🎡 [Weekend-only visitors] Saturday and Sunday land on the same step?

Count a full year of Saturdays and a full year of Sundays apart from each other, and the park side and the room-rate side come back with different answers. If the weekend is all you have, both sides are laid out here before you pick one.

We counted a full year of Saturdays (103) and Sundays (104) separately. Saturday averages Normal; Sunday averages Normal. On the seven-step scale they land together. Room rates read climbing on Saturday and average on Sunday.

🎡 The two land on the same step!

We counted a full year: 103 Saturdays and 104 Sundays, kept apart.

Saturday averages Normal, Sunday Normal. On the seven-step scale they sit together. Crowd level alone gives you no reason to pick one over the other this year.

The levels are our own prediction for each date, not a count of anyone through the gates. What we put side by side is one yardstick applied twice.

📊 The average hides things!?

Saturday spreads from Easy to Packed; Sunday from Easy to Packed.

Both stay inside the same band of levels, so the insides are closer than the averages suggest.

Move one step and the longest queue of the day moves with it. The table below is a per-level guide, not a promise that you will wait exactly that long.

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

🏨 What about room rates?

Rates read climbing on Saturday and average on Sunday. Rates track whether the next day is a day off, not whether today is busy.

The park side ends level, so the deciding factor is the room rate, and that favours Sunday.

Park crowds and room rates follows the rate side on its own.

📅 Which weekend is lightest!

Ahead of today, the lightest Saturday is Sep 19 (Sat) and the lightest Sunday is Sep 27 (Sun).

Shifting one day into the week beats choosing between the two weekend days. The weekday order is in crowds by weekday.

If the weekend is all you have, the gap above is the whole range available to you. It is still a real choice, and it still changes the day.

• 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.