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Legoland California cheat sheet

worked out from 58 days of our own wait data27 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Coastersaurus, NEW! Galacticoaster and DUPLO® Little Dino Trail first. Leave LEGO® Technic Coaster until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 7 minutes. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 16 minutes and are lowest around 16:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
December
Busiest month
July

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0013m
  2. 11:0015m
  3. 12:0016mpeak
  4. 13:0014m
  5. 14:0013m
  6. 15:0013m
  7. 16:0012mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Coastersaurus ~29 min typical · up to 46 at peak · worst around 6pm29m
  2. 2NEW! Galacticoaster ~28 min typical · up to 35 at peak · worst around 5pm28m
  3. 3DUPLO® Little Dino Trail ~27 min typical · up to 48 at peak · worst around 6pm27m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1LEGO® Technic Coaster~18 min typical · about 7 min after 5pm7m
  2. 2LEGO® City: Deep Sea Adventure~16 min typical · about 5 min after 5pm5m
  3. 3Lost Kingdom Adventure~15 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m
  4. 4Dragon Coaster~14 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m
  5. 5Royal Joust~14 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesKid Power Tower5mBeetle Bounce5mDune Raiders6mLEGOLAND® Express6mBIONICLE® Blaster6mQueen Watevra’s Carousel7mDriving School7mJunior Driving School8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Pirate Reefrunning 11% of the park's open hours11%
  2. 2Captain Cranky's Challengerunning 27% of the park's open hours27%
  3. 3NEW! G-Force Test Facilityrunning 32% of the park's open hours32%
  4. 4Cargo Acerunning 63% of the park's open hours63%
  5. 5Coastersaurusrunning 81% of the park's open hours81%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.