The Seas with Nemo & Friends Reliability & Wait Patterns

EPCOT · World Nature · Based on 24656 wait-time samples

Data updated October 19, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.76
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
45m
Worst-case (p99)
70m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

12m
Weekday average
11m
Weekend average
0.91×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time The Seas with Nemo & Friends flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

94
Recorded breakdowns
12m
Typical (median) outage
1h 59m
Longest outage (2026-08-24)
7.3
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-195m
2026-10-195m
2026-10-197m
2026-10-185m
2026-10-1711m
2026-10-1711m
2026-10-1733m
2026-10-1411m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 55 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.

0
0%
8
7%
9
3%
10
3%
11
2%
12
2%
13
3%
14
3%
15
2%
16
3%
17
5%
18
4%
19
4%
20
2%
21
3%
22
6%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 5 25 34 30 19 12 11 9 7 6 6 5 5 5
Tue 5 5 12 28 27 19 12 11 10 9 9 7 6 – –
Wed 5 5 14 22 24 15 8 8 8 6 5 5 5 – –
Thu 5 6 14 26 26 14 13 10 7 8 6 6 6 6 5
Fri 5 5 16 24 24 18 10 12 10 9 11 9 7 – –
Sat 5 5 10 24 23 16 8 9 9 9 7 5 6 – –
Sun 5 5 15 21 19 17 11 10 8 9 7 6 5 – –

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 · 653 ride-hours · within noise
+2m
Heavy Rain · 82 ride-hours · clear signal
-0m
Clear · 252 ride-hours · within noise
+2m
Light Rain · 47 ride-hours · clear signal

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