Under the Sea - Journey of The Little Mermaid Reliability & Wait Patterns

Magic Kingdom · Fantasyland · Based on 28491 wait-time samples

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

0.60
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
25m
Busy (p90) wait
40m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

12m
Weekday average
13m
Weekend average
1.11×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Under the Sea - Journey of The Little Mermaid flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

49
Recorded breakdowns
11m
Typical (median) outage
2h 15m
Longest outage (2026-08-05)
3.8
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-165m
2026-10-1411m
2026-10-118m
2026-10-116m
2026-10-106m
2026-10-055m
2026-10-031h 6m
2026-10-026m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 36 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%
1
0%
7
12%
8
8%
9
5%
10
2%
11
1%
12
1%
13
2%
14
2%
15
2%
16
3%
17
2%
18
1%
19
2%
20
2%
21
2%
22
1%
23
1%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon 5 5 7 11 18 17 19 21 19 16 16 20 13 5 5
Tue 5 5 7 11 12 13 13 11 13 14 16 12 11 6 5
Wed 5 5 8 14 18 22 17 21 23 21 21 20 16 8 5
Thu 5 5 6 11 17 16 17 16 17 19 18 14 10 5 5
Fri 5 5 6 8 9 10 9 9 8 11 10 9 8 5 5
Sat 6 6 6 12 18 20 19 21 27 28 25 25 17 5 5
Sun 6 6 7 11 14 13 13 12 12 13 12 8 6 5 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 · 698 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Light Rain · 64 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Heavy Rain · 101 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 218 ride-hours · within noise

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