How often does Na'vi River Journey break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 12 real breakdown episodes for Na'vi River Journey — about 0.9 per week, spread across 11 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Na'vi River Journey usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Na'vi River Journey lasted 22 minutes (average 22 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 48 minutes, on 2026-10-13.

Na'vi River Journey Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Pandora - The World of Avatar · Based on 21855 wait-time samples

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

0.36

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

40m

Typical (p50) wait

55m

Busy (p90) wait

75m

Worst-case (p99)

90m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

34m

Weekday average

38m

Weekend average

1.13×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

Recorded breakdowns

22m

Typical (median) outage

48m

Longest outage (2026-10-13)

0.9

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-13	48m
2026-09-27	36m
2026-09-20	32m
2026-09-16	6m
2026-09-16	19m
2026-09-02	26m
2026-08-25	14m
2026-08-23	19m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 11 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
4%

8
3%

9
3%

10
3%

11
1%

12
2%

13
2%

14
1%

15
1%

16
2%

17
1%

18
1%

19
0%

20
0%

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	22	39	43	48	46	44	40	37	36	31	20	–	–	–	–
Tue	17	31	41	47	44	39	40	36	32	30	23	–	–	–	–
Wed	15	28	40	44	40	34	34	31	23	19	14	9	–	–	–
Thu	16	30	40	44	44	41	39	32	27	25	18	–	–	–	–
Fri	19	35	44	48	48	43	45	43	38	38	30	–	–	–	–
Sat	23	34	49	50	50	44	45	44	44	44	31	31	–	–	–
Sun	22	35	44	50	49	45	43	42	37	37	25	–	–	–	–

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 · 586 ride-hours · within noise

-6m

Light Rain · 21 ride-hours · clear signal

-5m

Heavy Rain · 46 ride-hours · clear signal

+0m

Clear · 170 ride-hours · within noise

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	22	39	43	48	46	44	40	37	36	31	20	–	–	–	–
Tue	17	31	41	47	44	39	40	36	32	30	23	–	–	–	–
Wed	15	28	40	44	40	34	34	31	23	19	14	9	–	–	–
Thu	16	30	40	44	44	41	39	32	27	25	18	–	–	–	–
Fri	19	35	44	48	48	43	45	43	38	38	30	–	–	–	–
Sat	23	34	49	50	50	44	45	44	44	44	31	31	–	–	–
Sun	22	35	44	50	49	45	43	42	37	37	25	–	–	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	22	39	43	48	46	44	40	37	36	31	20	–	–	–	–
Tue	17	31	41	47	44	39	40	36	32	30	23	–	–	–	–
Wed	15	28	40	44	40	34	34	31	23	19	14	9	–	–	–
Thu	16	30	40	44	44	41	39	32	27	25	18	–	–	–	–
Fri	19	35	44	48	48	43	45	43	38	38	30	–	–	–	–
Sat	23	34	49	50	50	44	45	44	44	44	31	31	–	–	–
Sun	22	35	44	50	49	45	43	42	37	37	25	–	–	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	22	39	43	48	46	44	40	37	36	31	20	–	–	–	–
Tue	17	31	41	47	44	39	40	36	32	30	23	–	–	–	–
Wed	15	28	40	44	40	34	34	31	23	19	14	9	–	–	–
Thu	16	30	40	44	44	41	39	32	27	25	18	–	–	–	–
Fri	19	35	44	48	48	43	45	43	38	38	30	–	–	–	–
Sat	23	34	49	50	50	44	45	44	44	44	31	31	–	–	–
Sun	22	35	44	50	49	45	43	42	37	37	25	–	–	–	–