Haunted Mansion wait times

What it is

A slow, spooky-funny ride through a ghost-filled mansion in black "Doom Buggies". It's more atmosphere than scares, though the dark and the ghosts can unsettle very small children.

Thrill level: ●●●●● Mild (2/5) · mostly in the dark · spooky for little ones · no height requirement

Opened: 1 October 1971 (55 years ago)

Best time to ride

Quietest: around 8am (typically ~13 min posted). Busiest: around 11am (~25 min). In the first 15 minutes after the park opens it typically posts ~13 min.

Typical means the median posted wait across every day in our log at that hour; crowd level, weather and breakdowns move it. For a specific date, the planner adjusts for that day’s forecast crowd.

Typical posted wait by hour

Bar = median; numbers on the right = typical range (middle half of days).

By day of the weekaverage 10am–6pm

Posted vs real wait

Disney’s posted waits run high. For Haunted Mansion, a posted 60 minutes at 2pm has typically meant about 40 minutes in line, and at 8pm about 38 (from timed waits people recorded, 2015–2021 — before today’s Lightning Lane system, so treat it as an estimate). DisneyIQ shows both numbers on the live board.

Did you know?

It is home to "999 happy haunts — but there's always room for one more."

An opening-day original at Magic Kingdom.

Ride facts

About 9 minutes including boarding · Seating: Doom Buggies, 2 (squeeze 3) per buggy · Lightning Lane: Tier 2