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Futuroscope · Europe · typical hours 10 AM–10 PM
The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride Chasseurs de Tornades first. Waits peak from late morning to mid-afternoon — do shows and meals then. The final hour is often as quiet as rope drop. The headline evening show is La Clé des Songes night show, typically around 9 PM — ride headliners while the crowds watch it and waits drop 30–50%.
Worth it on busy days: Futuroscope is shows and simulators, not coasters, so the queues behave differently: they are batch-loaded and predictable.
See today's live waits free Ready-made touring plans5 rides open, 51 closed · average posted wait 0 min.
| Attraction | Posted wait |
|---|---|
| Cosmic Collisions | 0 min |
| Etincelle | 0 min |
| KinéMAX | 0 min |
| T. Rex | 0 min |
| ZerOGravity | 0 min |
Closed right now: Aces in the Sky, Alien, Arthur, the 4D adventure, Budding Drivers, Dances with Robots, Destination Mars, Dynamic Vienne, Dynamic!, Flash, Fledgling Firefighters, Fun Boats, Futuropolis, Hydro Dynamo, Journey into the Dark, Kiné’eau, Kraki's Tentacles, Lumberjacks river, Matrix, Mission Bermudes, Pulse ! The Electric Odyssey, Quick, Reflex, Rescue Academy, Rocket, Spiral, Splash Adventure, Sprint, The Aquadynamic, The Aquatic Garden, The Ascenso-rocket, The Big Bath, The Centrifuge, The Cove, The Eauculus, The Extraordinary Journey, The Gravity Tower, The Greenhouse of Worlds, The Gyrotour, The Little Bath, The Pendulum, The River, The Silver pool, The Time Machine, The Water Maze, The Wave, The Wings of Da Vinci, The musical cave, Tornado Chasers, Turbo Splash, Upside Down House, Vélodrôle.
Posted waits as of 7:53 AM park time, refreshed every few minutes. Posted waits are the park’s own figures via Queue-Times.com. Plan around them in the app →
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| Day | Park hours (local time) |
|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Sat 24 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Sun 25 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Mon 26 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Tue 27 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Wed 28 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
| Thu 29 Oct | 9:45 AM – 10 PM |
From the park’s published schedule. Hours change, and evening events can close the park to day guests early — check with the park before you go.
Queues here follow a predictable daily shape. Lines are shortest in the first hour and the last, and peak 1 PM–3 PM — that is the window to spend on shows, meals or indoor attractions rather than headliners.
Typical shape of a Futuroscope day, shown as each hour's share of that day's own peak wait. Actual minutes vary by season and day of week — check today's live waits.
| Hour | Typical wait level |
|---|---|
| 10 AM | 35% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 60% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 85% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 98% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 88% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 72% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 55% of the day's peak |
| 6 PM | 42% of the day's peak |
| 7 PM | 32% of the day's peak |
| 8 PM | 25% of the day's peak |
| 9 PM | 22% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. Tornado Chasers and Objectif Mars are the two modern headliners with the smallest hourly throughput — both are show-format rides that admit groups in batches.
The first hour is the cheapest capacity of the day — no pass, no fee, and typically the shortest waits you will see.
Red = busiest, green = quietest, grey = moderate.
Expect the year's longest waits during French school holidays — Easter, the summer, and the Toussaint break.
The best value for short lines is term-time weekdays, when most experiences are near walk-on.
Scores are the crowd forecast, 1 to 10, averaged over the stretch. *School holidays vary by district, state or zone; these are the typical dates, so check your own. Visiting in a busy stretch anyway? Be at the gate before opening, and ride the big ones in the first hour and the last. Every day is scored on the crowd calendar.
Worth it on busy days
Futuroscope is shows and simulators, not coasters, so the queues behave differently: they are batch-loaded and predictable. The Premium pass is only worth it on French school-holiday dates; otherwise timing beats paying.
Price: roughly €15–€29 per person/day · priority lanes on the headliners. Prices change often and by date — treat this as a range, not a quote.
