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Magic Kingdom cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data23 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride TRON Lightcycle / Run, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Peter Pan's Flight first. The park's queues peak around 19:00 at 28 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
Tuesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
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. 09:0016mquietest
  2. 10:0020m
  3. 11:0024m
  4. 12:0025m
  5. 13:0025m
  6. 14:0024m
  7. 15:0024m
  8. 16:0025m
  9. 17:0025m
  10. 18:0027m
  11. 19:0028mpeak
  12. 20:0027m
  13. 21:0020m
  14. 22:0017m

Arrive for 09:00. 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. 1TRON Lightcycle / Run ~55 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 3pm55m
  2. 2Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ~43 min typical · up to 44 at peak · worst around 3pm43m
  3. 3Peter Pan's Flight ~38 min typical · up to 41 at peak · worst around 4pm38m

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

Fill the gaps with

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

Usually under 10 minutesMad Tea Party7mPrince Charming Regal Carrousel7mTomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover8mThe Magic Carpets of Aladdin8mDumbo the Flying Elephant8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Walt Disney World Railroad - Fantasylandrunning 70% of the park's open hours70%
  2. 2Walt Disney World Railroad - Main Street, U.S.A.running 70% of the park's open hours70%
  3. 3Tiana's Bayou Adventurerunning 83% of the park's open hours83%
  4. 4Jungle Cruiserunning 83% of the park's open hours83%

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.