How often does Soarin' Around the World break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 11 real breakdown episodes for Soarin' Around the World — about 0.9 per week, spread across 9 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Soarin' Around the World usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Soarin' Around the World lasted 20 minutes (average 26 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 56 minutes, on 2026-08-22.

Soarin' Around the World Reliability & Wait Patterns

EPCOT · World Nature · Based on 18151 wait-time samples

0.55

Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)

Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.

50m

Typical (p50) wait

85m

Busy (p90) wait

120m

Worst-case (p99)

160m

All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

53m

Weekday average

44m

Weekend average

0.83×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Soarin' Around the World flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

20m

Typical (median) outage

56m

Longest outage (2026-08-22)

0.9

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-09-01	18m
2026-09-01	17m
2026-08-30	8m
2026-08-28	20m
2026-08-22	7m
2026-08-22	56m
2026-07-05	44m
2026-07-02	13m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 9 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
96%

1
100%

2
100%

3
100%

4
100%

5
100%

6
100%

7
100%

8
56%

9
0%

10
0%

11
0%

12
0%

13
0%

14
0%

15
0%

16
0%

17
0%

18
0%

19
0%

20
0%

21
79%

22
79%

23
90%

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	7	32	51	71	77	70	68	60	74	66	51	65	55	24	18
Tue	10	24	53	70	69	67	57	63	66	52	53	45	47	–	–
Wed	9	25	49	62	59	58	68	63	64	61	64	51	40	27	–
Thu	10	29	52	77	74	72	67	65	76	66	53	45	42	16	12
Fri	9	20	45	60	60	56	55	62	61	60	53	45	36	–	–
Sat	8	17	38	42	48	44	51	48	49	47	42	39	30	–	–
Sun	9	27	42	64	56	54	54	54	55	50	49	37	33	–	–

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

45m

Clear

49m

Cloudy

57m

Drizzle

51m

Partly Cloudy

55m

Rain

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Soarin' Around the World go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

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+6m (12%)

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+6m (11%)

Frozen Ever After

+5m (10%)

Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

+5m (10%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	7	32	51	71	77	70	68	60	74	66	51	65	55	24	18
Tue	10	24	53	70	69	67	57	63	66	52	53	45	47	–	–
Wed	9	25	49	62	59	58	68	63	64	61	64	51	40	27	–
Thu	10	29	52	77	74	72	67	65	76	66	53	45	42	16	12
Fri	9	20	45	60	60	56	55	62	61	60	53	45	36	–	–
Sat	8	17	38	42	48	44	51	48	49	47	42	39	30	–	–
Sun	9	27	42	64	56	54	54	54	55	50	49	37	33	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	7	32	51	71	77	70	68	60	74	66	51	65	55	24	18
Tue	10	24	53	70	69	67	57	63	66	52	53	45	47	–	–
Wed	9	25	49	62	59	58	68	63	64	61	64	51	40	27	–
Thu	10	29	52	77	74	72	67	65	76	66	53	45	42	16	12
Fri	9	20	45	60	60	56	55	62	61	60	53	45	36	–	–
Sat	8	17	38	42	48	44	51	48	49	47	42	39	30	–	–
Sun	9	27	42	64	56	54	54	54	55	50	49	37	33	–	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	7	32	51	71	77	70	68	60	74	66	51	65	55	24	18
Tue	10	24	53	70	69	67	57	63	66	52	53	45	47	–	–
Wed	9	25	49	62	59	58	68	63	64	61	64	51	40	27	–
Thu	10	29	52	77	74	72	67	65	76	66	53	45	42	16	12
Fri	9	20	45	60	60	56	55	62	61	60	53	45	36	–	–
Sat	8	17	38	42	48	44	51	48	49	47	42	39	30	–	–
Sun	9	27	42	64	56	54	54	54	55	50	49	37	33	–	–