Opening hours
Animal Kingdom is scheduled to open at 8:00 AM and close at 6:00 PM ET on Monday, October 26, a 10-hour day. Hours come from the park schedule feed we read each day. They can change without notice, so confirm in the app before you leave for the gate.
Wait times right now
No rides at Animal Kingdom are posting a wait time right now. Outside operating hours that is expected. During the day it usually means the feed is between updates, so refresh in a few minutes.
These figures are more than ten minutes old, so read them as the latest posted numbers rather than live ones.
Closures and refurbishments
13 of 13 rides are not operating right now. Closed: Affection Section, Animal Care at Conservation Station, Avatar Flight of Passage, Discovery Island Trails, Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain, Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail, Kali River Rapids, Kilimanjaro Safaris and 5 more. A ride that is down can reopen within the hour, while a refurbishment is planned and lasts days or weeks.
Busiest hour and the rest of the day
We do not publish a peak hour so far for the day, because the wait history behind it is not public yet. What we can show is the typical Monday: across the rides at Animal Kingdom, the median posted wait usually peaks around 11 AM at roughly 46 minutes.
For the rest of today, past Mondays point to 5 PM as the quietest remaining hour (about 17 minutes) and 11 AM as the busiest (about 46). This is built from earlier Mondays, not from today's crowd, and it is not the app's forecast. A holiday, a weather change or a ride going down can move the whole day.
How to read this report
Wait times are the posted minutes that Animal Kingdom publishes for each ride, collected every few minutes from a public attractions feed. A posted wait is the park's own estimate, and the time you actually spend in line can differ. Counts and averages cover rides only, so shows and character meets are left out of the numbers.
This page rebuilds from the latest data each time it refreshes, so it describes today and replaces itself tomorrow. For a ride-by-ride view, open the live wait times for Animal Kingdom. To plan another day, the crowd calendar shows the weekday pattern for the weeks ahead.