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Heide Park · Europe · typical hours 10 AM–6 PM
The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride Colossos — Kampf der Giganten first. Waits peak from late morning to mid-afternoon — do shows and meals then. The final hour is often as quiet as rope drop. There is no headline evening show, so the final operating hour is usually the quietest time to ride.
Worth it on busy days: Express Pass is worth it on summer Saturdays and Halloween weekends; on an ordinary weekday the park's short season keeps crowds moderate and rope-drop order does the job for free.
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| Day | Park hours (local time) |
|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct | 10 AM – 5 PM |
| Sat 24 Oct | 12 PM – 9 PM |
| Sun 25 Oct | 10 AM – 6 PM |
| Mon 26 Oct | 10 AM – 5 PM |
| Tue 27 Oct | 10 AM – 5 PM |
| Wed 28 Oct | 10 AM – 5 PM |
| Thu 29 Oct | 10 AM – 5 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 12 PM–2 PM — that is the window to spend on shows, meals or indoor attractions rather than headliners.
Typical shape of a Heide Park 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 | 40% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 75% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 97% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 99% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 87% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 64% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 40% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 28% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. Colossos and Flug der Dämonen are the two headliners everyone walks to first; both load slowly relative to their fame.
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 the north-German summer holidays and the Halloween season.
The best value for short lines is spring and September weekdays, when the park often feels half-empty.
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
Express Pass is worth it on summer Saturdays and Halloween weekends; on an ordinary weekday the park's short season keeps crowds moderate and rope-drop order does the job for free.
Price: roughly €25–€60 per person/day · tiers by season. 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 Heide Park 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.
We detect long closures automatically from the live feed — a ride reporting closed all day, for three operating days running, is down for something structural. This park's archive is still filling; the list appears here as soon as there is enough history to be sure.
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 | Mildlevel 2 | Moderatelevel 3 | Busylevel 4 | Packedlevel 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLOSSOS - KAMPF DER GIGANTEN | 5–2010 typical | 5–1510 typical | 5–2015 typical | 10–2015 typical | 25–5040 typical |
| KRAKE | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–155 typical | 15–4030 typical |
| BOBBAHN | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–1510 typical | 10–2015 typical | 15–4025 typical |
| FLUG DER DÄMONEN | 5–105 typical | 5–1010 typical | 5–1510 typical | 5–2010 typical | 15–4030 typical |
| BIG LOOP | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–1510 typical | 10–3020 typical |
| DÄMONEN GRUFT | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–3015 typical |
| GHOSTBUSTERS 5D | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–2515 typical |
| GROTTENBLITZ | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–2515 typical |
| SCREAM | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–2510 typical |
| TOXIC GARDEN | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–2515 typical |
| DESERT RACE | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical | 5–1510 typical | 10–2520 typical |
| WILDWASSERBAHN | 0–50 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–155 typical | 5–2015 typical |
| HEIDE PARK EXPRESS | 0–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical | 5–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical |
| INDY-BLITZ | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 10–1510 typical |
| MONORAIL | 15–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical | 15–1515 typical |
| RAFFNUSS & TAFFNUSS WASSERFLIEGER | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–1510 typical |
| BOUNTY | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–105 typical |
| FLOßFAHRT | 0–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–1010 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 20 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.
5 PM–6 PM — the opening hour and the final hour of the operating day. Waits peak 12 PM–2 PM, so plan meals, shows and indoor attractions for that window.
Colossos — Kampf der Giganten, then Flug der Dämonen and Krake. Colossos and Flug der Dämonen are the two headliners everyone walks to first; both load slowly relative to their fame.
April, May and September — spring and September weekdays, when the park often feels half-empty. Avoid July, August and October, when the north-German summer holidays and the Halloween season.
Express Pass is worth it on summer Saturdays and Halloween weekends; on an ordinary weekday the park's short season keeps crowds moderate and rope-drop order does the job for free.