How Busy Was Thorpe Park on Sunday, 13 September 2026?
Thorpe Park was quiet on Sunday, 13 September 2026. Across the day the average wait across all rides was 14 minutes, with the longest queue reaching 48 minutes for Ghost Train 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: Ghost Train at 48 minutes (around 13:00).
- Average across all rides: 14 minutes.
- Quietest hour: 10:00 UK time.
| Ride | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storm Surge | 8 | 26 | 47 | 37 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 28 | 24 | 15 | 30 |
| Ghost Train | – | – | 43 | 48 | 25 | 31 | 29 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 28 |
| Hyperia | 15 | 26 | 32 | 26 | 35 | 37 | 28 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 24 |
| Depth Charge | 9 | 25 | 30 | 18 | 32 | 20 | 28 | 25 | – | – | 23 |
| Nemesis Inferno | 7 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 40 | 36 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| Flying Fish | 9 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 28 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 |
| The Walking Dead©: The Ride | 5 | – | 5 | 21 | 23 | 30 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| Big Easy Bumpers | 5 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 29 | 23 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| SAW - The Ride | 5 | 15 | 31 | 11 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| The Swarm | 8 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| Stealth | 5 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| Quantum | 5 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| High Striker | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 13 |
| Colossus | 5 | 11 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | – | 11 |
| Mr Monkey's Banana Ride | 5 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 22 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| Rush | 5 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 5 | – | 10 |
| Samurai | 5 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| Detonator | 5 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| Dobble Tea Party | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Tidal Wave | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | – | 6 |
| Ready Player One 4D Experience | Age Rating 12A | – | – | 5 | 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 Sunday, 13 September 2026
Sunday 13 September was a quiet day at Thorpe Park. Across every ride we recorded, the average standby wait came out at 14 minutes, roughly 31% below the 20-minute average across every day we have recorded.
That makes it a quieter-than-usual Sunday — other Sundays in the archive average 20 minutes. Against September as a whole, which averages 17 minutes, it was one of the lighter days of the month. Weekends are consistently the busiest part of the week here, so this is the harder end of the spectrum to plan around.
Queues followed the usual pattern: they built through the morning, peaked across the middle of the day (averaging 19 minutes between 12:00 and 15:00), then eased off through the afternoon. The quietest hour across the park was 10:00. The single longest queue we recorded was Ghost Train at 48 minutes, around 13:00.
The rides holding the longest queues were Storm Surge, Ghost Train and Hyperia — Storm Surge averaged 30 minutes across the whole day and touched 47 at its worst. At the other end, six rides averaged 10 minutes or less — Rush, Samurai, Detonator and Dobble Tea Party were close to walk-on for most of the day. The spread between the busiest and quietest ride was 25 minutes, which is wide enough that where you chose to walk mattered more than when you arrived.
On a day at this level, the standard tactics are enough on their own. Arriving at opening and working through the headline coasters first would have cleared the biggest queues before they built, and there would have been no case for paying to skip anything. 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 10 hours of operation, from 10:00 to 19:00, 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.