20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 20535 wait-time samples

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

0.56
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
25m
Typical (p50) wait
50m
Busy (p90) wait
70m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

23m
Weekday average
20m
Weekend average
0.85×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

16
Recorded breakdowns
26m
Typical (median) outage
2h 19m
Longest outage (2026-07-22)
1.2
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-141h 18m
2026-09-241h 42m
2026-09-227m
2026-09-171h 51m
2026-09-166m
2026-09-1613m
2026-08-2321m
2026-08-217m

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.

6
0%
7
0%
8
0%
9
2%
10
1%
11
1%
12
1%
13
1%
14
1%
15
0%
16
1%
17
2%
18
2%
19
1%
20
0%
21
2%
22
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 14 37 39 38 35 34 34 28 21 16 11 6 – –
Tue – 11 36 36 33 31 31 33 26 17 14 9 6 – –
Wed – 12 37 36 32 31 32 33 25 18 14 9 5 – –
Thu – 13 39 39 36 33 34 36 30 22 16 10 6 – –
Fri – 10 28 28 23 22 21 20 18 14 12 7 5 6 5
Sat – 12 31 30 25 26 25 26 23 16 13 8 5 – –
Sun – 11 28 29 25 26 24 28 24 16 11 8 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
Cloudy · 486 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Clear · 139 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Light Rain · 45 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Heavy Rain · 65 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Journey to the Center of the Earth
+5m (21%)

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