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Alton Towers

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Historical queue times (2025-10-29)

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Ride statistics

Current queue time 110 mins
Opened 2013-05-31
Duration 2 minutes, 45 seconds
Maximum height 30m
Maximum speed 85km/h
Maximum G-force 4.5G
Number of inversions 14
Number of vehicles 4
Riders per vehicle 16
Ride cost £18,000,000
Ride type Infinity Coaster
Ride manufacturer Gerstlauer
Length 1170m
Minimum rider height 1.4m
On ride photo available Yes
Coordinates (OSM) 52.9873, -1.89544

Average queue time by year (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

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Year Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
2016 — —
2017 — —
2018 — —
2019 — —
2020 — —
2021 — —
2022 — —
2023 34 53
2024 — —
2025 — —

Average queue time by month (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

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Month Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
Apr 29 48
May 43 63

Average queue time by day (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

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Day Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
Sun 42 57
Mon 39 63
Tue 42 65
Wed 17 35
Thu 29 43
Fri 24 42
Sat 44 67

Top 10 longest queues (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

Day Queue time, mins
May 02, 2023 100
May 01, 2023 90
May 06, 2023 70
April 29, 2023 70
April 27, 2023 70
April 30, 2023 65
May 07, 2023 60
April 22, 2023 60
April 17, 2023 60
April 18, 2023 50

Average queue time by hour (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

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Hour Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
10 35 45
11 44 50
12 37 44
13 30 36
14 30 36
15 32 40
16 41 44
17 28 32

Average queue time by week of year (🎢 Festival of Thrills, all time)

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