Kali River Rapids Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Asia · Based on 16181 wait-time samples

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

0.51
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
30m
Typical (p50) wait
55m
Busy (p90) wait
80m
Worst-case (p99)
120m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

28m
Weekday average
30m
Weekend average
1.11×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

99
Recorded breakdowns
60m
Typical (median) outage
4h 41m
Longest outage (2026-07-30)
7.7
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-151h 7m
2026-10-1529m
2026-10-1437m
2026-10-1127m
2026-10-1047m
2026-10-106m
2026-10-0435m
2026-10-031h 3m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 63 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.

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

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 8 22 32 41 46 43 39 30 22 24 – – – –
Tue – 7 13 30 37 41 42 32 24 24 23 – – – –
Wed – 7 12 24 28 32 40 35 22 20 13 – – – –
Thu – 6 12 25 29 35 34 25 16 15 20 – – – –
Fri – 7 19 34 48 41 44 38 30 37 24 – – – –
Sat – 9 23 40 44 48 42 43 37 31 25 11 – – –
Sun – 7 21 32 46 46 41 32 28 21 14 – – – –

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 · 444 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 130 ride-hours · within noise
-4m
Heavy Rain · 37 ride-hours · clear signal

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Kali River Rapids rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+11m (36%)

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