Best Time to Ride Space Mountain

Disneyland Park · Tomorrowland · median posted waits from 6,851 logged readings

Shortest line

8 AM

~35 min

Longest line

2 PM

~60 min

Typical wait

52 min

across open hours

Space Mountain wait times by hour

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

Sunday is typically the lightest day (~45 min); Monday is the heaviest (~55 min).

Ride at 8 AM — the median wait is 35 min versus 60 min at 2 PM, saving you roughly 25 minutes.
Avoid the 2 PM peak; posted waits stay elevated through the afternoon on most days.
Visiting on a Sunday cuts the typical wait to about 45 min, compared with 55 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 35 minutes. Sunday is typically the lightest day of the week (~45 min).

2 PM runs the longest, around 60 minutes on a typical day, and Monday is the busiest day of the week (~55 min).

The median posted wait across open park hours is roughly 52 minutes, measured from 6,851 logged wait-time readings over the last few months.