"it's a small world" wait times

What it is

A slow boat ride past hundreds of singing dolls from around the world, all to the one song you'll be humming for the rest of the day. Indoors and calm.

Thrill level: ●●●●● Gentle (1/5) · indoors · no height requirement

Opened: 1 October 1971 (55 years ago)

Best time to ride

Quietest: around 8am (typically ~5 min posted). Busiest: around 12pm (~15 min). In the first 15 minutes after the park opens it typically posts ~5 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 "it's a small world", 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's a small world" was created for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair and came to Magic Kingdom for opening day.

Ride facts

About 11 minutes including boarding · Seating: boat rows of 4 · Lightning Lane: Tier 2