Every week, we report the average Disney World wait times in every park so that you can be prepared for your next trip to Orlando!
Magic Kingdom
Disney World wait times have been pretty low lately. Of course, even during this slower time of year, some of Disney’s popular attractions still reported wait times close to 60 minutes. Nevertheless, wait times, perhaps impacted by Lighting Lane Multi Pass, remained low overall.
Take a look at this week’s average wait times!
Magic Kingdom Wait Times
Wait times at the Magic Kingdom stayed relatively stable once again this week, even with the closure of The Jungle Cruise.
(REMINDER: TRON Lightcycle / Run has opened a standby queue for the first time in its history this week. However, given that the ride was not on a standby queue for the full week, it does not have a full week of average wait times yet. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is still using a virtual queue.)
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train — 44 minutes
- Peter Pan’s Flight — 40 minutes
- Haunted Mansion — 29 minutes
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad — 28 minutes
- Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh — 27 minutes
- Space Mountain — 25 minutes
“After all…”
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin — 19 minutes
- Enchanted Tales with Belle — 19 minutes
- Pirates of the Caribbean — 16 minutes
- Astro Orbiter — 15 minutes
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic — 14 minutes
- Country Bear Musical Jamboree — 14 minutes
- “it’s a small world” — 13 minutes
- Liberty Square Riverboat — 12 minutes
- Enchanted Tiki Room — 11 minutes
- Tomorrowland Speedway — 10 minutes
Astro Orbiter
- Barnstormer featuring the Great Goofini — 9 minutes
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant — 8 minutes
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover — 8 minutes
- Magic Carpets of Aladdin — 8 minutes
- Tom Sawyer Island — 8 minutes
Carousel of Progress
- Mad Tea Party — 7 minutes
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel — 6 minutes
- Carousel of Progress — 5 minutes
- Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse — 4 minutes
- Hall of Presidents — 0 minutes
The Jungle Cruise is currently closed for refurbishment.
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EPCOT Wait Times
The wait times in EPCOT are about the same this week, likely indicating that these will be the standard times during the duration of the 2024 International Food & Wine Festival.
(NOTE: Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind does not currently use a standby queue, so it’s not included here.)
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- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure — 51 minutes
- Frozen Ever After — 46 minutes
- Soarin’ — 24 minutes
- Turtle Talk with Crush — 15 minutes
- Living with the Land — 13 minutes
- Mission: SPACE — 11 minutes
Gran Fiesta Tour
- Journey into Imagination — 12 minutes
- Spaceship Earth — 10 minutes
- The Seas with Nemo and Friends — 10 minutes
- Gran Fiesta Tour — 9 minutes
Test Track, Awesome Planet, Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along, Disney and Pixar Short Film Festival, Impressions de France, and Reflections of China had no wait times this week.
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Animal Kingdom Wait Times
Animal Kingdom’s Flight of Passage dipped EVEN more this week, dropping to an average of 55 minutes. That’s one of the shortest waits for this groundbreaking attraction we’ve seen in months.
Flight of Passage (Yep, it’s in there)
- Avatar Flight of Passage — 55 minutes
- Na’vi River Journey — 46 minutes
- Kilimanjaro Safaris — 28 minutes
- Expedition Everest — 23 minutes
TriceraTop Spin
- Kali River Rapids — 21 minutes
- Dinosaur — 21 minutes
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug — 9 minutes
- TriceraTop Spin — 5 minutes
- The Boneyard — 0 minutes
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Hollywood Studios Wait Times
Even with Flight of Passage dipping, the Animal Kingdom attraction still overtook Hollywood Studios‘ Slinky Dog Dash, which itself fell to 53 minutes.
Slinky Dog Dash
- Slinky Dog Dash — 53 minutes
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster — 42 minutes
- Rise of the Resistance — 42 minutes
- Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway — 39 minutes
Toy Story Mania
- Toy Story Mania — 38 minutes
- Tower of Terror — 31 minutes
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run — 28 minutes
- Alien Swirling Saucers — 21 minutes
Muppet*Vision
- Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy — 15 minutes
- Muppet*Vision 3D — 10 minutes
- Star Tours — 7 minutes
- Walt Disney Presents — 0 minutes
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Sadly, many of the rides post Eisner are too dark to see, scary or make me sick….so we seldom go to the parks for the rides anymore. And frankly, standing around in line is tiring and feels wasteful! We only wait 20 minutes or less for our fave rides. More than that, we just have to miss them. We never ride the newer major rides everyone seems to enjoy, so we save a lot of money not buying lightning lane and spend our wdw time enjoying many of the free activities in and out of parks. Our fave rides:
Magic Kingdom: Jungle Cruise, POTC but too fast to see everything in the dark, Tiki Room, Swiss Family Robinson Tree House, Aladdin if we have the grandkids with us, Haunted Mansion a must, Muppets in Liberty Square, It’s a Small World and Carousel of Progress. If a short line: Tiana, Peter Pan, Little Mermaid, Pooh, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, teacups, carousel. We seldom go into Tomorrow Land.
Animal Kingdom: This has negatively changed so much. Used to be my fave park but now only go for Kilimanjaro Safari, walk the animals paths, train to Conservation Station, maybe Kali River Rapids. Wait time for Avatar River ride usually too long. That’s it. Half a day 🙁
Hollywood Studios has nothing anymore for us :-(. We love Star Wars and Indy but they’re not Disney and we’re not huge fans of Toy Story (or Cars, Monsters Inc or Encanto). Disney seems to be leaving behind most of its original movies and tv programming and we feel has lost its magic and pixie dust. Miss the sorcerer’s hat!
Epcot: Love Spaceship Earth and new Moana water plus Living with the Land. Might take boat ride in Mexico. Norway ruined as is Morocco. Walk around the other countries. Wish they’d get new countries such as Greece, India, Ireland. They had a fantastic variety in 2000 for the Millennium celebration along with a great parade. One of our favorite trips!
Free or other things we love: Can easily spend half a day at Animal Kingdom Lodge! Boat rides everywhere. Mini golf! Disney Springs. Horseback riding at Fort Wilderness (costs $). Lots less people running you over, can stop and admire the theming and ambience, enjoy eating at our fave places….Restful, not stressful!
I’ve always wanted to do a September trip to take advantage of these low wait times, but I don’t think I could handle the heat lol!
I am on a two week vacation at WDW right now. While Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th were pretty full (Magic Kingdom would not allow me a park reservation on Saturday) the weekdays felt like the park was empty (relatively speaking of course) a 35min wait time for pirates seems like a mini vacation compared to the 90+ min I have suffered in the past.
The wait times are definitely not an indication as to how busy it is! Here now and the wait times are not bad but it IS crowded.
Maybe WDW would have better attendance if they still allowed disabled folks like myself to use the DAS. I haven’t bought my park passes for a January trip yet (for a while now, I’ve had my hotel and flights booked and paid for – but those are easily cancelled with a full refund), because I’m hoping WDW will see the logic of people like myself paying $110+/day – not even including meals, drinks, snacks, etc. But, instead, they want to try to squeeze an extra $25/day out of me for a substandard product – one that’s completely useless/ineffective for my needs, so ultimately they will wind up with ZERO. $110+/day vs.$0/day – pretty simple math, really.