How often does Soarin' Across America break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 12 real breakdown episodes for Soarin' Across America — about 0.9 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 49 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 27923 wait-time samples

Data updated October 19, 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)

120m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

33m

Weekday average

35m

Weekend average

1.05×

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)

0.9

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-23	31m
2026-10-21	22m
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

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
1%

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	14	29	39	40	42	40	44	43	47	46	43	42	35	25	–
Tue	12	28	32	36	36	34	36	41	43	44	28	28	22	20	16
Wed	14	26	35	41	40	39	40	40	45	39	42	42	40	30	–
Thu	12	19	24	34	32	31	34	39	40	39	24	23	19	20	17
Fri	12	18	28	33	32	35	36	36	37	38	39	36	38	23	–
Sat	13	23	37	46	41	42	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	23	–
Sun	12	21	33	36	37	36	40	44	48	46	30	20	17	22	18

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 · 778 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Cloudy · 340 ride-hours · within noise

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	14	29	39	40	42	40	44	43	47	46	43	42	35	25	–
Tue	12	28	32	36	36	34	36	41	43	44	28	28	22	20	16
Wed	14	26	35	41	40	39	40	40	45	39	42	42	40	30	–
Thu	12	19	24	34	32	31	34	39	40	39	24	23	19	20	17
Fri	12	18	28	33	32	35	36	36	37	38	39	36	38	23	–
Sat	13	23	37	46	41	42	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	23	–
Sun	12	21	33	36	37	36	40	44	48	46	30	20	17	22	18

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	14	29	39	40	42	40	44	43	47	46	43	42	35	25	–
Tue	12	28	32	36	36	34	36	41	43	44	28	28	22	20	16
Wed	14	26	35	41	40	39	40	40	45	39	42	42	40	30	–
Thu	12	19	24	34	32	31	34	39	40	39	24	23	19	20	17
Fri	12	18	28	33	32	35	36	36	37	38	39	36	38	23	–
Sat	13	23	37	46	41	42	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	23	–
Sun	12	21	33	36	37	36	40	44	48	46	30	20	17	22	18

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	14	29	39	40	42	40	44	43	47	46	43	42	35	25	–
Tue	12	28	32	36	36	34	36	41	43	44	28	28	22	20	16
Wed	14	26	35	41	40	39	40	40	45	39	42	42	40	30	–
Thu	12	19	24	34	32	31	34	39	40	39	24	23	19	20	17
Fri	12	18	28	33	32	35	36	36	37	38	39	36	38	23	–
Sat	13	23	37	46	41	42	44	45	47	47	45	42	37	23	–
Sun	12	21	33	36	37	36	40	44	48	46	30	20	17	22	18