Jungle Cruise Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Park · Based on 25418 wait-time samples

Data updated September 30, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.44
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
15m
Typical (p50) wait
35m
Busy (p90) wait
45m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

15m
Weekday average
11m
Weekend average
0.73×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

124
Recorded breakdowns
14m
Typical (median) outage
11h 26m
Longest outage (2026-09-05)
9.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-292h 14m
2026-09-2930m
2026-09-2724m
2026-09-267m
2026-09-2351m
2026-09-2218m
2026-09-227m
2026-09-2226m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 60 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
5%
1
2%
8
6%
9
4%
10
6%
11
5%
12
5%
13
6%
14
6%
15
6%
16
6%
17
6%
18
5%
19
4%
20
4%
21
5%
22
4%
23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 8 15 21 24 22 20 22 21 20 20 20 17 15 9 9
Tue 7 16 20 22 22 20 19 19 20 20 21 22 17 9 8
Wed 6 10 16 18 17 18 17 15 15 13 14 15 12 8 7
Thu 6 15 21 21 19 18 17 19 18 18 20 21 16 9 9
Fri 5 9 15 13 12 11 12 10 11 11 11 11 10 10 10
Sat 5 11 13 16 13 13 12 11 11 11 13 13 12 9 10
Sun 5 7 10 10 11 10 12 12 12 12 13 16 12 10 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 · 581 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Cloudy · 280 ride-hours · within noise

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