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Universal Hollywood · California · typical hours 9 AM–10 PM
The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge 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: This is a compact park most people finish in a day or less, and Express costs close to a second admission.
See today's live waits free Ready-made touring plans12 rides open, 13 closed · average posted wait 48 min, 8 min above typical.
| Attraction | Posted wait |
|---|---|
| Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness 25 above typical | 75 min |
| Stranger Things 5 20 above typical | 75 min |
| Sinners | 70 min |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space 5 above typical | 65 min |
| Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride 30 above typical | 60 min |
| Hellraiser 5 above typical | 50 min |
| Dead Deader Deadest | 35 min |
| The Simpsons Ride™ 5 above typical | 35 min |
| Killceañera: Music by SLASH 5 below typical | 30 min |
| TRANSFORMERS™: The Ride-3D 5 above typical | 30 min |
| Evil Dead Burn | 25 min |
| Flight of the Hippogriff™ | 20 min |
Closed right now: Bowser Jr. Challenge, Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, DinoPlay, Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™, Jurassic World - The Ride, Kung Fu Panda Adventure, Mario Kart™: Bowser’s Challenge, Ollivanders™, Silly Swirly, Studio Tour, Terror Tram starring Art the Clown, The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash.
Posted waits as of 11:51 PM 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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Queues here follow a predictable daily shape. Lines are shortest in the first hour and the last, and peak 12 PM–3 PM — that is the window to spend on shows, meals or indoor attractions rather than headliners.
Typical shape of a Universal Hollywood 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 | 63% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 84% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 97% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 97% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 93% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 88% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 82% of the day's peak |
| 6 PM | 72% of the day's peak |
| 7 PM | 60% of the day's peak |
| 8 PM | 47% of the day's peak |
| 9 PM | 35% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. Super Nintendo World fills first, and the Studio Tour's line grows steadily all morning and never really shrinks.
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 summer, Halloween Horror Nights season and the winter holidays.
The best value for short lines is January, February, May weekdays and 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, separate ticket, day guests out beforehand.
Usually runs in 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
This is a compact park most people finish in a day or less, and Express costs close to a second admission. On a quiet weekday you will not need it; on a summer Saturday or during Horror Nights it is the difference between four rides and ten.
Price: roughly $90–$250 per person/day. 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 Hollywood 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DinoPlay | August 27, 2026 | 58 operating days |
| Attraction | Was closed from | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift | August 27, 2026 | 20 operating days |
| Bowser Jr. Challenge | September 1, 2026 | 7 operating days |
| Evil Dead Burn - Express | September 6, 2026 | 6 operating days |
| Hellraiser - Express | September 6, 2026 | 6 operating days |
| Kill-Ceanera - Express | September 6, 2026 | 6 operating days |
| Killer Klowns - Express | September 6, 2026 | 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift | 45–9060 typical | 60–9065 typical | 60–10080 typical | 90–120110 typical | 90–130110 typical |
| Sinners | — | — | 40–7060 typical | 50–8070 typical | 60–9075 typical |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | — | — | 40–6550 typical | 40–7055 typical | 40–7560 typical |
| Stranger Things 5 | — | — | 35–6045 typical | 40–6560 typical | 40–7060 typical |
| Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness | — | — | 40–5550 typical | 45–6555 typical | 40–6555 typical |
| Hellraiser | — | — | 25–5040 typical | 25–5545 typical | 25–6045 typical |
| Mario Kart™: Bowser’s Challenge | 15–4025 typical | 15–4525 typical | 15–4525 typical | 15–4525 typical | 20–5530 typical |
| Terror Tram starring Art the Clown | — | — | 15–3525 typical | 25–5040 typical | 20–5040 typical |
| Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride | 5–2010 typical | 5–2515 typical | 15–3525 typical | 15–4525 typical | 20–4535 typical |
| Dead Deader Deadest | — | — | 20–3530 typical | 25–4030 typical | 25–4535 typical |
| Killceañera: Music by SLASH | — | — | 20–4535 typical | 30–4540 typical | 30–4540 typical |
| The Simpsons Ride™ | 20–3525 typical | 25–4030 typical | 20–3530 typical | 25–4030 typical | 25–4030 typical |
| Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™ | 5–155 typical | 5–2010 typical | 5–3015 typical | 10–3520 typical | 10–4025 typical |
| Evil Dead Burn | — | — | 10–3525 typical | 15–3530 typical | 15–4030 typical |
| Jurassic World - The Ride | 5–2010 typical | 5–2010 typical | 5–3525 typical | 5–2510 typical | 10–3025 typical |
| TRANSFORMERS™: The Ride-3D | 5–3015 typical | 10–2520 typical | 10–3015 typical | 15–3025 typical | 15–3525 typical |
| Flight of the Hippogriff™ | 5–155 typical | 5–2010 typical | 5–2015 typical | 5–2515 typical | 10–3020 typical |
| The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash | 5–2515 typical | 10–2520 typical | 10–2515 typical | 10–2520 typical | 10–3020 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 24 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 9 PM–10 PM — the opening hour and the final hour of the operating day. Waits peak 12 PM–3 PM, so plan meals, shows and indoor attractions for that window.
Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge, then Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and Jurassic World: The Ride. Super Nintendo World fills first, and the Studio Tour's line grows steadily all morning and never really shrinks.
January, February, May and September — January, February, May weekdays and September. Avoid June, July, August, October and December, when summer, Halloween Horror Nights season and the winter holidays.
This is a compact park most people finish in a day or less, and Express costs close to a second admission. On a quiet weekday you will not need it; on a summer Saturday or during Horror Nights it is the difference between four rides and ten.