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Six Flags Fiesta Texas cheat sheet

worked out from 41 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Bugs' White Water Rapids, The Gully Washer and Boomerang Coast To Coaster first. Leave Road Runner Express until after 8pm, when its queue drops to about 9 minutes. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 27 minutes and are lowest around 19:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Monday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
August
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. 11:0022m
  2. 12:0025m
  3. 13:0026m
  4. 14:0027mpeak
  5. 15:0025m
  6. 16:0023m
  7. 17:0020m
  8. 18:0020m
  9. 19:0019mquietest
  10. 20:0019m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 14:00 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. 1Bugs' White Water Rapids ~53 min typical · up to 68 at peak · worst around 9pm53m
  2. 2The Gully Washer ~40 min typical · up to 46 at peak · worst around 7pm40m
  3. 3Boomerang Coast To Coaster ~39 min typical · up to 48 at peak · worst around 5pm39m

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. 1Road Runner Express~28 min typical · about 9 min after 8pm9m
  2. 2Chupacabra~13 min typical · about 4 min after 5pm4m
  3. 3Dr. Diabolical's Cliffhanger~13 min typical · about 5 min after 4pm5m

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 minutesMETROPOLIS™ Transit Authority5mPirates of the Deep Sea7mScream!8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Fireballrunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  2. 2Hurricane Force 5running 63% of the park's open hours63%
  3. 3Pandemoniumrunning 69% of the park's open hours69%
  4. 4SUPERGIRL™ Sky Flightrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  5. 5Boomerang Coast To Coasterrunning 75% of the park's open hours75%

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.

£16.99for two daysor £49.99 for a whole year. Paid once - it never renews.

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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.