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The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts 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 CineSational lagoon show, typically around 8:30 PM — ride headliners while the crowds watch it and waits drop 30–50%.
Worth it on busy days: Express Pass here costs nearly as much as a second ticket, and since Epic Universe opened, demand at the original parks has softened on non-peak dates.
See today's live waits free Ready-made touring plans16 rides open, 12 closed · average posted wait 16 min, 25 min below typical.
| Attraction | Posted wait |
|---|---|
| Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness 25 below typical | 50 min |
| Sinners 60 below typical | 30 min |
| Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control 15 below typical | 25 min |
| Revenge of the Mummy 20 below typical | 25 min |
| Stranger Things 5 20 below typical | 25 min |
| Cybergoria 35 below typical | 20 min |
| Evil Dead Burn 25 below typical | 20 min |
| Hellraiser 15 below typical | 15 min |
| MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals 25 below typical | 15 min |
| MEN IN BLACK™ Alien Attack! 5 below typical | 15 min |
| H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! 45 below typical | 5 min |
| INVASION: Alien Abduction 35 below typical | 5 min |
| Ollivanders™ Experience in Diagon Alley™ | 5 min |
| Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts™ Single Rider | 0 min |
| MEN IN BLACK™ Alien Attack!™ Single Rider | 0 min |
| Revenge of the Mummy™ Single Rider | 0 min |
Closed right now: Despicable Me Minion Mayhem™, E.T. Adventure, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts™, Hogwarts Express™ - King's Cross Station, Hogwarts™ Express - First Train, Hogwarts™ Express - Last Train, Illumination's Villain-Con Minion Blast, Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl, Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon, TRANSFORMERS™: The Ride-3D, The Simpsons Ride™, Trolls Trollercoaster.
Posted waits as of 1:52 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 AM – 5 PM Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 PM (separate ticket) |
| Sat 24 Oct | 9 AM – 5 PM Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 PM (separate ticket) |
| Sun 25 Oct | 9 AM – 5 PM Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 PM (separate ticket) |
| Mon 26 Oct | 10 AM – 7 PM |
| Tue 27 Oct | 10 AM – 7 PM |
| Wed 28 Oct | 9 AM – 5 PM Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 PM (separate ticket) |
| Thu 29 Oct | 9 AM – 5 PM Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 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 Universal Studios 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 | 40% of the day's peak |
| 10 AM | 65% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 88% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 95% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 90% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 85% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 75% of the day's peak |
| 6 PM | 62% of the day's peak |
| 7 PM | 48% of the day's peak |
| 8 PM | 35% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. Gringotts absorbs the entire opening crowd; the rest of the park stays reasonable if you clear it first.
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 the Christmas period.
The best value for short lines is January, February and September, Orlando's two reliable lulls.
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. Separate ticket, and the park clears day guests before the event opens.
Usually runs in August, September, October and November — check the park's calendar for this year's dates.
Visiting by day on an event night? Plan to finish by late afternoon, and check which nights are event nights.
Worth it on busy days
Express Pass here costs nearly as much as a second ticket, and since Epic Universe opened, demand at the original parks has softened on non-peak dates. Worth it on a summer Saturday; hard to justify on a September weekday.
Price: roughly $80–$300 per person/day · FREE with premier hotel stays. 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 Universal Studios crowd calendar scores every day for the next twelve months, 1 to 10 — no sign-up. Or see all the Universal Orlando parks side by side.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hogwarts™ Express - Last Train | September 25, 2026 | 29 operating days |
| Hogwarts™ Express - First Train | September 27, 2026 | 27 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 | Busylevel 4 | Packedlevel 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinners | 10–5020 typical | 55–9575 typical | 55–9575 typical | 60–10080 typical | 75–12095 typical |
| Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness | 15–5015 typical | 55–9075 typical | 55–7570 typical | 60–9075 typical | 65–9580 typical |
| Cybergoria | 5–255 typical | 35–6550 typical | 35–6550 typical | 40–7050 typical | 45–8065 typical |
| Hellraiser | 10–2510 typical | 10–5530 typical | 15–5535 typical | 15–6035 typical | 20–7040 typical |
| H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! | 5–355 typical | 40–6555 typical | 30–6050 typical | 45–6555 typical | 40–6560 typical |
| Hogwarts Express™ - King's Cross Station | 10–3510 typical | 10–4510 typical | 10–4515 typical | 10–6525 typical | 10–6535 typical |
| Evil Dead Burn | 5–205 typical | 30–5045 typical | 25–5040 typical | 30–5545 typical | 35–6045 typical |
| Stranger Things 5 | 5–305 typical | 15–4535 typical | 15–4535 typical | 20–5040 typical | 30–6045 typical |
| Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts™ | 10–3015 typical | 15–3020 typical | 20–4030 typical | 15–4025 typical | 25–6040 typical |
| Revenge of the Mummy™ | 15–3015 typical | 15–3525 typical | 20–4530 typical | 20–4535 typical | 30–5545 typical |
| INVASION: Alien Abduction | 5–205 typical | 25–5040 typical | 20–4540 typical | 30–5040 typical | 35–5045 typical |
| Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control | 15–3015 typical | 25–5035 typical | 20–4535 typical | 25–5040 typical | 30–5040 typical |
| MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals | 5–2010 typical | 30–5040 typical | 25–4540 typical | 30–5040 typical | 35–5045 typical |
| E.T. Adventure | 20–3525 typical | 20–3525 typical | 25–4535 typical | 25–4035 typical | 30–5040 typical |
| Despicable Me Minion Mayhem™ | 15–3525 typical | 15–3020 typical | 25–4535 typical | 20–4535 typical | 30–4540 typical |
| Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon™ | 15–3525 typical | 5–2515 typical | 15–3530 typical | 10–2515 typical | 15–3525 typical |
| TRANSFORMERS™ The Ride-3D | 5–2510 typical | 5–155 typical | 5–3010 typical | 5–2510 typical | 10–3520 typical |
| MEN IN BLACK™ Alien Attack! | 10–1515 typical | 10–1510 typical | 10–2515 typical | 10–2015 typical | 15–3520 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 21 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.
9 AM–10 AM and 8 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.
Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, then Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit and Revenge of the Mummy. Gringotts absorbs the entire opening crowd; the rest of the park stays reasonable if you clear it first.
January, February and September — January, February and September, Orlando's two reliable lulls. Avoid March, April, June, July and December, when spring break, summer and the Christmas period.
Express Pass here costs nearly as much as a second ticket, and since Epic Universe opened, demand at the original parks has softened on non-peak dates. Worth it on a summer Saturday; hard to justify on a September weekday.
Planning more than one day? These share the resort — and usually the crowd calendar.