Pirates of the Caribbean Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo Disneyland · Based on 18316 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.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
20m
Busy (p90) wait
25m
Worst-case (p99)
40m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

10m
Weekday average
12m
Weekend average
1.10×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

19
Recorded breakdowns
35m
Typical (median) outage
2h 56m
Longest outage (2026-08-25)
1.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-0716m
2026-10-032h 40m
2026-10-026m
2026-09-2214m
2026-09-1852m
2026-09-1315m
2026-08-3135m
2026-08-2810m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 17 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
3%
11
2%
12
1%
13
1%
14
0%
15
1%
16
0%
17
1%
18
0%
19
1%
20
1%
21
2%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 12 16 13 12 12 13 14 11 11 12 8 8 – –
Tue – 11 16 12 10 9 10 14 10 10 9 7 7 – –
Wed – 11 14 10 10 9 10 12 9 10 9 7 6 – –
Thu – 12 15 13 11 10 11 13 11 11 10 6 6 – –
Fri – 11 15 10 9 8 9 10 8 9 10 7 8 6 –
Sat – 13 15 10 10 12 13 16 14 13 13 8 9 – –
Sun – 12 15 11 9 10 11 14 11 12 11 8 8 – –

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 · 491 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 135 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Light Rain · 47 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Heavy Rain · 65 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Pirates of the Caribbean is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+5m (20%)
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+3m (13%)

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