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Shanghai Disneyland Resort cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data26 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Rex’s Racer first. Leave Zootopia: Hot Pursuit until after 9pm, when its queue drops to about 16 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 31 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Thursday
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. 09:0023m
  2. 10:0028m
  3. 11:0029m
  4. 12:0027m
  5. 13:0029m
  6. 14:0029m
  7. 15:0029m
  8. 16:0030m
  9. 17:0031mpeak
  10. 18:0029m
  11. 19:0028m
  12. 20:0020m
  13. 21:0015mquietest

Arrive for 09:00. 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. 1TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet ~77 min typical · up to 101 at peak · worst around 6pm77m
  2. 2Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ~76 min typical · up to 87 at peak · worst around 10am76m
  3. 3Rex’s Racer ~67 min typical · up to 92 at peak · worst around 4pm67m

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. 1Zootopia: Hot Pursuit~60 min typical · about 16 min after 9pm16m
  2. 2Soaring Over the Horizon~52 min typical · about 15 min after 9pm15m
  3. 3Roaring Rapids~27 min typical · about 6 min after 9pm6m
  4. 4Pirates of the Caribbean Battle for the Sunken Treasure~22 min typical · about 5 min after 9pm5m

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 minutesSiren's Revenge5mShipwreck Shore5mPixar Adventurous Journey5mJunior Explorers Camp5mAlice in Wonderland Maze5mBecome Iron Man at the Marvel Universe6mBuzz Lightyear Planet Rescue7m“Once Upon a Time” Adventure8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Space Chat With Stitchrunning 47% of the park's open hours47%
  2. 2“Once Upon a Time” Adventurerunning 64% of the park's open hours64%
  3. 3Dumbo the Flying Elephantrunning 82% of the park's open hours82%

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.