Best Time to Ride Dumbo the Flying Elephant

Disneyland Park · Fantasyland · median posted waits from 7,252 logged readings

Shortest line

10 PM

~10 min

Longest line

10 AM

~30 min

Typical wait

23 min

across open hours

Dumbo the Flying Elephant wait times by hour

Median posted wait for each hour of the day, Pacific Time.

Sunday is typically the lightest day (~20 min); Monday is the heaviest (~25 min).

Ride at 10 PM — the median wait is 10 min versus 30 min at 10 AM, saving you roughly 20 minutes.
Avoid the 10 AM peak; posted waits stay elevated through the afternoon on most days.
Visiting on a Sunday cuts the typical wait to about 20 min, compared with 25 min on Monday.
Check the crowd forecast first — these are medians, and a heavy crowd day shifts every hour upward.

Based on our logged posted waits, 10 PM has the shortest median line at about 10 minutes. Sunday is typically the lightest day of the week (~20 min).

10 AM runs the longest, around 30 minutes on a typical day, and Monday is the busiest day of the week (~25 min).

The median posted wait across open park hours is roughly 23 minutes, measured from 7,252 logged wait-time readings over the last few months.