Spaceship Earth Reliability & Wait Patterns
EPCOT · World Celebration · Based on 15785 wait-time samples
0.52
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Stable — waits stay close to the average throughout the day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
35m
Busy (p90) wait
45m
Worst-case (p99)
55m
All-time max
Weekend vs Weekday
20m
Weekday average
20m
Weekend average
0.97×
Weekend multiplier
Real breakdown history (last 90 days)
Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Spaceship Earth flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.
156
Recorded breakdowns
21m
Typical (median) outage
8h 8m
Longest outage (2026-08-14)
12.1
Breakdowns per week
Most recent outages
| Date | Down for |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | 7m |
| 2026-09-01 | 38m |
| 2026-08-31 | 25m |
| 2026-08-30 | 7m |
| 2026-08-29 | 2h 17m |
| 2026-08-28 | 1h 6m |
| 2026-08-27 | 22m |
| 2026-08-27 | 7m |
Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 77 different days in this window.
Downtime by hour
Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).
0
97%
97%
1
100%
100%
2
100%
100%
3
100%
100%
4
100%
100%
5
100%
100%
6
100%
100%
7
100%
100%
8
65%
65%
9
19%
19%
10
14%
14%
11
10%
10%
12
13%
13%
13
9%
9%
14
14%
14%
15
13%
13%
16
15%
15%
17
14%
14%
18
15%
15%
19
12%
12%
20
10%
10%
21
79%
79%
22
82%
82%
23
92%
92%
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 | 5 | 12 | 30 | 36 | 31 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 21 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 6 |
| Tue | 5 | 12 | 30 | 32 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 13 | – | – |
| Wed | 5 | 13 | 31 | 33 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 14 | – | – |
| Thu | 5 | 13 | 32 | 36 | 29 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 5 |
| Fri | 5 | 13 | 27 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 13 | – | – |
| Sat | 5 | 10 | 25 | 32 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 13 | – | – |
| Sun | 5 | 12 | 28 | 31 | 27 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 5 | – |
Weather effect on waits
Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:
19m
Clear
19m
Cloudy
22m
Drizzle
20m
Partly Cloudy
22m
Rain
When this ride goes down
These rides spike in wait time when Spaceship Earth is reported DOWN:
Test Track
+-5m (-6%)
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