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Seaworld San Antonio cheat sheet

worked out from 31 days of our own wait data14 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch, Witch of the Woods and The Swamp at Blackwater Bayou first. Leave Rio Loco until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 19:00 at 9 minutes and are lowest around 11:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
October
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. 11:006mquietest
  2. 12:006m
  3. 13:006m
  4. 14:006m
  5. 15:007m
  6. 16:007m
  7. 17:008m
  8. 18:008m
  9. 19:009mpeak
  10. 20:009m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 19:00 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. 1I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch ~45 min typical45m
  2. 2Witch of the Woods ~29 min typical29m
  3. 3The Swamp at Blackwater Bayou ~26 min typical · up to 42 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour26m

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. 1Rio Loco~15 min typical · about 5 min after 5pm5m

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 minutesTexas Stingray5mSteel Eel5mSea Swinger5mWave Breaker6mRiptide Rescue6mGreat White6mJourney to Atlantis7mTidal Surge9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Witch of the Woodsrunning 11% of the park's open hours11%
  2. 2The Swamp at Blackwater Bayourunning 12% of the park's open hours12%
  3. 3Dead Wreckoningrunning 12% of the park's open hours12%
  4. 4I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catchrunning 14% of the park's open hours14%
  5. 5Dis-Assembly Linerunning 15% of the park's open hours15%

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.