Maben Parks shows every wait live with a "vs typical" marker, and your magical fairy will run the numbers for your party and date — including telling you to keep your money when the answer is no.
Check today's waits before you buyPlanning ahead? The free Futuroscope crowd calendar scores every day for the next twelve months, 1 to 10 — no sign-up.
Median posted wait across the rides we track, on moderate days — the crowd level most visitors get. The shaded band is the middle half of readings at that hour.
Detected automatically from the live feed — each of these reported closed all day, every day, for at least three operating days. Observed through October 23, 2026.
| Attraction | Closed since | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Fun Boats | August 27, 2026 | 58 operating days |
| The Gyrotour | October 12, 2026 | 12 operating days |
| Turbo Splash | October 17, 2026 | 7 operating days |
| Attraction | Was closed from | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmic Collisions | October 12, 2026 | 3 operating days |
| Etincelle | October 12, 2026 | 3 operating days |
| KinéMAX | October 12, 2026 | 3 operating days |
| T. Rex | October 12, 2026 | 3 operating days |
Generated from wait-feed observations, not an operator announcement: a long closure usually means refurbishment, but we report what the feed shows rather than guessing why. Always check the operator's own page before travelling for one specific ride.
Every wait we have recorded here, grouped by how busy the day turned out to be. The bold figure is the middle half of what we saw — a quarter of the time it was shorter, a quarter of the time longer. Read it against today’s crowd level to know whether the number on the sign is good or bad.
| Ride | Lightlevel 1 | Moderatelevel 3 | Busylevel 4 | Packedlevel 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Extraordinary Journey | 0–80 typical | 0–126 typical | 0–126 typical | 7–3117 typical |
| Arthur, the 4D adventure | 0–80 typical | 5–199 typical | 0–2212 typical | 8–3118 typical |
| Destination Mars | 0–60 typical | 0–128 typical | 0–137 typical | 12–3021 typical |
| Upside Down House | 0–90 typical | 0–149 typical | 0–1414 typical | 7–2919 typical |
| Tornado Chasers | 0–120 typical | 0–148 typical | 0–138 typical | 7–2514 typical |
| Dances with Robots | 0–50 typical | 0–105 typical | 0–118 typical | 9–2516 typical |
| Mission Bermudes | 0–00 typical | 0–80 typical | 0–90 typical | 0–2415 typical |
| The Time Machine | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–197 typical |
| Rescue Academy | 0–00 typical | 0–115 typical | 0–90 typical | 0–199 typical |
| Dynamic! | 0–90 typical | 0–128 typical | 0–117 typical | 0–148 typical |
| Splash Adventure | 0–00 typical | 0–80 typical | 0–60 typical | 0–149 typical |
| Hydro Dynamo | 0–00 typical | 0–50 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–136 typical |
| Dynamic Vienne | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–130 typical |
| Budding Drivers | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–90 typical |
| The Gyrotour | 0–50 typical | 0–54 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–50 typical |
| ZerOGravity | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical |
| Cosmic Collisions | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical |
| KinéMAX | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 28 days per figure. Cells stay blank until a ride has enough observations at that crowd level to be worth printing. Posted waits are what the park displays, which is not always what you queue.
Aim to be at the gate 30–45 minutes before the posted opening time of 10 AM. The first hour consistently has the day's shortest waits, and arriving even 45 minutes late typically costs you two headliners.
8 PM–10 PM — the opening hour and the final hour of the operating day. Waits peak 1 PM–3 PM, so plan meals, shows and indoor attractions for that window.
Chasseurs de Tornades, then Objectif Mars and L'Extraordinaire Voyage. Tornado Chasers and Objectif Mars are the two modern headliners with the smallest hourly throughput — both are show-format rides that admit groups in batches.
March, June, September and November — term-time weekdays, when most experiences are near walk-on. Avoid April, July, August and October, when French school holidays — Easter, the summer, and the Toussaint break.
Futuroscope is shows and simulators, not coasters, so the queues behave differently: they are batch-loaded and predictable. The Premium pass is only worth it on French school-holiday dates; otherwise timing beats paying.