"it's a small world" Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 24992 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.67
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
25m
Busy (p90) wait
35m
Worst-case (p99)
100m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

9m
Weekday average
11m
Weekend average
1.26×
Weekend multiplier

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.

28
Recorded breakdowns
17m
Typical (median) outage
1h 57m
Longest outage (2026-08-14)
2.2
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-136m
2026-10-1217m
2026-10-0412m
2026-10-046m
2026-09-296m
2026-09-2650m
2026-09-2325m
2026-09-1911m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 23 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

9
6%
10
3%
11
1%
12
1%
13
1%
14
1%
15
2%
16
2%
17
1%
18
0%
19
1%
20
1%
21
1%
22
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 5 6 11 20 16 14 12 7 6 6 5 5 5 5
Tue – 5 6 12 22 19 16 13 10 8 6 5 5 5 5
Wed – 5 6 8 18 12 10 8 6 5 5 5 5 5 5
Thu – 5 7 10 18 14 14 11 9 6 6 5 5 5 5
Fri – 5 5 6 17 13 10 8 6 5 5 5 5 5 5
Sat – 5 7 15 24 21 19 15 13 8 8 5 5 5 5
Sun – 5 7 14 22 17 17 14 9 6 5 5 5 5 –

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

+0m
Cloudy · 590 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 279 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Light Rain · 20 ride-hours · within noise

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