main Street, U.S.A.running 77% of the park's open hours77%

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.

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  • 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.