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Quietest days coming up: Tue 25 Aug (3/10) · Tue 1 Sep (3/10) · Tue 8 Sep (3/10)
Busiest: Sat 28 Nov (10/10) — Thanksgiving weekend
July and August — the short Minnesota summer, which concentrates almost all attendance into two months.
May, June and September — May, early June and September weekends at the edges of the season.
Local knowledge: The season is compressed into a few months, so the shoulder weekends in May and September are unusually good value for low waits.
Each day starts from how that weekday normally runs at Valleyfair, learned from our own recorded wait snapshots as they accumulate, and is raised for public holidays and school-holiday periods. It is a forecast of relative busyness, not a promise: a 3 means a day that usually runs quiet for this park, not a guarantee of short lines. The further out a date sits, the more it leans on the weekday pattern alone.
Want the live picture instead? Valleyfair wait times has today's queues, the hour-by-hour curve and what counts as a normal wait here. Planning a specific day? Open the planner and it will build a route around these crowd levels.