How Busy Was Thorpe Park on Tuesday, 14 July 2026?
Thorpe Park was very busy on Tuesday, 14 July 2026. Across the day the average wait across all rides was 41 minutes, with the longest queue reaching 150 minutes for Hyperia around 13:00. 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: Hyperia at 150 minutes (around 13:00).
- Average across all rides: 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperia | – | 95 | 130 | 145 | 150 | 148 | 125 | 97 | 90 | 123 |
| Tidal Wave | – | 6 | 68 | 93 | 115 | 104 | 82 | 62 | 38 | 71 |
| Storm Surge | – | 15 | 72 | 80 | 104 | 81 | 71 | 59 | 37 | 65 |
| The Swarm | – | 40 | 101 | 106 | 101 | 77 | 51 | 24 | 9 | 64 |
| SAW - The Ride | – | 32 | 97 | 114 | 89 | 77 | 58 | 32 | 15 | 64 |
| Colossus | – | 26 | 99 | 101 | 86 | 76 | 51 | 29 | 13 | 60 |
| Nemesis Inferno | – | 29 | 82 | 119 | 80 | 75 | 48 | 28 | 8 | 59 |
| Stealth | – | 28 | 76 | 86 | 77 | 54 | 41 | 29 | 8 | 50 |
| The Walking Dead©: The Ride | – | 8 | 77 | 79 | 71 | 59 | 51 | 25 | 12 | 48 |
| Rush | – | 14 | 64 | 59 | 51 | 50 | 38 | 28 | 24 | 41 |
| Samurai | – | 9 | 47 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 37 | 18 | 11 | 34 |
| Ghost Train | – | – | – | 44 | 53 | 49 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 30 |
| Detonator | – | 5 | 42 | 55 | 41 | 30 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 28 |
| Depth Charge | 5 | 7 | 25 | 42 | 45 | 40 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 26 |
| Flying Fish | – | 7 | 37 | 38 | 31 | 34 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 24 |
| Big Easy Bumpers | – | 5 | 20 | 30 | 33 | 24 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 19 |
| Quantum | – | 6 | 18 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| High Striker | – | 5 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 13 |
| Mr Monkey's Banana Ride | – | 5 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
| Dobble Tea Party | – | 5 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| 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, 14 July 2026
Tuesday 14 July was a very busy day at Thorpe Park. Across every ride we recorded, the average standby wait came out at 41 minutes, about 108% above the 20-minute average across every day we have recorded.
That makes it a busier-than-usual Tuesday — other Tuesdays in the archive average 18 minutes. Against July as a whole, which averages 26 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 58 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 Hyperia at 150 minutes, around 13:00.
The rides holding the longest queues were Hyperia, Tidal Wave and Storm Surge — Hyperia averaged 123 minutes across the whole day and touched 150 at its worst. Nine rides averaged 45 minutes or more, which is the point at which a day starts to feel like queueing rather than riding. Dobble Tea Party and Ready Player One 4D Experience | Age Rating 12A stayed at 10 minutes or under and were the easiest wins available. The spread between the busiest and quietest ride was 118 minutes, which is wide enough that where you chose to walk mattered more than when you arrived.
Days like this are the hardest to enjoy without preparation. Arriving before the gates open is close to essential, the middle of the day is best avoided on the headline coasters entirely, and if you were ever going to buy Fastrack, this is the kind of day it is actually worth it on. 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 and our analysis of whether Fastrack is worth it.
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.