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Six Flags Over Texas cheat sheet

worked out from 45 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride MR. FREEZE, New Texas Giant and Runaway Mountain first. Leave JUSTICE LEAGUE™: Battle for METROPOLIS until after 6pm, when its queue drops to about 7 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 27 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
Friday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
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. 11:0027mpeak
  2. 12:0019mquietest
  3. 13:0020m
  4. 14:0022m
  5. 15:0023m
  6. 16:0023m
  7. 17:0021m
  8. 18:0019m
  9. 19:0020m
  10. 20:0021m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 11:00 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. 1MR. FREEZE ~37 min typical · up to 47 at peak · worst around 6pm37m
  2. 2New Texas Giant ~29 min typical · up to 41 at peak · worst around 7pm29m
  3. 3Runaway Mountain ~27 min typical · up to 35 at peak · worst around 8pm27m

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. 1JUSTICE LEAGUE™: Battle for METROPOLIS~27 min typical · about 7 min after 6pm7m
  2. 2THE RIDDLER™'s Revenge~20 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m
  3. 3Texas SkyScreamer~18 min typical · about 5 min after 5pm5m
  4. 4AQUAMAN: Power Wave~23 min typical · about 11 min after 5pm11m
  5. 5Roaring Rapids~20 min typical · about 10 min after 5pm10m

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 minutesJudge Roy Scream5mCATWOMAN Whip7mTitan8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Runaway Mine Trainrunning 14% of the park's open hours14%
  2. 2JUSTICE LEAGUE™: Battle for METROPOLISrunning 36% of the park's open hours36%
  3. 3Roaring Rapidsrunning 46% of the park's open hours46%
  4. 4THE JOKERrunning 49% of the park's open hours49%
  5. 5Runaway Mountainrunning 65% of the park's open hours65%

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.