Pirates of the Caribbean Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Paris · Based on 21454 wait-time samples

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

0.61
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
15m
Typical (p50) wait
35m
Busy (p90) wait
45m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

17m
Weekday average
19m
Weekend average
1.07×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Pirates of the Caribbean flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

45
Recorded breakdowns
56m
Typical (median) outage
5h 19m
Longest outage (2026-09-12)
3.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1610m
2026-10-162h 14m
2026-10-1518m
2026-10-1158m
2026-10-0929m
2026-10-0829m
2026-10-0714m
2026-10-0623m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 34 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
7%
10
5%
11
4%
12
6%
13
4%
14
5%
15
4%
16
4%
17
4%
18
2%
19
3%
20
5%
21
4%
22
2%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 8 13 20 30 33 31 28 23 17 13 9 8 7 5
Tue – 7 13 21 32 32 32 30 25 19 16 12 8 8 7
Wed – 6 10 18 22 25 26 21 17 13 12 8 8 9 5
Thu – 7 13 22 28 33 31 29 25 20 15 10 8 10 6
Fri – 6 9 17 22 23 25 19 17 12 8 5 6 6 5
Sat – 6 13 22 27 30 30 28 26 20 18 12 8 7 7
Sun – 7 14 22 28 31 32 26 21 16 14 9 6 6 6

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 · 571 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 275 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 20 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Pirates of the Caribbean is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains®
+4m (25%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Pirates of the Caribbean rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Phantom Manor
+4m (20%)
Big Thunder Mountain
+3m (17%)

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