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Universal Studios Beijing cheat sheet

worked out from 22 days of our own wait data22 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™, Jurassic Flyers and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles first. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 42 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Monday

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. 10:0026m
  2. 11:0042mpeak
  3. 12:0039m
  4. 13:0037m
  5. 14:0039m
  6. 15:0041m
  7. 16:0037m
  8. 17:0035m
  9. 18:0032m
  10. 19:0025m
  11. 20:0023m
  12. 21:0016mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 11:00 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. 1Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™ ~74 min typical · up to 61 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour74m
  2. 2Jurassic Flyers ~67 min typical · up to 62 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour67m
  3. 3The Grave Robbers' Chronicles ~61 min typical · up to 68 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour61m

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

Fill the gaps with

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

Usually under 10 minutesThe Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ Entrance5mLights Camera Action!5mCarousel of Kung Fu Heroes9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Identity V-Escape from White Sand Streetrunning 30% of the park's open hours30%
  2. 2The Grave Robbers' Chroniclesrunning 31% of the park's open hours31%
  3. 3The House of Hua Pirunning 31% of the park's open hours31%
  4. 4A Quiet Placerunning 31% of the park's open hours31%
  5. 5Universal Monsters Cryptrunning 31% of the park's open hours31%

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.