How Busy Was Thorpe Park on Tuesday, 23 June 2026?
Thorpe Park was moderately busy on Tuesday, 23 June 2026. Across the day the average wait across all rides was 19 minutes, with the longest queue reaching 87 minutes for Tidal Wave around 14:00. The full hour-by-hour breakdown for every ride is below.
Average wait in minutes per ride per hour (UK time), recorded on the day from the park's live wait-time system.
- Longest wait of the day: Tidal Wave at 87 minutes (around 14:00).
- Average across all rides: 19 minutes.
- Quietest hour: 17:00 UK time.
| Ride | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tidal Wave | – | 9 | 75 | 48 | 73 | 87 | 57 | 44 | 20 | 52 |
| Storm Surge | – | 10 | 53 | 49 | 50 | 48 | 45 | 42 | 29 | 41 |
| Hyperia | – | 44 | 54 | 50 | 46 | 42 | 41 | 25 | 20 | 40 |
| Depth Charge | 50 | 55 | 25 | 30 | 32 | 25 | 27 | 22 | 8 | 30 |
| The Swarm | – | 5 | 47 | 57 | 37 | 35 | 26 | 16 | 10 | 29 |
| SAW - The Ride | – | 21 | 42 | 43 | 31 | 32 | 13 | 29 | 15 | 28 |
| Nemesis Inferno | – | 17 | 42 | 43 | 29 | 30 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 25 |
| Stealth | – | 16 | 44 | 36 | 27 | 21 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 24 |
| Colossus | – | 17 | 43 | 41 | 26 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 23 |
| Rush | – | 9 | 32 | 27 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 20 |
| Vortex | – | 6 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 16 |
| Ghost Train | – | – | – | 17 | 26 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| The Walking Dead©: The Ride | – | 5 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| Detonator | – | 6 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| Big Easy Bumpers | – | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Quantum | – | 5 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Flying Fish | – | 5 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Dobble Tea Party | – | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Mr Monkey's Banana Ride | – | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| High Striker | – | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ready Player One 4D Experience | Age Rating 12A | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Cells show the average standby wait during that hour. Blue = 20 min or under, orange = 21–60 min, navy = over 60 min.
What happened on Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Tuesday 23 June was a moderately busy day at Thorpe Park. Across every ride we recorded, the average standby wait came out at 19 minutes, which is close to the 20-minute average across every day in our archive.
That is a typical Tuesday by our records, which average 20 minutes. Against June as a whole, which averages 16 minutes, it was one of the heavier days of the month.
Queues followed the usual pattern: they built through the morning, peaked across the middle of the day (averaging 23 minutes between 12:00 and 15:00), then eased off through the afternoon. The quietest hour across the park was 17:00. The single longest queue we recorded was Tidal Wave at 87 minutes, around 14:00.
The rides holding the longest queues were Tidal Wave, Storm Surge and Hyperia — Tidal Wave averaged 52 minutes across the whole day and touched 87 at its worst. At the other end, eight rides averaged 10 minutes or less — Detonator, Big Easy Bumpers, Quantum and Flying Fish were close to walk-on for most of the day. The spread between the busiest and quietest ride was 47 minutes, which is wide enough that where you chose to walk mattered more than when you arrived.
This is the level at which planning starts to pay. Rope-dropping the two rides with the longest queues, eating before 12:00, and saving re-rides for the final hour would each have been worth roughly one extra ride over the day. You can compare this with other dates in the full archive, work out which days of the year behave like this using the queue calendar, and read the underlying tactics in our guide to beating the queues.
Based on readings taken every 2 minutes across 8 hours of operation, from 10:00 to 17:00, covering 21 rides. Figures are the wait times posted by the park, averaged per hour; a dash in the table means the ride reported no wait for that hour, usually because it was closed.