How often does Jungle Cruise break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 78 real breakdown episodes for Jungle Cruise — about 6.1 per week, spread across 58 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Jungle Cruise usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Jungle Cruise lasted 42 minutes (average 66 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 315 minutes, on 2026-08-28.

Jungle Cruise Reliability & Wait Patterns

Magic Kingdom · Adventureland · Based on 26164 wait-time samples

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

0.42

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

35m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

60m

Worst-case (p99)

80m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

28m

Weekday average

27m

Weekend average

0.95×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

42m

Typical (median) outage

5h 15m

Longest outage (2026-08-28)

6.1

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-17	2h 8m
2026-10-16	31m
2026-10-14	22m
2026-10-13	34m
2026-10-10	48m
2026-10-08	5m
2026-10-07	25m
2026-10-06	32m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 58 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.

0
1%

8
0%

9
2%

10
1%

11
2%

12
2%

13
6%

14
9%

15
11%

16
12%

17
10%

18
11%

19
7%

20
4%

21
3%

22
4%

23
1%

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	–	19	34	40	40	38	36	40	39	38	43	36	25	13	8
Tue	–	18	32	33	34	30	30	30	27	32	31	22	16	11	7
Wed	–	20	35	40	40	40	36	40	42	42	41	37	27	17	14
Thu	–	19	34	36	37	34	35	36	36	38	37	32	26	13	6
Fri	6	20	32	34	33	31	30	29	31	30	31	20	14	10	7
Sat	7	18	32	37	38	34	34	36	38	39	39	36	25	12	8
Sun	8	20	32	34	32	33	30	30	33	32	34	24	16	9	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 · 636 ride-hours · within noise

-2m

Light Rain · 61 ride-hours · clear signal

-5m

Heavy Rain · 87 ride-hours · clear signal

+0m

Clear · 199 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Jungle Cruise rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Pirates of the Caribbean

+4m (12%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	19	34	40	40	38	36	40	39	38	43	36	25	13	8
Tue	–	18	32	33	34	30	30	30	27	32	31	22	16	11	7
Wed	–	20	35	40	40	40	36	40	42	42	41	37	27	17	14
Thu	–	19	34	36	37	34	35	36	36	38	37	32	26	13	6
Fri	6	20	32	34	33	31	30	29	31	30	31	20	14	10	7
Sat	7	18	32	37	38	34	34	36	38	39	39	36	25	12	8
Sun	8	20	32	34	32	33	30	30	33	32	34	24	16	9	5

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	19	34	40	40	38	36	40	39	38	43	36	25	13	8
Tue	–	18	32	33	34	30	30	30	27	32	31	22	16	11	7
Wed	–	20	35	40	40	40	36	40	42	42	41	37	27	17	14
Thu	–	19	34	36	37	34	35	36	36	38	37	32	26	13	6
Fri	6	20	32	34	33	31	30	29	31	30	31	20	14	10	7
Sat	7	18	32	37	38	34	34	36	38	39	39	36	25	12	8
Sun	8	20	32	34	32	33	30	30	33	32	34	24	16	9	5

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	19	34	40	40	38	36	40	39	38	43	36	25	13	8
Tue	–	18	32	33	34	30	30	30	27	32	31	22	16	11	7
Wed	–	20	35	40	40	40	36	40	42	42	41	37	27	17	14
Thu	–	19	34	36	37	34	35	36	36	38	37	32	26	13	6
Fri	6	20	32	34	33	31	30	29	31	30	31	20	14	10	7
Sat	7	18	32	37	38	34	34	36	38	39	39	36	25	12	8
Sun	8	20	32	34	32	33	30	30	33	32	34	24	16	9	5