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Universal Studios Hollywood cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data31 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, Sinners and Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness first. Leave Mario Kart™: Bowser’s Challenge until after 6pm, when its queue drops to about 18 minutes. The park's queues peak around 20:00 at 30 minutes and are lowest around 13:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
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. 11:0024m
  2. 12:0023m
  3. 13:0022mquietest
  4. 14:0023m
  5. 15:0027m
  6. 16:0027m
  7. 17:0026m
  8. 18:0022m
  9. 19:0022m
  10. 20:0030mpeak

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 20:00 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 ~91 min typical · up to 99 at peak · worst around 3pm91m
  2. 2Sinners ~59 min typical · up to 81 at peak · worst around 9pm59m
  3. 3Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness ~52 min typical · up to 58 at peak · worst around 6pm52m

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. 1Mario Kart™: Bowser’s Challenge~41 min typical · about 18 min after 6pm18m
  2. 2Hellraiser~33 min typical · about 13 min after 6pm13m
  3. 3Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™~26 min typical · about 6 min after 6pm6m
  4. 4Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride~27 min typical · about 9 min after 6pm9m
  5. 5TRANSFORMERS™: The Ride-3D~24 min typical · about 7 min after 6pm7m

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 minutesStudio Tour Last Tram5mEvil Dead Burn - Express5mDead, Deader, Deadest - Express5mBowser Jr. Challenge5mKill-Ceanera - Express6mKiller Klowns - Express6mHellraiser - Express7mSilly Swirly8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Jurassic World - The Riderunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Terror Tram featuring Art the Clown – Last Tramrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  3. 3Terror Tram starring Art the Clownrunning 16% of the park's open hours16%
  4. 4Killceañera: Music by SLASHrunning 19% of the park's open hours19%
  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.