Disneyland Railroad Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Park · Based on 28679 wait-time samples

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

0.35
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)
30m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

7m
Weekday average
6m
Weekend average
0.85×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

75
Recorded breakdowns
29m
Typical (median) outage
2h 47m
Longest outage (2026-10-15)
5.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1547m
2026-10-152h 47m
2026-10-1423m
2026-10-1445m
2026-10-131h 12m
2026-10-121h 2m
2026-10-111h 7m
2026-10-1140m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 54 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.

0
0%
8
10%
9
5%
10
2%
11
2%
12
3%
13
5%
14
4%
15
5%
16
4%
17
1%
18
1%
19
2%
20
4%
21
10%
22
2%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 9 9 8 7 7 9
Tue 6 6 6 6 8 9 9 9 8 8 8 10 9 9 10
Wed 5 5 5 5 6 5 6 8 8 8 9 8 8 8 9
Thu 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 8 12
Fri 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 6 6 6 7 7 7
Sat 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 8 7 7 8 8 8
Sun 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 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
Clear · 740 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Cloudy · 325 ride-hours · within noise

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