How often does Soarin' Across America break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 13 real breakdown episodes for Soarin' Across America — about 1.0 per week, spread across 11 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Soarin' Across America usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Soarin' Across America lasted 30 minutes (average 48 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 153 minutes, on 2026-09-08.

Soarin' Across America Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 28032 wait-time samples

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

0.38

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

35m

Typical (p50) wait

60m

Busy (p90) wait

90m

Worst-case (p99)

165m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

33m

Weekday average

35m

Weekend average

1.08×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

30m

Typical (median) outage

2h 33m

Longest outage (2026-09-08)

1.0

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-14	35m
2026-10-03	31m
2026-09-29	23m
2026-09-29	15m
2026-09-08	2h 33m
2026-08-28	26m
2026-08-24	1h 1m
2026-08-09	29m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 11 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.

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0%

1
0%

8
1%

9
1%

10
1%

11
0%

12
0%

13
0%

14
0%

15
0%

16
1%

17
1%

18
0%

19
1%

20
2%

21
1%

22
1%

23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	13	28	37	40	41	40	43	42	48	47	43	44	36	28	–
Tue	11	26	32	36	35	34	35	41	43	48	30	32	24	21	16
Wed	14	25	34	40	38	38	38	38	43	38	42	40	38	30	–
Thu	12	19	25	33	33	31	34	39	40	39	26	25	21	19	16
Fri	11	17	26	32	31	34	35	36	36	38	38	36	37	22	–
Sat	13	22	37	45	40	41	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	24	–
Sun	13	21	32	36	38	37	40	44	48	47	32	24	20	22	17

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 · 704 ride-hours · within noise

-1m

Cloudy · 309 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Soarin' Across America is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+8m (27%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	13	28	37	40	41	40	43	42	48	47	43	44	36	28	–
Tue	11	26	32	36	35	34	35	41	43	48	30	32	24	21	16
Wed	14	25	34	40	38	38	38	38	43	38	42	40	38	30	–
Thu	12	19	25	33	33	31	34	39	40	39	26	25	21	19	16
Fri	11	17	26	32	31	34	35	36	36	38	38	36	37	22	–
Sat	13	22	37	45	40	41	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	24	–
Sun	13	21	32	36	38	37	40	44	48	47	32	24	20	22	17

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	13	28	37	40	41	40	43	42	48	47	43	44	36	28	–
Tue	11	26	32	36	35	34	35	41	43	48	30	32	24	21	16
Wed	14	25	34	40	38	38	38	38	43	38	42	40	38	30	–
Thu	12	19	25	33	33	31	34	39	40	39	26	25	21	19	16
Fri	11	17	26	32	31	34	35	36	36	38	38	36	37	22	–
Sat	13	22	37	45	40	41	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	24	–
Sun	13	21	32	36	38	37	40	44	48	47	32	24	20	22	17

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	13	28	37	40	41	40	43	42	48	47	43	44	36	28	–
Tue	11	26	32	36	35	34	35	41	43	48	30	32	24	21	16
Wed	14	25	34	40	38	38	38	38	43	38	42	40	38	30	–
Thu	12	19	25	33	33	31	34	39	40	39	26	25	21	19	16
Fri	11	17	26	32	31	34	35	36	36	38	38	36	37	22	–
Sat	13	22	37	45	40	41	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	24	–
Sun	13	21	32	36	38	37	40	44	48	47	32	24	20	22	17