Space Mountain wait times

What it is

An indoor roller coaster in near-total darkness under a starfield. You ride single file in small rockets, so it feels much faster and wilder than it actually is.

Thrill level: ●●●●● Thrilling (4/5) · mostly in the dark · high speed · indoors · must be 44 in (112 cm) or taller

Opened: 15 January 1975 (51 years ago)

Best time to ride

Quietest: around 8am (typically ~20 min posted). Busiest: around 11am (~40 min). In the first 15 minutes after the park opens it typically posts ~20 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

Through the year2015–2021 history

Average posted wait by month from 2015–2021 records. Waits ran higher before the current Lightning Lane system, so read this for the seasonal shape — which months are busiest — not for today’s numbers; the hourly table above is current.

Posted vs real wait

Disney’s posted waits run high. For Space Mountain, a posted 60 minutes at 2pm has typically meant about 44 minutes in line, and at 8pm about 40 (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 the oldest operating roller coaster in Florida.

There are two separate tracks, Alpha and Omega, side by side in the same building.

Ride facts

About 8 minutes including boarding · Height requirement 44 in (112 cm) · Seating: single file — everyone gets their own rocket seat · Lightning Lane: Tier 1