“it's a small world” Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo Disneyland · Based on 19774 wait-time samples

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

0.44
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
15m
Busy (p90) wait
30m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

9m
Weekday average
10m
Weekend average
1.13×
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.

41
Recorded breakdowns
50m
Typical (median) outage
2h 9m
Longest outage (2026-09-05)
3.2
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-051h 25m
2026-10-0218m
2026-10-0218m
2026-09-2220m
2026-09-2157m
2026-09-141h 44m
2026-09-131h 49m
2026-09-101h 14m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 35 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
1%
10
1%
11
1%
12
0%
13
0%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
0%
18
3%
19
4%
20
10%
21
6%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 6 10 11 10 10 12 10 8 7 9 7 5 – –
Tue – 6 8 11 11 10 12 11 11 9 10 8 7 – –
Wed – 6 8 10 9 8 11 10 8 8 10 7 5 – –
Thu – 5 10 10 9 9 11 9 8 8 10 7 5 – –
Fri – 5 9 10 9 7 10 9 7 6 8 7 5 6 –
Sat – 6 11 11 11 10 12 11 10 10 12 7 7 – –
Sun – 7 13 11 9 10 12 10 9 9 10 8 6 – –

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 · 445 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Clear · 129 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Light Rain · 47 ride-hours · clear signal
+0m
Heavy Rain · 64 ride-hours · within noise

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