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Shanghai Disneyland Resort cheat sheet

worked out from 52 days of our own wait data26 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet and Soaring Over the Horizon first. The park's queues peak around 10:00 at 38 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
Monday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
July
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. 09:0031m
  2. 10:0038mpeak
  3. 11:0037m
  4. 12:0033m
  5. 13:0034m
  6. 14:0035m
  7. 15:0034m
  8. 16:0035m
  9. 17:0035m
  10. 18:0036m
  11. 19:0031m
  12. 20:0025m
  13. 21:0017mquietest

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 10:00 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. 1Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ~97 min typical · up to 101 at peak · worst around 8am97m
  2. 2TRON Lightcycle Power Run – Presented by Chevrolet ~89 min typical · up to 110 at peak · worst around 8am89m
  3. 3Soaring Over the Horizon ~82 min typical · up to 91 at peak · worst around 9am82m

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 minutesSiren's Revenge5mShipwreck Shore5mPixar Adventurous Journey5mJunior Explorers Camp5mAlice in Wonderland Maze5mBecome Iron Man at the Marvel Universe7m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Voyage to the Crystal Grottorunning 28% of the park's open hours28%
  2. 2Space Chat With Stitchrunning 50% of the park's open hours50%

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.