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Seaworld San Antonio
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Six Flags Great Adventure

On a typical day Seaworld San Antonio queues less: about 15 minutes a ride against 34 at Six Flags Great Adventure, a difference of roughly 19 minutes on every queue you join.

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01 · On a typical day

What you would normally queue.

Averages across recent weeks, so one broken ride or one wet Tuesday cannot decide it. This is the comparison to plan a trip on; the live figures below are the one to act on today.

Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great Adventure compared on their typical recorded queue times
TypicallySeaworld San AntonioUnited StatesSix Flags Great AdventureUnited States
Average wait per ride 15 min (best of the two)34 min
Rides with recorded waits 1420 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch45 minSUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight56 min
Shortest typical queue Texas Stingray5 minGiant Wheel18 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running57%72% (best of the two)

Averaged across every ride at each park with recorded waits. A ride that never opened is left out, so a park is not flattered by counting a shut ride as a queue of zero.

02 · Right now

Both parks, this minute.

Live queue times at both parks. These fill in as soon as the page loads, and keep updating while you are here.

Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great Adventure compared on live queue times
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These keep refreshing while this page is open. A closed park posts no waits, so its rows read as dashes rather than zeroes.

Verdict, on a typical day On a typical day Seaworld San Antonio queues less: about 15 minutes a ride against 34 at Six Flags Great Adventure, a difference of roughly 19 minutes on every queue you join.

03 · Choosing

Which one is your day out.

Every line here is earned by one of the figures above - nothing is a generic sentence with a park name dropped into it.

Pick Seaworld San Antonio if…

  • You want shorter queues: Seaworld San Antonio averages 15 minutes a ride against 34 at Six Flags Great Adventure
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch is on your list - it is Seaworld San Antonio's longest typical queue at about 45 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Seaworld San Antonio's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Great Adventure if…

  • You will accept a longer queue - 34 minutes a ride here against 15 at Seaworld San Antonio - for what Six Flags Great Adventure has that Seaworld San Antonio does not
  • You want more to do: 20 rides here have recorded wait data against 14 at Seaworld San Antonio
  • You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Great Adventure's rides run 72% of opening hours against 57% at Seaworld San Antonio
  • SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight is on your list - it is Six Flags Great Adventure's longest typical queue at about 56 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Six Flags Great Adventure's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Seaworld San Antonio

SeaWorld San Antonio is the largest marine-life theme park in the world by area, sitting on 250 acres in San Antonio, Texas. It combines marine animal shows with a solid coaster line-up: Wave Breaker (a jet-ski themed coaster), Great White (an inverted coaster), Steel Eel (a hyper coaster), Texas Stingray wooden coaster, and the newer Tidal Surge swing ride. A separate Aquatica water park operates next door.

Texas heat drives summer crowds into early mornings and late evenings, with the coolest queue times usually at the start of the day. Halloween Spooktacular, Christmas Celebration and US school holidays are the peak periods. Check live wait times for Texas Stingray and Wave Breaker on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek day for shorter queues.

Seaworld San Antonio live queue times

Six Flags Great Adventure

Six Flags Great Adventure sits in Jackson, New Jersey, and has long been one of Six Flags' flagship coaster parks. The line-up is exceptional: El Toro (one of the world's top-rated wooden coasters), Nitro, Jersey Devil Coaster, Superman: Ultimate Flight, Batman: The Ride, Skull Mountain, and Green Lantern stand-up. Kingda Ka was the park's signature ride until its closure; a Safari Off Road Adventure drive-through exhibit also operates on the property.

NJ and NYC school holidays, Fright Fest and US summer weekends drive huge crowds. Weekdays in May, September and October are dramatically calmer. Check live queue times for El Toro and Nitro on arrival - they build up fast - and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek visit for shorter waits across the whole coaster line-up.

Six Flags Great Adventure live queue times

05 · Questions

Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great Adventure?

Which is better, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great Adventure?

If you are judging on queues, Seaworld San Antonio: it averages about 15 minutes a ride on a typical day against 34 at Six Flags Great Adventure, roughly 19 minutes back on every queue you join. Seaworld San Antonio has 14 rides with recorded waits against 20 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Six Flags Great Adventure also runs its rides more reliably - 72% of opening hours against 57%.

Which has shorter queues, Seaworld San Antonio or Six Flags Great Adventure?

Seaworld San Antonio, by about 19 minutes a ride. On a typical day Seaworld San Antonio averages 15 minutes against 34 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Seaworld San Antonio best time to visit and Six Flags Great Adventure best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great Adventure in the same trip?

Yes - both parks are in United States, so a two-park trip is realistic over a long weekend. Split the days so you start at whichever opens earliest and drive to the other in the evening.

How many rides does each park have?

See the tables above for ride counts - or jump to Seaworld San Antonio and Six Flags Great Adventure for the full ride lists.

Is Seaworld San Antonio bigger than Six Flags Great Adventure?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Great Adventure is the bigger day out: 20 rides against 14. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Seaworld San Antonio is the quicker park.

Then pick
the quiet day.

Both parks have a crowd calendar with six weeks of forecast and the best day left to go.

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