Dumbo the Flying Elephant Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 21024 wait-time samples

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

0.42
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
30m
Typical (p50) wait
50m
Busy (p90) wait
60m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

26m
Weekday average
26m
Weekend average
1.02×
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.

20
Recorded breakdowns
38m
Typical (median) outage
3h 1m
Longest outage (2026-08-01)
1.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-09-3059m
2026-09-046m
2026-09-0432m
2026-09-0222m
2026-08-2040m
2026-08-1420m
2026-08-1428m
2026-08-0537m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 15 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.

8
2%
9
1%
10
0%
11
1%
12
1%
13
2%
14
3%
15
3%
16
3%
17
2%
18
2%
19
5%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 6 24 31 27 20 21 24 22 28 29 32 30 – – –
Tue 6 32 38 32 26 28 29 27 31 34 33 34 – – –
Wed 5 25 33 28 22 20 21 21 24 27 29 24 – – –
Thu 5 26 34 25 22 20 24 22 29 29 30 28 – – –
Fri 6 27 36 31 24 21 26 26 32 33 33 34 – – –
Sat 6 26 33 25 20 20 25 23 28 30 33 36 – – –
Sun 6 26 36 30 23 22 29 28 31 29 31 33 – – –

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 · 229 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Cloudy · 537 ride-hours · within noise
-3m
Light Rain · 35 ride-hours · clear signal

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