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SeaWorld Orlando · Florida · typical hours 9 AM–9 PM
The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride Penguin Trek 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.
Usually not worth it: SeaWorld is a show park with coasters attached, not the other way round.
See today's live waits free Ready-made touring plans6 rides open, 16 closed · average posted wait 0 min.
| Attraction | Posted wait |
|---|---|
| Infinity Falls® | 0 min |
| Journey to Atlantis | 0 min |
| Kraken® | 0 min |
| Mako® | 0 min |
| Manta | 0 min |
| Penguin Trek 10 below typical | 0 min |
Closed right now: ALL NEW! - Expedition Odyssey Fire & Ice, ALL NEW! I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch, Abby's Flower Tower, All-New! Everything Must Stay, All-New! The Crawl Space, All-New! The Dark Net, Cookie Drop, Elmo's Choo Choo Train, Flamingo Paddle Boats, Ice Breaker, Pipeline: The Surf Coaster, RETURNING! The Rave Yard, Sky Tower, Slimey's Slider, Sunny Day Carousel, Super Grover's Box Car Derby.
Posted waits as of 2:00 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 | 10 AM – 7 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Sat 24 Oct | 9 AM – 7 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Sun 25 Oct | 9:30 AM – 7 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Mon 26 Oct | 10 AM – 6 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Tue 27 Oct | 10 AM – 6 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Wed 28 Oct | 10 AM – 6 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
| Thu 29 Oct | 10 AM – 6 PM a separately ticketed event from 7 PM (separate ticket) |
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 SeaWorld Orlando 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 |
|---|---|
| 9 AM | 35% of the day's peak |
| 10 AM | 60% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 85% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 98% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 88% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 72% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 55% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 42% of the day's peak |
| 6 PM | 32% of the day's peak |
| 7 PM | 25% of the day's peak |
| 8 PM | 22% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. The two newest coasters take the opening crowd; Mako and Manta have strong capacity and stay reasonable.
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 spring break, summer and Howl-O-Scream season.
The best value for short lines is January, February, May weekdays and early September.
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. Every day is scored on the crowd calendar.
Separate evening ticket
Selected nights with a separate ticket, not included with daytime admission.
This year: 11 September to 31 October, on selected nights.
Visiting by day on an event night? Plan to finish by late afternoon, and check which nights are event nights.
Usually not worth it
SeaWorld is a show park with coasters attached, not the other way round. Waits are modest outside summer Saturdays, and Quick Queue solves a problem most visitors do not have.
Price: roughly $20–$90 one-time or Unlimited variants. 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 SeaWorld Orlando 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.
Nothing is down long-term right now. Every attraction we track at SeaWorld Orlando has reported open at some point in the last few days. Observed through October 23, 2026.
| Attraction | Was closed from | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Super Grover's Box Car Derby | October 19, 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 | Mildlevel 2 | Moderatelevel 3 | Packedlevel 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-New! The Dark Net | — | 15–4530 typical | — | 15–9050 typical |
| Penguin Trek | 0–55 typical | 0–200 typical | 5–2510 typical | 10–6040 typical |
| All-New! Everything Must Stay | — | 20–3530 typical | — | 20–5030 typical |
| ALL NEW! - Expedition Odyssey Fire & Ice | 0–1510 typical | 0–2015 typical | 10–3020 typical | 15–4530 typical |
| ALL NEW! I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch | — | 10–2010 typical | — | 15–4525 typical |
| All-New! The Crawl Space | — | 5–155 typical | — | 5–3525 typical |
| Ice Breaker | 0–50 typical | 0–105 typical | 0–50 typical | 0–3020 typical |
| Pipeline: The Surf Coaster | 5–55 typical | 5–55 typical | 5–1510 typical | 5–3015 typical |
| RETURNING! The Rave Yard | 5–2010 typical | 5–3010 typical | — | 5–3015 typical |
| Manta | 0–50 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–100 typical | 0–255 typical |
| Journey to Atlantis | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–50 typical | 0–200 typical |
| Infinity Falls® | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–100 typical |
| Kraken® | 0–50 typical | 0–00 typical | 0–50 typical | 0–55 typical |
| Mako® | 0–50 typical | 0–00 typical | — | 0–50 typical |
| Cookie Drop | 0–50 typical | 0–55 typical | — | 0–00 typical |
| Flamingo Paddle Boats | 0–00 typical | — | — | 0–50 typical |
| Super Grover's Box Car Derby | — | — | 0–50 typical | 0–00 typical |
| Elmo's Choo Choo Train | 0–50 typical | — | — | 0–00 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 9 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 9 AM. The first hour consistently has the day's shortest waits, and arriving even 45 minutes late typically costs you two headliners.
7 PM–9 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.
Penguin Trek, then Pipeline: The Surf Coaster and Mako. The two newest coasters take the opening crowd; Mako and Manta have strong capacity and stay reasonable.
January, February, May and September — January, February, May weekdays and early September. Avoid March, June, July, September and October, when spring break, summer and Howl-O-Scream season.
SeaWorld is a show park with coasters attached, not the other way round. Waits are modest outside summer Saturdays, and Quick Queue solves a problem most visitors do not have.