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Six Flags Over Texas cheat sheet

worked out from 29 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Runaway Mine Train, MR. FREEZE and Tormenta Rampaging Run first. Leave BATMAN™ The Ride until after 10pm, when its queue drops to about 11 minutes. The park's queues peak around 21:00 at 37 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
Monday
Quietest month
August
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. 12:0020mquietest
  2. 13:0022m
  3. 14:0027m
  4. 15:0030m
  5. 16:0034m
  6. 17:0034m
  7. 18:0029m
  8. 19:0031m
  9. 20:0032m
  10. 21:0037mpeak

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 21:00 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. 1Runaway Mine Train ~74 min typical · up to 101 at peak · worst around 2pm74m
  2. 2MR. FREEZE ~71 min typical · up to 107 at peak · worst around 7pm71m
  3. 3Tormenta Rampaging Run ~66 min typical · up to 105 at peak · worst around 1pm66m

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. 1BATMAN™ The Ride~52 min typical · about 11 min after 10pm11m

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. 1Roaring Rapidsrunning 65% of the park's open hours65%
  2. 2MR. FREEZErunning 67% of the park's open hours67%
  3. 3Runaway Mine Trainrunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
  4. 4THE RIDDLER™'s Revengerunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
  5. 5AQUAMAN: Power Waverunning 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.