Big Thunder Mountain Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 14308 wait-time samples

0.39
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.
50m
Typical (p50) wait
65m
Busy (p90) wait
85m
Worst-case (p99)
105m
All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

46m
Weekday average
47m
Weekend average
1.02×
Weekend multiplier

Lightning Lane sell-out pattern

Big Thunder Mountain sells out at a median of 21:03 local time, on 10 of 51 observed days (19%).

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
100%
1
100%
2
77%
3
35%
4
8%
5
6%
6
6%
7
18%
8
13%
9
11%
10
13%
11
31%
12
13%
13
11%
14
6%
15
17%
16
46%
17
97%
18
100%
19
100%
20
100%
21
100%
22
100%
23
100%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 55 54 56 53 46 45 40 31 21
Tue 58 58 56 50 54 54 44 40 24
Wed 52 49 53 51 49 43 36 29 22
Thu 57 57 54 53 55 49 42 34 15
Fri 55 54 55 52 48 47 38 32 12
Sat 67 62 63 58 54 49 45 36 27 17
Sun 57 56 50 49 47 39 31 25 16

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

48m
Clear
45m
Cloudy
47m
Drizzle
46m
Partly Cloudy
30m
Rain

When this ride goes down

These rides spike in wait time when Big Thunder Mountain is reported DOWN:

Indiana Jones™ and the Temple of Peril
+8m (37%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Big Thunder Mountain go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

Disneyland Railroad Main Street Station
+13m (26%)
Disneyland Railroad Main Street Station
+12m (26%)
Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing
+11m (23%)
La Cabane des Robinson
+11m (23%)
Disneyland Railroad Frontierland Depot
+11m (22%)
Main Street Vehicles
+9m (18%)
Frontierland Playground
+8m (17%)
"it's a small world"
+8m (16%)

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