Universal Studios Beijing cheat sheet
Ride The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™ and Identity V-Escape from White Sand Street first.
Before you go
When to go
The days and months this park's rides run quietest
- Quietest weekday
- Wednesday
- Busiest weekday
- Tuesday
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.
Ride these first
The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning
- 1The Grave Robbers' Chronicles71m
- 2Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™60m
- 3Identity V-Escape from White Sand Street58m
Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.
Fill the gaps with
Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines
Watch-outs
Rides that spend the most of the day not running
- 1Identity V-Escape from White Sand Street28%
- 2The Grave Robbers' Chronicles29%
- 3The House of Hua Pi29%
- 4A Quiet Place29%
- 5Universal Monsters Crypt29%
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.
- 1Nemesis10:1015m
- 2Wicker Man11:0520m
- 3Oblivion12:3025m
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.