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Six Flags Over Texas cheat sheet

worked out from 30 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Runaway Mine Train, MR. FREEZE and THE RIDDLER™'s Revenge first. Leave Titan until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 10 minutes. The park's queues peak around 21:00 at 26 minutes and are lowest around 13:00.

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. 12:0018m
  2. 13:0017mquietest
  3. 14:0018m
  4. 15:0020m
  5. 16:0022m
  6. 17:0023m
  7. 18:0018m
  8. 19:0020m
  9. 20:0023m
  10. 21:0026mpeak

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 21:00 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. 1Runaway Mine Train ~71 min typical71m
  2. 2MR. FREEZE ~37 min typical · up to 90 at peak · worst around 11pm37m
  3. 3THE RIDDLER™'s Revenge ~36 min typical · up to 33 at peak · worst around 10pm36m

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. 1Titan~32 min typical · about 10 min after 7pm10m
  2. 2Runaway Mountain~24 min typical · about 5 min after 5pm5m
  3. 3SUPERMAN: Tower of Power~25 min typical · about 7 min after 6pm7m
  4. 4Tormenta Rampaging Run~32 min typical · about 15 min after 8pm15m
  5. 5BATMAN™ The Ride~28 min typical · about 11 min after 7pm11m

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

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Runaway Mine Trainrunning 2% of the park's open hours2%
  2. 2Roaring Rapidsrunning 57% of the park's open hours57%
  3. 3New Texas Giantrunning 58% of the park's open hours58%
  4. 4Titanrunning 60% of the park's open hours60%
  5. 5El Aserraderorunning 68% of the park's open hours68%

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.