"it's a small world" Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hong Kong Disneyland · Based on 17324 wait-time samples

Data updated October 19, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.47
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
40m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

9m
Weekday average
12m
Weekend average
1.30×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time "it's a small world" flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

5
Recorded breakdowns
72m
Typical (median) outage
2h 21m
Longest outage (2026-09-28)
0.4
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-131h 8m
2026-09-282h 21m
2026-08-2656m
2026-08-201h 17m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 5 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
0%
11
0%
12
1%
13
1%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
0%
18
0%
19
0%
20
0%
21
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon – – – 7 8 9 14 17 11 8 6 5 5 – –
Tue – – – 5 7 10 12 12 10 6 6 5 5 – –
Wed – – – 5 7 7 9 10 11 9 6 5 5 – –
Thu – – – 5 7 10 12 13 12 8 8 6 6 – –
Fri – – – 5 7 11 16 18 14 8 6 6 6 – –
Sat – – – 6 9 10 16 24 15 11 7 5 5 – –
Sun – – – 6 9 14 18 21 17 10 8 6 5 – –

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
Light Rain · 47 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 361 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 277 ride-hours · within noise

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