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Six Flags Fiesta Texas cheat sheet

worked out from 25 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Road Runner Express, WONDER WOMAN™ Golden Lasso Coaster and JOKER™: Carnival of Chaos first. Leave Poltergeist until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 20:00 at 25 minutes and are lowest around 17:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Friday
Quietest month
August
Busiest month
March

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. 12:0021m
  2. 13:0020m
  3. 14:0022m
  4. 15:0022m
  5. 16:0020m
  6. 17:0018mquietest
  7. 18:0020m
  8. 19:0021m
  9. 20:0025mpeak
  10. 21:0025m

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 20:00 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. 1Road Runner Express ~38 min typical · up to 49 at peak · worst around 10pm38m
  2. 2WONDER WOMAN™ Golden Lasso Coaster ~36 min typical · up to 46 at peak · worst around 9pm36m
  3. 3JOKER™: Carnival of Chaos ~31 min typical · up to 21 at peak · worst around 10pm31m

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. 1Poltergeist~25 min typical · about 5 min after 7pm5m
  2. 2The Gully Washer~23 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m
  3. 3Scream!~19 min typical · about 4 min after 7pm4m
  4. 4SUPERMAN™ KRYPTON Coaster~25 min typical · about 11 min after 11pm11m
  5. 5Iron Rattler~26 min typical · about 14 min after 5pm14m

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 minutesMETROPOLIS™ Transit Authority8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Hurricane Force 5running 40% of the park's open hours40%
  2. 2BATMAN™ The Riderunning 52% of the park's open hours52%
  3. 3Fireballrunning 58% of the park's open hours58%
  4. 4The Gully Washerrunning 70% of the park's open hours70%
  5. 5Pandemoniumrunning 77% of the park's open hours77%

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.