How often does Roaring Rapids break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 35 real breakdown episodes for Roaring Rapids — about 2.7 per week, spread across 24 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Roaring Rapids usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Roaring Rapids lasted 40 minutes (average 59 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 205 minutes, on 2026-08-09.

Roaring Rapids Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 26569 wait-time samples

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

0.48

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.

40m

Typical (p50) wait

90m

Busy (p90) wait

135m

Worst-case (p99)

165m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

51m

Weekday average

46m

Weekend average

0.91×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

40m

Typical (median) outage

3h 25m

Longest outage (2026-08-09)

2.7

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-04	15m
2026-09-25	6m
2026-09-24	6m
2026-09-18	6m
2026-09-13	7m
2026-09-11	1h 56m
2026-09-02	22m
2026-09-01	5m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 24 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.

0
0%

1
0%

3
0%

5
0%

7
3%

8
3%

9
3%

10
3%

11
2%

12
2%

13
3%

14
3%

15
3%

16
3%

17
3%

18
3%

19
4%

20
6%

21
4%

22
0%

23
0%

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	25	46	54	52	46	61	56	63	68	63	55	42	29	13	–
Tue	29	64	65	71	61	76	72	76	74	72	59	41	29	16	–
Wed	21	46	55	59	50	56	55	57	60	58	49	38	21	12	–
Thu	20	46	57	56	49	59	60	64	65	61	55	41	26	15	–
Fri	23	57	63	60	53	61	66	70	69	71	71	53	33	16	–
Sat	20	52	58	58	51	50	58	59	57	58	57	37	22	13	–
Sun	19	50	61	56	54	54	55	55	60	56	52	40	24	11	–

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.

-1m

Clear · 288 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Cloudy · 665 ride-hours · within noise

-7m

Light Rain · 57 ride-hours · clear signal

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Roaring Rapids is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Soaring Over the Horizon

+22m (34%)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

+7m (22%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Roaring Rapids rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Zootopia: Hot Pursuit

+7m (16%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	25	46	54	52	46	61	56	63	68	63	55	42	29	13	–
Tue	29	64	65	71	61	76	72	76	74	72	59	41	29	16	–
Wed	21	46	55	59	50	56	55	57	60	58	49	38	21	12	–
Thu	20	46	57	56	49	59	60	64	65	61	55	41	26	15	–
Fri	23	57	63	60	53	61	66	70	69	71	71	53	33	16	–
Sat	20	52	58	58	51	50	58	59	57	58	57	37	22	13	–
Sun	19	50	61	56	54	54	55	55	60	56	52	40	24	11	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	25	46	54	52	46	61	56	63	68	63	55	42	29	13	–
Tue	29	64	65	71	61	76	72	76	74	72	59	41	29	16	–
Wed	21	46	55	59	50	56	55	57	60	58	49	38	21	12	–
Thu	20	46	57	56	49	59	60	64	65	61	55	41	26	15	–
Fri	23	57	63	60	53	61	66	70	69	71	71	53	33	16	–
Sat	20	52	58	58	51	50	58	59	57	58	57	37	22	13	–
Sun	19	50	61	56	54	54	55	55	60	56	52	40	24	11	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	25	46	54	52	46	61	56	63	68	63	55	42	29	13	–
Tue	29	64	65	71	61	76	72	76	74	72	59	41	29	16	–
Wed	21	46	55	59	50	56	55	57	60	58	49	38	21	12	–
Thu	20	46	57	56	49	59	60	64	65	61	55	41	26	15	–
Fri	23	57	63	60	53	61	66	70	69	71	71	53	33	16	–
Sat	20	52	58	58	51	50	58	59	57	58	57	37	22	13	–
Sun	19	50	61	56	54	54	55	55	60	56	52	40	24	11	–