How often does Space Mountain break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 110 real breakdown episodes for Space Mountain — about 8.6 per week, spread across 67 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Space Mountain usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Space Mountain lasted 33 minutes (average 47 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 949 minutes, on 2026-06-17.

Space Mountain Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disneyland Park · Based on 17479 wait-time samples

0.30

Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)

Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.

60m

Typical (p50) wait

80m

Busy (p90) wait

100m

Worst-case (p99)

130m

All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

59m

Weekday average

58m

Weekend average

0.98×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

110

Recorded breakdowns

33m

Typical (median) outage

15h 49m

Longest outage (2026-06-17)

8.6

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-09-01	50m
2026-08-31	1h 32m
2026-08-30	3h 6m
2026-08-30	52m
2026-08-30	1h 40m
2026-08-30	26m
2026-08-29	6m
2026-08-27	44m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 67 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
10%

1
11%

2
74%

3
97%

4
99%

5
100%

6
99%

7
99%

8
99%

9
100%

10
99%

11
15%

12
7%

13
8%

14
3%

15
5%

16
8%

17
7%

18
5%

19
6%

20
2%

21
5%

22
3%

23
4%

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	–	–	–	37	43	53	56	66	72	69	66	59	68	63	64
Tue	–	–	–	41	43	55	56	60	62	66	69	66	66	72	76
Wed	–	–	–	43	39	57	57	60	66	71	65	69	70	68	64
Thu	–	–	–	40	47	59	59	56	65	54	59	63	61	62	66
Fri	–	–	–	38	49	58	60	57	62	64	63	62	67	71	64
Sat	–	–	–	43	48	55	59	69	59	71	67	72	68	65	64
Sun	–	–	–	39	45	51	59	53	56	56	52	58	53	54	44

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

59m

Clear

59m

Cloudy

54m

Drizzle

56m

Partly Cloudy

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Space Mountain go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

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+15m (26%)

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters

+8m (13%)

Sailing Ship Columbia

+6m (9%)

Storybook Land Canal Boats

+-5m (-9%)

Dumbo the Flying Elephant

+-7m (-11%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	–	–	37	43	53	56	66	72	69	66	59	68	63	64
Tue	–	–	–	41	43	55	56	60	62	66	69	66	66	72	76
Wed	–	–	–	43	39	57	57	60	66	71	65	69	70	68	64
Thu	–	–	–	40	47	59	59	56	65	54	59	63	61	62	66
Fri	–	–	–	38	49	58	60	57	62	64	63	62	67	71	64
Sat	–	–	–	43	48	55	59	69	59	71	67	72	68	65	64
Sun	–	–	–	39	45	51	59	53	56	56	52	58	53	54	44

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	–	–	37	43	53	56	66	72	69	66	59	68	63	64
Tue	–	–	–	41	43	55	56	60	62	66	69	66	66	72	76
Wed	–	–	–	43	39	57	57	60	66	71	65	69	70	68	64
Thu	–	–	–	40	47	59	59	56	65	54	59	63	61	62	66
Fri	–	–	–	38	49	58	60	57	62	64	63	62	67	71	64
Sat	–	–	–	43	48	55	59	69	59	71	67	72	68	65	64
Sun	–	–	–	39	45	51	59	53	56	56	52	58	53	54	44

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	–	–	37	43	53	56	66	72	69	66	59	68	63	64
Tue	–	–	–	41	43	55	56	60	62	66	69	66	66	72	76
Wed	–	–	–	43	39	57	57	60	66	71	65	69	70	68	64
Thu	–	–	–	40	47	59	59	56	65	54	59	63	61	62	66
Fri	–	–	–	38	49	58	60	57	62	64	63	62	67	71	64
Sat	–	–	–	43	48	55	59	69	59	71	67	72	68	65	64
Sun	–	–	–	39	45	51	59	53	56	56	52	58	53	54	44