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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom cheat sheet

worked out from 37 days of our own wait data17 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride BATMAN: The Ride, Sidewinder Safari and Medusa first. Leave White Water Safari until after 8pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 15:00 at 25 minutes and are lowest around 12:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
June
Busiest month
March

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. 12:0016mquietest
  2. 13:0021m
  3. 14:0022m
  4. 15:0025mpeak
  5. 16:0024m
  6. 17:0023m
  7. 18:0021m

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 15:00 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. 1BATMAN: The Ride ~45 min typical · up to 56 at peak · worst around 8pm45m
  2. 2Sidewinder Safari ~44 min typical · up to 55 at peak · worst around 10pm44m
  3. 3Medusa ~43 min typical · up to 60 at peak · worst around 2am43m

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. 1White Water Safari~34 min typical · about 5 min after 8pm5m
  2. 2Boomerang Coast-to-Coaster~29 min typical · about 5 min after 7pm5m
  3. 3WONDER WOMAN Lasso of Truth~38 min typical · about 17 min after 7pm17m
  4. 4SUPERMAN Ultimate Flight~37 min typical · about 21 min after 7pm21m
  5. 5THE JOKER~32 min typical · about 16 min after 7pm16m

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 minutesWave Swinger5mThrilla Gorilla5mScat-A-Bout5mMonkey Business5mBoardwalk Bumper Buggies5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Cobrarunning 67% of the park's open hours67%
  2. 2White Water Safarirunning 76% of the park's open hours76%
  3. 3THE JOKERrunning 77% of the park's open hours77%
  4. 4Sidewinder Safarirunning 79% of the park's open hours79%

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.