Mad Hatter's Tea Cups Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 21720 wait-time samples

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

0.45
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
15m
Busy (p90) wait
20m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

7m
Weekday average
7m
Weekend average
1.02×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Mad Hatter's Tea Cups flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

10
Recorded breakdowns
19m
Typical (median) outage
5h 22m
Longest outage (2026-08-14)
0.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1516m
2026-10-0617m
2026-09-0122m
2026-08-3121m
2026-08-1848m
2026-08-145h 22m
2026-08-147m
2026-08-106m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 9 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
1%
10
1%
11
1%
12
2%
13
3%
14
4%
15
4%
16
5%
17
5%
18
3%
19
3%
20
1%
21
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 5 5 7 9 12 9 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 –
Tue – 5 6 7 10 12 10 8 7 7 6 6 6 5 –
Wed – 5 5 6 8 9 7 7 6 5 5 5 5 5 –
Thu – 5 5 7 9 10 9 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 –
Fri – 5 5 5 7 8 7 6 6 6 6 7 6 7 –
Sat – 5 5 8 8 9 8 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 –
Sun – 6 6 8 9 9 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 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 · 432 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 193 ride-hours · within noise

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