Daily Park Report: January 18, 2026
Tiana's Bayou Adventure averaged a 5-minute wait yesterday. You read that correctly. Magic Kingdom's newest headliner—the attraction that regularly commands 60-90 minute queues—dropped 83% below i...
Tiana's Bayou Adventure averaged a 5-minute wait yesterday. You read that correctly. Magic Kingdom's newest headliner—the attraction that regularly commands 60-90 minute queues—dropped 83% below i...
Guests who waited out the holiday rush were rewarded this week. January 11-17 delivered a resort-wide median wait of just 20 minutes—a 43% drop from the peak holiday week two weeks prior. Sunday and...
Saturday delivered the most extreme crowd split we have seen in weeks: Hollywood Studios registered a 10/10 crowd level with 51-minute median waits while EPCOT, just a short Skyliner ride away, sat at...
The same Friday produced radically different experiences depending on where you toured. Hollywood Studios surged to a 9/10 crowd level with 48-minute median waits—20% above its 30-day average—whil...
Tiana's Bayou Adventure posted a 5-minute average wait yesterday. Five minutes. For Magic Kingdom's newest headliner attraction that routinely commands 60-plus minute queues. That single data point te...
Wednesday delivered something rare across Walt Disney World: all four parks simultaneously posted wait times well below their 30-day averages. Animal Kingdom plummeted 48% below normal. EPCOT dropped ...
Frozen Ever After is showing 35 minutes—down from its usual 50. Lightning Brain labels it "Low." Meanwhile, Space Mountain is at 25 minutes—also down from its usual 37. Lightning Brain calls it "Typical."
Avatar Flight of Passage at 45 minutes. That number alone tells the story of Tuesday, January 13th. Disney's most popular attraction—the one that routinely commands 90+ minute waits during peak peri...
A 49% plunge in wait times at Animal Kingdom created the widest park split we've seen in weeks. Yesterday's Monday data reveals a tale of two resorts: guests packed into Magic Kingdom for a 7/10 crowd...
Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend turned Sunday into a touring unicorn: all four parks registered crowd levels of 3/10 or below, with wait times plummeting 37% to 50% below their 30-day averages. Whi...
Presidents Day weekend beats Christmas. That's not a typo. February 15, 2025 posted a 32.9-minute average wait time across Walt Disney World—higher than any single day during Christmas week. The four-day stretch from February 14-17 averaged 31.4 minu...
Resort-wide median wait times dropped 43% from the previous week. That's not a typo. After the holiday surge pushed the December 28-January 3 period to 35-minute medians, this week crashed back to 20 ...
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Saturday delivered something rare at Walt Disney World: every single park came in below its 30-day average, with EPCOT plunging a staggering 42% below normal. For guests who braved the 82-degree Janua...
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Walk-on waits at Dumbo. Five-minute queues for Spaceship Earth. A 75% drop at Living with the Land. Friday's data tells a clear story: Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend creates one of the best tourin...
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A 60% drop from normal. That's what Animal Kingdom delivered yesterday—a 1/10 crowd level that turned the park into a walk-on paradise. Meanwhile, headliner attractions across all four parks staged ...
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A 56% drop from normal. That's what Animal Kingdom recorded yesterday—the kind of number that turns a typical Wednesday into something closer to a private tour. While one park emptied out, Hollywood...
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Magic Kingdom recorded an 8/10 crowd level yesterday while Animal Kingdom and EPCOT sat at 3/10 and 5/10 respectively. That 30-point swing between parks on the same Tuesday tells the story of post-hol...
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A 52-minute median wait at Hollywood Studios. On a Monday. In January. That's not a typo—it's a 30% surge above the 30-day average and the highest crowd level possible on our scale. While the rest o...
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Hollywood Studios surged to a 10/10 crowd level yesterday—the only park in extreme territory—while Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, and Magic Kingdom all remained manageable. The 30% spike above Hollywood S...
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This week's crowds weren't just heavy—they were historic. The December 28 through January 3 stretch registered busier than 98% of all days measured in 2025, with Hollywood Studios and EPCOT both hit...
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A 10/10 crowd level at Hollywood Studios. That's the headline from Saturday, January 3rd, and it's as rough as it sounds. With a 56.5-minute median wait—41% above the 30-day average—guests faced t...
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Hollywood Studios recorded a 67-minute median wait yesterday—nearly 70% above its 30-day average. That 10/10 crowd level wasn't an outlier. Magic Kingdom hit 10/10. Animal Kingdom reached 9/10. Even...
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Yesterday delivered exactly what the calendar promised—and then some. New Year's Day pushed Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios to 9/10 crowd levels, with median waits 53% and 23% above their 30-day...
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EPCOT recorded its most extreme crowds of the holiday season yesterday, with median waits hitting 55 minutes—nearly triple the 30-day average. While guests packed World Showcase for the midnight cel...