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Universal Studios Hollywood cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data34 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness and Sinners first. The park's queues peak around 15:00 at 30 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
Tuesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday

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. 11:0026m
  2. 12:0027m
  3. 13:0026m
  4. 14:0027m
  5. 15:0030mpeak
  6. 16:0029m
  7. 17:0028m
  8. 18:0025m
  9. 19:0024mquietest
  10. 20:0027m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 15:00 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. 1Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift ~96 min typical · up to 97 at peak · worst around 6pm96m
  2. 2Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness ~61 min typical · up to 67 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour61m
  3. 3Sinners ~56 min typical · up to 79 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour56m

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

Usually under 10 minutesTerror Tram featuring Art the Clown – Last Tram5mKill-Ceanera - Express5mEvil Dead Burn - Express5mStudio Tour Last Tram5mBowser Jr. Challenge5mKiller Klowns - Express6mDead, Deader, Deadest - Express6mStranger Things - Express7m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Hellraiser - Expressrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Ozzy Osbourne - Expressrunning 2% of the park's open hours2%
  3. 3Sinners - Expressrunning 2% of the park's open hours2%
  4. 4Terror Tram starring Art the Clownrunning 18% of the park's open hours18%
  5. 5Dead Deader Deadestrunning 19% of the park's open hours19%

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.