Carowinds wait time statistics

Copperhead Strike has the longest average wait at Carowinds, at 25 minutes, followed by Fury 325 (22 minutes) and Snoopy’s Racing Railway (21 minutes). 35 of the 43 rides have an average wait of 15 minutes or less.

Copperhead Strike sees the longest peak waits at Carowinds, with its daily maximum averaging 38 minutes, ahead of Fury 325 (34 minutes) and Snoopy’s Racing Railway (31 minutes).

Carowinds is usually quietest in July, August, and November, when crowd levels average as low as 38%. The busiest month tends to be April, at around 68%.

Wednesday is typically the quietest day of the week at Carowinds, averaging 34% compared with 68% on Saturday. On average, weekdays are 19 percentage points quieter than weekends.

So far in 2026, Carowinds is running 10 percentage points quieter than at the same point in 2025 (40% compared with 50%). Of the full years on record, 2019 was the busiest, averaging 65%. 2020 and 2021 are left out of these comparisons because COVID-19 closures and capacity limits affected crowd levels in those years.