How the Orlando Crowd Score works

This site turns posted standby waits at Orlando’s big theme parks into one number from 1 (very quiet) to 10 (extreme), plus a mini-score for each park.

It covers Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, Epic Universe, and SeaWorld Orlando. Water parks are left out on purpose.

The formula

For each park we look at operating headliner attractions — the popular rides people actually queue for, not every spinner, exhibit, or walkthrough. We average their posted standby waits.

If fewer than three headliners are posting a wait (seasonal closures, refurbishments, early morning), we fall back to every operating attraction that has a numeric standby wait, and we treat that as a thinner reading.

The citywide score is the average of parks that are open right now, rounded to the nearest whole number. Closed parks are labeled Closed and left out. If every park is closed, you see a dash instead of a score — not a made-up number.

Starter scale

Until a park has at least 50 of our own open-park snapshots (about a week of operating hours at a 10-minute cadence), we map the average wait to a score with these fixed bands:

Score	Average headliner wait
1 · Very quiet	0–14 min
2 · Quiet	15–24 min
3 · Easygoing	25–34 min
4 · Moderate	35–44 min
5 · Getting busy	45–54 min
6 · Busy	55–64 min
7 · Crowded	65–79 min
8 · Very crowded	80–94 min
9 · Packed	95–109 min
10 · Extreme	110+ min

What happens once we have history

We record our own snapshots every 10 minutes. We do not invent historical numbers, and we do not import anyone else’s archive.

After 50 snapshots for a park, that park switches to a percentile score: how today’s average wait compares with this park’s own past snapshots. A 7 means the current average is higher than about 70% of what we have recorded there. We have collected 12 snapshots so far.

Hours and missing data

Each park card shows today’s regular opening and closing times from ThemeParks.wiki. If the feed also lists extra windows — such as Early Entry or other ticketed hours — we show those too. Extra hours are displayed only; they do not change the crowd score. If a park is outside its regular hours and isn’t posting waits, we mark it closed. If it is inside hours but waits have not appeared yet, we say so instead of guessing.

Orlando weather

Current conditions and today’s forecast (including the high, low when posted, and chance of rain) come from the U.S. National Weather Service for Orlando. We cache that reading on the same 10-minute refresh as the crowd score. If the weather service is briefly unavailable, we leave it blank rather than guess.

Headliners we count

Magic Kingdom: Space Mountain, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Tiana's Bayou Adventure, TRON Lightcycle, Big Thunder Mountain, Peter Pan's Flight, Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise, Jingle Cruise, Buzz Lightyear

EPCOT: Guardians of the Galaxy, Test Track, Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille, Soarin, Mission SPACE, Spaceship Earth

Hollywood Studios: Rise of the Resistance, Slinky Dog Dash, Tower of Terror, Rock n Roller Coaster, Runaway Railway, Millennium Falcon, Toy Story Mania, Star Tours

Animal Kingdom: Flight of Passage, Expedition Everest, Na'vi River Journey, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Kali River Rapids, Zootopia

Universal Studios Florida: Escape from Gringotts, Revenge of the Mummy, TRANSFORMERS, MEN IN BLACK, Simpsons Ride, E.T. Adventure, Race Through New York, Minion Mayhem, Villain-Con Minion Blast, Trolls Trollercoaster

Islands of Adventure: Hagrid's, VelociCoaster, Forbidden Journey, Incredible Hulk, Jurassic Park River Adventure, Reign of Kong, Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Dudley Do-Right, Flight of the Hippogriff

Epic Universe: Mario Kart, Mine-Cart Madness, Stardust Racers, Battle at the Ministry, Monsters Unchained, Curse of the Werewolf, Dragon Racer's Rally, Hiccup's Wing Gliders

SeaWorld Orlando: Mako, Manta, Kraken, Ice Breaker, Pipeline, Journey to Atlantis, Infinity Falls, Penguin Trek, Expedition Odyssey

Seasonal names are included where they matter — for example, Jungle Cruise becoming Jingle Cruise.

Where the data comes from

Live waits and schedules are from ThemeParks.wiki, used under its free tier with the required credit. The data must stay an input to this page, not a feed we pass on, so this site does not offer a public wait-times API or bulk export.

Weather comes from the National Weather Service. Photographs are public-domain images of downtown Orlando and Lake Eola — see photo credits.

Wait times originate in the parks’ own systems. They are estimates and can be wrong, stale, or missing. This is a planning convenience, not an official crowd calendar, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Disney, Universal, or SeaWorld.