Every day scored 1 to 10 for the next 365 days. Free, no sign-up, no email.
Quietest days coming up: Thu 7 Jan (2/10) · Thu 14 Jan (2/10) · Thu 21 Jan (2/10)
Busiest: Sat 26 Dec (10/10) — Christmas holidays. On days when one Disneyland (California) park is clearly lighter than the rest, it is named in the square.
June, July, August, October and December — summer, Halloween Time weekends and the Christmas season, when annual passholders and tourists overlap.
Quietest months
January, February, May and September — January and February after New Year, early May, and mid-September weekdays.
Local knowledge: Disneyland's crowd swings on the local passholder calendar as much as the tourist one; blockout dates matter more than school holidays here.
When to avoid Disneyland Park, and when to go
Busiest stretches, next 12 months
Wed Nov 25 – Sun Nov 29Thanksgiving · about 9/10, 10 at worst
Sun Dec 20 – Sun Jan 3Christmas holidays · about 9/10, 10 at worst
Sun Mar 21 – Mon Mar 29Easter week · about 8/10, 10 at worst
Sun Jul 4July 4th · about 8/10
Sat Oct 9 – Mon Oct 11Columbus Day · about 8/10, 9 at worst
Quietest weeks
Mon Jan 4 – Sun Jan 10about 4/10 · no holidays or school breaks
Mon Jan 25 – Sun Jan 31about 4/10 · no holidays or school breaks
Mon Feb 1 – Sun Feb 7about 4/10 · no holidays or school breaks
Mon May 3 – Sun May 9about 4/10 · no holidays or school breaks
Mon Sep 13 – Sun Sep 19about 4/10 · no holidays or school breaks
Scores are the crowd forecast, 1 to 10, averaged over the stretch. Visiting in a busy stretch anyway? Be at the gate before opening, and ride the big ones in the first hour and the last.
How this is worked out
Each day starts from how that weekday normally runs at Disneyland, learned from our own recorded wait snapshots as they accumulate, and is raised for public holidays and school-holiday periods. It is a forecast of relative busyness, not a promise: a 3 means a day that usually runs quiet for this park, not a guarantee of short lines. The further out a date sits, the more it leans on the weekday pattern alone.
Want the live picture instead? Disneyland wait times has today's queues, the hour-by-hour curve and what counts as a normal wait here. Planning a specific day? Open the planner and it will build a route around these crowd levels.