Best Time to Ride Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
See when Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind has the shortest and longest waits at EPCOT, hour by hour, from real wait-time data.
Average wait by hour
Hour-by-hour average posted wait while the ride is operating. This is the same live history ParkCharter schedules your day around.
When to ride Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind averages its shortest waits around 1 PM (about 66 minutes) and its longest around 7 PM (about 87 minutes).
Based on 1,054 wait-time readings from the last 14 days (2026-10-13 to 2026-10-27, America/New_York). Refreshed daily. How we measure
What 90 days of history shows
The hourly chart above covers the last two weeks, which is the right window for what today looks like. These three take the long view, where a weekday pattern needs a full season before it means anything.
Quietest day of the week
Across the last 90 days, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind has run its shortest lines on Wednesdays (about 60 minutes) and its longest on Saturdays (about 90 minutes), a difference of roughly 30 minutes.
Median posted wait per weekday. Medians, not averages, so one breakdown day does not move the number.
What the end of the day is worth
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind peaks around 7 PM at a median of 85 minutes. By 9 PM that median is 75 minutes, so riding late rather than at the peak has been worth about 10 minutes in line. Your own day can differ, and this is what the history showed.
How often it goes down
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was reported temporarily down in about 4% of the checks taken while it was scheduled to be running, across the last 90 days. Build a little slack into the day around it.
Measured against the checks taken while the ride was scheduled to be running, not against every check. More than half of all readings on any ride are taken overnight while the park is closed.
Based on 6,726 readings taken while Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was operating, 2026-07-29 to 2026-10-27, America/New_York. How we measure
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