Kings Island wait time statistics

Flight of Fear has the longest average wait at Kings Island, at 48 minutes, followed by JASON: Blood Reign (40 minutes) and Alien Abyss presented by SNICKERS® (39 minutes). 6 of the 33 rides have an average wait of 15 minutes or less.

JASON: Blood Reign sees the longest peak waits at Kings Island, with its daily maximum averaging 76 minutes, ahead of Flight of Fear (71 minutes) and Alien Abyss presented by SNICKERS® (65 minutes).

Kings Island is usually quietest in June, July, and August, when crowd levels average as low as 40%. The busiest month tends to be October, at around 67%.

Thursday is typically the quietest day of the week at Kings Island, averaging 32% compared with 74% on Saturday. On average, weekdays are 25 percentage points quieter than weekends.

So far in 2026, crowd levels at Kings Island are similar to the same point in 2025 (49% compared with 48%). Of the full years on record, 2023 was the busiest, averaging 53%. 2020 and 2021 are left out of these comparisons because COVID-19 closures and capacity limits affected crowd levels in those years.