Dumbo the Flying Elephant Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hong Kong Disneyland · Based on 17151 wait-time samples

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

0.40
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
40m
Worst-case (p99)
120m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

18m
Weekday average
23m
Weekend average
1.24×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

7
Recorded breakdowns
35m
Typical (median) outage
4h 5m
Longest outage (2026-07-31)
0.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-08-1735m
2026-08-178m
2026-08-1130m
2026-07-314h 5m
2026-07-3017m
2026-07-2155m
2026-07-202h 8m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 6 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.

10
1%
11
2%
12
2%
13
3%
14
3%
15
3%
16
2%
17
2%
18
2%
19
2%
20
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – – 8 11 18 21 23 26 26 24 24 26 – – –
Tue – – 9 12 18 20 20 24 24 18 21 24 – – –
Wed – – 7 9 13 12 13 18 18 16 17 21 – – –
Thu – – 8 13 13 16 17 17 21 21 25 27 – – –
Fri – – 8 13 19 17 19 22 23 21 22 24 – – –
Sat – – 9 15 18 18 22 27 30 28 32 31 – – –
Sun – – 10 18 21 21 22 29 25 25 27 25 – – –

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.

+5m
Light Rain · 57 ride-hours · clear signal
0m
Cloudy · 347 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 251 ride-hours · within noise

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