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Six Flags Great Adventure cheat sheet

worked out from 30 days of our own wait data19 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride THE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity, SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight and BATMAN™ The Ride first. Leave Medusa until after 11pm, when its queue drops to about 14 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 42 minutes and are lowest around 11:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Friday
Quietest month
March
Busiest month
October

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. 11:0025mquietest
  2. 12:0026m
  3. 13:0025m
  4. 14:0029m
  5. 15:0033m
  6. 16:0038m
  7. 17:0042mpeak
  8. 18:0038m
  9. 19:0040m
  10. 20:0042m
  11. 21:0038m

Arrive for 11:00. 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. 1THE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity ~69 min typical · up to 100 at peak · worst around 7pm69m
  2. 2SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight ~69 min typical · up to 139 at peak · worst around 3pm69m
  3. 3BATMAN™ The Ride ~58 min typical · up to 98 at peak · worst around 8pm58m

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. 1Medusa~45 min typical · about 14 min after 11pm14m
  2. 2THE DARK KNIGHT™ Coaster~36 min typical · about 5 min after 11pm5m
  3. 3Houdini’s Great Escape~46 min typical · about 20 min after 5pm20m
  4. 4HARLEY QUINN™ Crazy Train~33 min typical · about 7 min after 11pm7m
  5. 5THE JOKER™~46 min typical · about 25 min after 11pm25m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Nitrorunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Safari Off-Road Adventurerunning 11% of the park's open hours11%
  3. 3El Tororunning 36% of the park's open hours36%
  4. 4Medusarunning 53% of the park's open hours53%
  5. 5THE JOKER™running 67% of the park's open hours67%

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.