Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Asia · Based on 19745 wait-time samples

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

0.53
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
25m
Typical (p50) wait
45m
Busy (p90) wait
65m
Worst-case (p99)
105m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

22m
Weekday average
28m
Weekend average
1.30×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

104
Recorded breakdowns
59m
Typical (median) outage
934h 36m
Longest outage (2026-08-03)
8.1
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-161h 58m
2026-10-161h 34m
2026-10-159m
2026-10-152h 15m
2026-10-1411m
2026-10-121h 39m
2026-10-1116m
2026-10-1030m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 67 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.

7
10%
8
10%
9
8%
10
8%
11
6%
12
6%
13
11%
14
12%
15
15%
16
16%
17
13%
18
18%
19
17%
20
4%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 9 23 29 38 38 34 26 26 24 17 11 – – – –
Tue 6 15 24 33 33 27 23 21 20 15 8 – – – –
Wed 6 12 19 29 27 22 16 18 13 11 8 – – – –
Thu 6 11 23 32 28 24 19 20 22 15 10 – – – –
Fri 7 18 30 40 41 36 30 29 24 23 15 – – – –
Sat 8 24 36 41 46 42 31 31 30 23 18 13 – – –
Sun 8 23 34 40 42 41 35 28 23 22 13 – – – –

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 · 542 ride-hours · within noise
+1m
Heavy Rain · 43 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 170 ride-hours · within noise

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