"it's a small world" Reliability & Wait Patterns
Disneyland Paris · Based on 14273 wait-time samples
Weekend vs Weekday
Lightning Lane sell-out pattern
"it's a small world" sells out at a median of 20:02 local time, on 10 of 51 observed days (19%).
Real breakdown history (last 90 days)
Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time "it's a small world" flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.
Most recent outages
| Date | Down for |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-29 | 36m |
| 2026-08-29 | 14m |
| 2026-08-24 | 8m |
| 2026-08-19 | 19m |
| 2026-08-14 | 1h 57m |
| 2026-08-11 | 21m |
| 2026-08-11 | 8m |
| 2026-08-10 | 37m |
Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 27 different days in this window.
Downtime by hour
Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).
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Best & worst hours by day of week
Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.
| DOW | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 15 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tue | 14 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Wed | 9 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Thu | 14 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Fri | 11 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sat | 22 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sun | 16 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Weather effect on waits
Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:
When this ride goes down
These rides spike in wait time when "it's a small world" is reported DOWN:
What causes this ride to spike
Waits for "it's a small world" go up the most when these rides are DOWN:
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