How often does Soaring Over the Horizon break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 3 real breakdown episodes for Soaring Over the Horizon — about 0.2 per week, spread across 3 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Soaring Over the Horizon usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Soaring Over the Horizon lasted 11 minutes (average 9 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 11 minutes, on 2026-09-10.

Soaring Over the Horizon Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 27469 wait-time samples

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

0.39

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

60m

Typical (p50) wait

105m

Busy (p90) wait

135m

Worst-case (p99)

180m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

64m

Weekday average

62m

Weekend average

0.97×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

11m

Typical (median) outage

11m

Longest outage (2026-09-10)

0.2

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-03	11m
2026-09-10	11m
2026-09-09	6m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 3 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.

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1%

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1%

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23
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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	32	60	68	70	70	71	73	82	77	73	68	61	41	18	–
Tue	36	76	77	83	77	81	83	86	84	81	76	65	43	26	–
Wed	32	63	70	74	70	68	70	74	69	71	62	55	43	30	–
Thu	32	61	73	74	70	68	76	75	70	72	70	55	36	21	–
Fri	36	71	79	80	80	70	77	86	80	78	69	65	50	30	31
Sat	31	61	72	78	73	69	77	81	76	70	70	55	38	21	24
Sun	33	65	80	77	70	67	77	88	78	68	62	51	39	17	–

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 · 289 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Cloudy · 664 ride-hours · within noise

-6m

Light Rain · 57 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Soaring Over the Horizon rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+22m (34%)

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+6m (9%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	32	60	68	70	70	71	73	82	77	73	68	61	41	18	–
Tue	36	76	77	83	77	81	83	86	84	81	76	65	43	26	–
Wed	32	63	70	74	70	68	70	74	69	71	62	55	43	30	–
Thu	32	61	73	74	70	68	76	75	70	72	70	55	36	21	–
Fri	36	71	79	80	80	70	77	86	80	78	69	65	50	30	31
Sat	31	61	72	78	73	69	77	81	76	70	70	55	38	21	24
Sun	33	65	80	77	70	67	77	88	78	68	62	51	39	17	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	32	60	68	70	70	71	73	82	77	73	68	61	41	18	–
Tue	36	76	77	83	77	81	83	86	84	81	76	65	43	26	–
Wed	32	63	70	74	70	68	70	74	69	71	62	55	43	30	–
Thu	32	61	73	74	70	68	76	75	70	72	70	55	36	21	–
Fri	36	71	79	80	80	70	77	86	80	78	69	65	50	30	31
Sat	31	61	72	78	73	69	77	81	76	70	70	55	38	21	24
Sun	33	65	80	77	70	67	77	88	78	68	62	51	39	17	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	32	60	68	70	70	71	73	82	77	73	68	61	41	18	–
Tue	36	76	77	83	77	81	83	86	84	81	76	65	43	26	–
Wed	32	63	70	74	70	68	70	74	69	71	62	55	43	30	–
Thu	32	61	73	74	70	68	76	75	70	72	70	55	36	21	–
Fri	36	71	79	80	80	70	77	86	80	78	69	65	50	30	31
Sat	31	61	72	78	73	69	77	81	76	70	70	55	38	21	24
Sun	33	65	80	77	70	67	77	88	78	68	62	51	39	17	–