Goofy's Sky School Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 25598 wait-time samples

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

0.41
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
30m
Typical (p50) wait
50m
Busy (p90) wait
65m
Worst-case (p99)
95m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

25m
Weekday average
26m
Weekend average
1.00×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Goofy's Sky School flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

179
Recorded breakdowns
34m
Typical (median) outage
8h 45m
Longest outage (2026-09-06)
13.9
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1531m
2026-10-1548m
2026-10-1538m
2026-10-152h 24m
2026-10-142h 13m
2026-10-131h 52m
2026-10-131h 12m
2026-10-131h 3m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 72 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
11%
1
6%
8
13%
9
11%
10
11%
11
8%
12
10%
13
11%
14
10%
15
9%
16
9%
17
7%
18
6%
19
6%
20
4%
21
7%
22
8%
23
11%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 11 25 30 32 32 31 31 34 38 38 37 33 24 –
Tue 5 12 22 27 27 29 27 27 31 33 27 26 21 17 8
Wed 6 15 27 32 31 31 31 30 31 34 38 38 35 26 –
Thu 6 10 21 22 26 27 29 27 32 35 24 24 20 16 9
Fri 5 9 17 26 25 26 26 27 27 29 30 32 30 20 –
Sat 6 13 25 32 30 28 32 33 35 36 37 31 30 19 –
Sun 5 9 20 27 29 27 25 27 35 38 25 20 17 15 8

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 · 688 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 300 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Goofy's Sky School rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Incredicoaster
+6m (17%)
Toy Story Midway Mania!
+4m (16%)

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