ParkPulse Magic Kingdom
Mad Tea Party: 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 9am, typically 6 min posted
Busiest around 12pm at 17 min
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Quietest later today: around 18:00, typically 5 min.
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Typical posted wait
12 min
Highest we've seen
90 min
Measured real wait
8 min
Best day to ride
Sun
Wait by time of day
Average posted wait per hour, all recorded days
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| Hour | Average posted wait |
|---|---|
| 9am | 6 min |
| 10am | 9 min |
| 11am | 15 min |
| 12pm | 17 min |
| 1pm | 17 min |
| 2pm | 17 min |
| 3pm | 15 min |
| 4pm | 16 min |
| 5pm | 15 min |
| 6pm | 14 min |
| 7pm | 11 min |
| 8pm | 9 min |
| 9pm | 7 min |
| 10pm | 6 min |
Wait by day of week
Average posted wait per day, all recorded days
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| Day | Average posted wait |
|---|---|
| Sun | 11 min |
| Mon | 13 min |
| Tue | 12 min |
| Wed | 12 min |
| Thu | 11 min |
| Fri | 11 min |
| Sat | 14 min |
Wait by month
Average posted wait per month, useful for picking travel dates. Tap a month for its day-by-day detail.
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| Month | Average posted wait |
|---|---|
| Jan | 12 min |
| Feb | 14 min |
| Mar | 15 min |
| Apr | 13 min |
| May | 11 min |
| Jun | 12 min |
| Jul | 12 min |
| Aug | 10 min |
| Sep | 8 min |
| Oct | 11 min |
| Nov | 13 min |
| Dec | 14 min |
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
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| Year | Average wait | Typical peak |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 min | 14 min |
| 2025 | 8 min | 13 min |
| 2024 | 8 min | 12 min |
| 2023 | 8 min | 14 min |
| 2022 | 9 min | 15 min |
| 2021 | 12 min | 23 min |
| 2020 | 12 min | 23 min |
| 2019 | 13 min | 28 min |
| 2018 | 13 min | 37 min |
| 2017 | 13 min | 28 min |
| 2016 | 12 min | 27 min |
| 2015 | 10 min | 24 min |
| 2014 | 5 min | 13 min |
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 68% of the posted time, measured across 2,364 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 Mad Tea Party?
The posted wait averages 12 minutes across every day we have tracked, with a recorded peak of 90 minutes. The measured real wait averages 8 minutes, queues usually move faster than the boards suggest.
When is the best time to ride Mad Tea Party?
Waits are typically shortest around 9am, 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.