ParkPulse Magic Kingdom
"it's a small world": 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 plus over a decade of measured wait history. Times are park time (ET).
Best time to ride: around 1am, typically 6 min posted
Busiest around 1pm at 31 min
Live now
52 seconds ago35
min posted, Moderate
Rising, up 15 in 30 min
Quietest later today: around 22:00, typically 5 min.
Forecast this ride for your park day
Pick any date up to ten months ahead: hour-by-hour expected waits for "it's a small world", from twelve years of crowd history. Free.
Typical posted wait
22 min
Highest we've seen
200 min
Measured real wait
14 min
Best day to ride
Sun
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
Average posted wait per month, useful for picking travel dates. 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.
Wait by year
Yearly average and typical daily peak, how demand for this ride has changed
The posted wait is not your real wait
Parks pad their posted times. We compared over 139,000 measured queue walks with the boards: for this ride the queue historically moves at about 67% of the posted time, measured across 2,346 recorded days. 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 "it's a small world"?
The posted wait averages 22 minutes across every day we have tracked, with a recorded peak of 200 minutes. The measured real wait averages 14 minutes, queues usually move faster than the boards suggest.
When is the best time to ride "it's a small world"?
Waits are typically shortest around 1am, and Sundays 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, and the real-wait figures come from physically measured queue walk-throughs collected between 2015 and 2021.
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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.