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Port Aventura World cheat sheet

worked out from 36 days of our own wait data50 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Uncharted, Ferrari Land Gallery and Red Force first. Leave Dragon Khan until after 4pm, when its queue drops to about 13 minutes. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 26 minutes and are lowest around 15:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
October
Busiest month
January

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. 11:0025m
  2. 12:0026mpeak
  3. 13:0024m
  4. 14:0021m
  5. 15:0019mquietest
  6. 16:0019m
  7. 17:0021m
  8. 18:0024m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 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. 1Uncharted ~58 min typical · up to 61 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour58m
  2. 2Ferrari Land Gallery ~55 min typical55m
  3. 3Red Force ~53 min typical · up to 80 at peak · worst around 5pm53m

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. 1Dragon Khan~26 min typical · about 13 min after 4pm13m
  2. 2Tutuki Splash~23 min typical · about 11 min after 5pm11m
  3. 3Kid's Tower~12 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m

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 minutesKiddie Balloons5mVolPaiute5mKiddie Dragons5mCobra imperial6mCarousel6mChampions Race7mTea Cups7mKiddie Kities7m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Crazy Pistonsrunning 10% of the park's open hours10%
  2. 2Templo del Fuegorunning 15% of the park's open hours15%
  3. 3Junior Championshiprunning 18% of the park's open hours18%
  4. 4Junior Red Forcerunning 18% of the park's open hours18%
  5. 5Red Forcerunning 19% of the park's open hours19%

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.