🌤️ [Sunday visitors] 65 of 104 Sundays stay under the yearly average?
Most plans file Sunday next to Saturday and call it the weekend. Counted on its own, one day at a time, Sunday lands on the same level as the whole year, and the room rates barely move with it.
Sunday is half of the weekend, yet on the seven-step scale it sits where the whole year sits. Pulled out of the 724 days we cover, the 104 Sundays average Normal against Normal for the year. 65 of them, 63%, stay at or below the yearly average. Only 12 of those nights push room rates up.
Of the 76 Sundays still ahead, the table lists the 40 quietest. Each level is what we expect of that date, not a record of how many came.
- Sep 27SunEasyroom↓
- Jul 4SunEasyroom↓
- Jul 11SunEasyroom↓
- Jul 25SunEasyroom↓
- Aug 1SunEasyroom↓
- Aug 8SunEasyroom↓
- Aug 22SunEasyroom↓
- Aug 29SunEasyroom↓
- Sep 5SunEasyroom↓
- Sep 12SunEasyroom↓
- Sep 26SunEasyroom↓
- Jan 17SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jan 24SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jan 31SunFairly easyroom↓
- Apr 11SunFairly easyroom↓
- Apr 18SunFairly easyroom↓
- Apr 25SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jun 6SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jun 13SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jun 20SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jun 27SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jul 18SunFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 15SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jan 16SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jan 23SunFairly easyroom↓
- Jan 30SunFairly easyroom↓
- Sep 20SunNormalroom↑
- Oct 4SunNormalroom↓
- Oct 18SunNormalroom↓
- Oct 25SunNormalroom↓
- Jan 3SunNormalroom↓
- Apr 4SunNormalroom↓
- May 9SunNormalroom↓
- May 16SunNormalroom↓
- May 23SunNormalroom↓
- May 30SunNormalroom↓
- Sep 19SunNormalroom↑
- Oct 3SunNormalroom↓
- Oct 17SunNormalroom↓
- Oct 24SunNormalroom↓
🌤️ Half the weekend, and still the yearly level!
Out of the 724 days we cover, 104 are Sundays, 14% of the whole. They average Normal; the year averages Normal. That is the same level.
65 of them, 63%, never climb above the yearly average. Sunday is not the heavy half of the weekend; it sits in the middle of the year.
⛰️ Only 6 of the year's 32 peak days are Sundays!?
32 days reach the top level or the step below it. 6 of them are Sundays; the other 26 stand outside the day entirely.
Inside Sunday the range is wide: the lowest day is Easy, the highest Packed — 5 steps apart within one weekday.
By level, the top two bands (Busy and Packed) hold just 6% of all Sundays; the rest sit below them.
🏨 Weekend means dear rooms — does it hold?
Counted by night, 12 Sundays push room rates up and 92 pull them down.
For a weekend night, the climbing side is the small one. Rates read tomorrow, and tomorrow is a working day. Park crowds and room rates takes the mechanism.
| Level | Land | Sea |
|---|---|---|
| Wide open | 25min | 30min |
| Easy | 40min | 45min |
| Fairly easy | 55min | 60min |
| Normal | 80min | 95min |
| Fairly busy | 95min | 110min |
| Busy | 120min | 140min |
| Packed | 135min | 155min |
Longest wait, roughly
🗓️ There is still a choice inside Sunday!
Split by level, the light end holds 20 at Easy, 28 at Fairly easy. Even inside one weekday, the pick is real.
Ahead of today the lowest is Sep 27 (Sun) at Easy, the highest Mar 21 (Sun) at Packed.
Which half of the weekend wins is settled in Saturday vs Sunday; the full order of the week is in crowds by weekday.
Last updated: 2026-09-11
othree / CC BY 2.0📅[Weekday visitors] Why are all 143 quietest days Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday?Monday is the busiest weekday — busier than Sunday. So much for "Mondays are quiet." Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday tie for quietest.
Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0📊[Flexible dates] July vs November: how much does it change?February is the busiest month, two steps above the quietest. Autumn and January run quiet. Compared on plain weekdays, holidays and breaks removed.
Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🎌[Holiday travelers] The last day won in all 15 runs!Summer break barely lifts the crowd at all — only Obon spikes. Holiday runs matter far more: the last day was the softest in all eight, without exception.
othree / CC BY 2.0🔍[Accuracy check] We checked two years of data. How did it do?Is "just avoid weekends" good enough? We scored our forecast against two years of measured data. Rank correlation 0.599, against 0.114 for avoiding weekends.
Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🔥[Before you pick a date] Only 7 days a year hit the top level?Of the 724 days we forecast, only 7 reach the top level. The peaks gather on weekends and public holidays, so a small shift in date moves it.
othree / CC BY 2.0📏[Reading the levels] How many minutes separate "Busy" from "Fairly busy"?"Busy" and "Fairly busy" sound alike, but at Tokyo Disneyland the longest queue differs by 25 minutes. All 7 levels, in minutes.
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