ParkPulse Busch Gardens Tampa
Phoenix Rising: Wait Times
Live queue time, the real wait you are likely to stand, and the quietest times to ride, from our own minute-by-minute tracking . Times are park time (ET).
Best time to ride: around 6am, typically 0 min posted
Busiest around 2pm at 25 min
Live now
2 seconds ago10
min posted, Walk on
Rising, up 5 in 30 min
Quietest later today: around 16:00, typically 18 min.
Forecast this ride for your park day
Pick any date up to ten months ahead: hour-by-hour expected waits for Phoenix Rising, from twelve years of crowd history. Free.
Typical posted wait
9 min
Highest we've seen
80 min
Days tracked
46
Best day to ride
Mon
Wait by time of day
Average posted wait per hour, all recorded days
Wait by day of week
Average posted wait per day, all recorded days
Wait by month
Estimated from six years of this park's daily crowd history, scaled to this ride. Tap a month for its day-by-day detail.
From this park's recorded crowds on each day, scaled to this ride's level. Weekends and holidays stand out.
The posted wait is not your real wait
Parks pad their posted times. We compared over 139,000 measured queue walks with the boards: rides like this one typically move at about 75% of the posted time. This is a modelled estimate, we do not yet have measured walk-through data for this ride. Queues move slowest mid-afternoon and fastest at opening and closing. None of this is a promise: on peak days some queues do run the full posted time.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average wait for Phoenix Rising?
The posted wait averages 9 minutes across every day we have tracked, with a recorded peak of 80 minutes.
When is the best time to ride Phoenix Rising?
Waits are typically shortest around 6am, and Mondays tend to be the quietest day of the week. Rope drop (arriving before park opening) beats both.
Where do these wait times come from?
Posted times come from the park's own wait boards via queue-times.com, polled every five minutes. The history charts blend our own recorded readings with queue-times.com's published yearly statistics.
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ParkPulse is a free tool from Theme Park Direct. Live data via queue-times.com. Posted waits change quickly, real-wait figures are typical estimates, not guarantees.