Kilimanjaro Safaris Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Africa · Based on 20884 wait-time samples

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

0.70
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
55m
Busy (p90) wait
75m
Worst-case (p99)
120m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

24m
Weekday average
31m
Weekend average
1.28×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

7
Recorded breakdowns
43m
Typical (median) outage
48m
Longest outage (2026-10-07)
0.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-0928m
2026-10-0748m
2026-09-2543m
2026-09-0245m
2026-08-295m
2026-08-107m
2026-08-0146m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 7 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.

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1%
9
0%
10
0%
11
1%
12
0%
13
0%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
0%
18
0%
19
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 31 49 58 49 37 30 15 11 8 7 8 – – – –
Tue 24 40 50 48 29 18 11 9 7 7 8 – – – –
Wed 16 32 43 33 21 12 10 10 8 10 9 – – – –
Thu 21 34 43 39 27 17 10 9 8 8 7 – – – –
Fri 27 47 54 52 42 29 21 14 10 10 7 – – – –
Sat 30 48 58 56 46 35 25 16 12 12 10 – – – –
Sun 29 47 54 49 40 32 24 14 10 9 7 – – – –

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 · 533 ride-hours · within noise
-4m
Light Rain · 21 ride-hours · within noise
+3m
Heavy Rain · 41 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Clear · 152 ride-hours · within noise

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