Best Time to Ride Pirates of the Caribbean

Disneyland Park · New Orleans Square · median posted waits from 3,899 logged readings

Shortest line

8 AM

~5 min

Longest line

12 PM

~30 min

Typical wait

19 min

across open hours

Pirates of the Caribbean wait times by hour

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

Sunday is typically the lightest day (~15 min); Monday is the heaviest (~20 min).

Ride at 8 AM — the median wait is 5 min versus 30 min at 12 PM, saving you roughly 25 minutes.
Avoid the 12 PM peak; posted waits stay elevated through the afternoon on most days.
Visiting on a Sunday cuts the typical wait to about 15 min, compared with 20 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, 8 AM has the shortest median line at about 5 minutes. Sunday is typically the lightest day of the week (~15 min).

12 PM runs the longest, around 30 minutes on a typical day, and Monday is the busiest day of the week (~20 min).

The median posted wait across open park hours is roughly 19 minutes, measured from 3,899 logged wait-time readings over the last few months.