ParkPulse Magic Kingdom
Pirates of the Caribbean: 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 10pm, typically 11 min posted
Busiest around 12pm at 40 min
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Quietest later today: around 08:00, typically 5 min.
Forecast this ride for your park day
Pick any date up to ten months ahead: hour-by-hour expected waits for Pirates of the Caribbean, from twelve years of crowd history. Free.
Typical posted wait
28 min
Highest we've seen
185 min
Measured real wait
19 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 | 12 min |
| 10am | 27 min |
| 11am | 38 min |
| 12pm | 40 min |
| 1pm | 40 min |
| 2pm | 38 min |
| 3pm | 35 min |
| 4pm | 37 min |
| 5pm | 34 min |
| 6pm | 29 min |
| 7pm | 24 min |
| 8pm | 18 min |
| 9pm | 12 min |
| 10pm | 11 min |
Wait by day of week
Average posted wait per day, all recorded days
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| Day | Average posted wait |
|---|---|
| Sun | 26 min |
| Mon | 31 min |
| Tue | 28 min |
| Wed | 29 min |
| Thu | 26 min |
| Fri | 27 min |
| Sat | 31 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 | 30 min |
| Feb | 33 min |
| Mar | 35 min |
| Apr | 27 min |
| May | 27 min |
| Jun | 29 min |
| Jul | 27 min |
| Aug | 22 min |
| Sep | 19 min |
| Oct | 26 min |
| Nov | 29 min |
| Dec | 31 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 | 18 min | 34 min |
| 2025 | 16 min | 33 min |
| 2024 | 19 min | 39 min |
| 2023 | 26 min | 47 min |
| 2022 | 29 min | 53 min |
| 2021 | 33 min | 57 min |
| 2020 | 36 min | 63 min |
| 2019 | 30 min | 61 min |
| 2018 | 30 min | 62 min |
| 2017 | 32 min | 65 min |
| 2016 | 23 min | 52 min |
| 2015 | 23 min | 54 min |
| 2014 | 21 min | 47 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 66% of the posted time, measured across 2,295 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 Pirates of the Caribbean?
The posted wait averages 28 minutes across every day we have tracked, with a recorded peak of 185 minutes. The measured real wait averages 19 minutes, queues usually move faster than the boards suggest.
When is the best time to ride Pirates of the Caribbean?
Waits are typically shortest around 10pm, 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.
