Jumpin' Jellyfish Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 26808 wait-time samples

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

0.52
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
15m
Busy (p90) wait
25m
Worst-case (p99)
45m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

8m
Weekday average
8m
Weekend average
1.04×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

47
Recorded breakdowns
20m
Typical (median) outage
4h 43m
Longest outage (2026-10-07)
3.7
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1618m
2026-10-0923m
2026-10-085m
2026-10-074h 43m
2026-10-0611m
2026-10-0638m
2026-10-0611m
2026-10-0537m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 33 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
2%
9
3%
10
2%
11
2%
12
2%
13
1%
14
1%
15
1%
16
1%
17
0%
18
1%
19
2%
20
2%
21
3%
22
7%
23
1%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 6 6 6 7 8 7 6 8 9 13 12 8 –
Tue 5 5 6 5 5 7 6 6 6 7 8 9 10 8 5
Wed 5 6 7 6 6 9 6 6 7 6 8 13 15 13 –
Thu 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 9 11 13 10 7
Fri 5 5 6 7 6 7 7 7 7 6 6 13 18 11 –
Sat 5 5 8 8 8 10 11 9 7 7 6 12 15 10 –
Sun 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 8 9 8 7

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 · 694 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Cloudy · 301 ride-hours · within noise

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