This information to August 2024 at Walt Disney Global includes a unfastened crowd calendar, when to talk over with & keep away from, climate, new enchantment openings & closures, and summer season occasions. We additionally quilt information & pointers for what’s taking place at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. (Up to date July 22, 2024.)
August is the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel for summer time at Walt Disney Global. It’s nonetheless probably the most worst months of the yr to talk over with due to the elements, however a minimum of there are decrease crowd ranges and seasonal occasions against the top of August. We’ll tension the similar factor right here that we did in our July 2024 Crowd Calendar for Walt Disney Global: “a scorching and wet day at Walt Disney Global is best than a super day at house.”
To underscore that time, and assist relieve the ones of you who’ve already deliberate holidays for August: this was our go-to month to talk over with Walt Disney Global. Again once we had been nonetheless at school, we took our annual WDW commute in overdue August. There was once a couple of two week “secret window” once we visited.
Right through this week, maximum Ok-12 scholars had been again at school, however faculty categories had no longer but resumed. Park hours had been nonetheless lengthy, and crowds had been low. A few of my fondest recollections of Walt Disney Global are from the ones additional overdue closings in Magic Kingdom, walking via a nearly abandoned park. Now that we’re locals and talk over with always, August is some distance from our favourite month.
Walt Disney Global has gotten higher (or worse, from our viewpoint) and extra subtle with its crowd forecasting fashions, and this “secret window” isn’t relatively as excellent because it as soon as was once. Each park except for Animal Kingdom opens later and closes previous than it used to.
Walt Disney Global’s date-based price tag pricing and Annual Move blockout dates have additionally been quite efficient at redistributing crowds. However, there’s solely such a lot of individuals who can or wish to talk over with throughout overdue August, and that quantity isn’t sufficient to lead to vital crowd ranges–or anything else just about it. That is nonetheless very a lot the low season at Walt Disney Global!
Right here’s what else you’ll be expecting from August at Walt Disney Global…
August Climate at Disney Global
In the case of climate, it’s nonetheless sweltering, intense back-sweat warmth and humidity. It’s proper there with August in the case of the worst climate of the yr, with relaxed climate solely 15% of the time–and that 15% happens between like 2:13 and 5:49 a.m., so it doesn’t do you any excellent until you’re nocturnal.
Temperatures are beautiful constant all over August, however constant isn’t synonymous with “excellent.” Day-to-day lows are round 74°F on a regular basis, and highs are round 90°F lots of the month, going above 94°F or losing under 87°F solely someday in ten. Learn our Pointers for Beating Summer season Warmth & Humidity put up for methods to reduce the impact of unsightly summer season climate for your holiday.
The excellent news? It’s within the mid-70s yr spherical at Walt Disney Global’s indoor sights due to the real Disney magic: air-con. The unhealthy information? Deficient climate in August is exacerbated by way of prime humidity and rain. Humidity ranges exceed 94% for almost all of the month, and it rains 70% of days. August is the center of storm and hurricane season in Florida, so that you will have to be ready for that.
We already blathered on about El Niño within the July at Walt Disney Global put up. Suffice to mention, there’s nonetheless the robust likelihood of that during August, because it’s the worst month of the yr for tropical storms. Along with our usual Distinctive Pieces to Pack for Disney, you’ll wish to pack the reasonable 10-packs of ponchos; we’d suggest ordering 1 according to individual according to day. However, you may simply pick out up some top quality, reusable Frogg Toggs Rainsuits. The ones may glance dorky, however you are going to be thanking me by way of the top of the commute. In reality.
AUGUST SPECIAL EVENTS AT WDW
August is mainly two other months in the case of Walt Disney Global’s “seasons.” The start of the month is summer season, this means that a handful of seasonal choices. The most important of those is the “Disney Goals That Bounce” drone display at Disney Springs. This may run for all the month of August and we extremely suggest seeing it! In reality, “Disney Goals That Bounce” is the spotlight of summer time at Walt Disney Global!
Throughout the parks, the ¡Celebración Encanto! Sing-Alongside at EPCOT and CommuniCore Corridor are each now open. Neither are anything else particular, however you probably have youngsters, they may benefit from the Encanto sing-along. There’s additionally the Lion King thirtieth Anniversary Birthday celebration at Animal Kingdom. This is also slightly unremarkable. Each of this stuff additionally run for everything of August 2024.
The second one part of August 2024 is the beginning of fall. Neatly, no longer technically by way of any actual international season requirements, however issues are other in Central Florida. Halloween in reality starts within the first part of the month (sure, you learn that accurately) and in reality will get going by way of mid-month. See When Do Halloween Decorations Move Up at Walt Disney Global? for information on that.
Talking of spook season, the 2024 Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Celebration would be the giant tournament of August. Usually, the primary birthday celebration evening happens on the second one Friday of the month: that implies it’ll be hung on August 9, 2024. (Now not in reality the second one part of August, however shut sufficient.) Dates are scattered in the beginning, however in reality pick out up in frequency throughout the final couple weeks of the month.
One giant trade is that the 2024 EPCOT Global Meals & Wine Pageant has been scaled again to “2019 standard.” After starting in July for the previous few years, it doesn’t get started till August 29, 2024. It’s imaginable {that a} handful of cubicles will unofficially open previous to the printed get started date (they’re already being put in), however we wouldn’t financial institution on it.
AUGUST REFURBISHMENTS & NEW ATTRACTIONS
For an concept of what’s going to be closed in August, take a look at the Walt Disney Global Refurbishment Agenda. Now not the entirety can be indexed on that till the final minute.
The most important trip that’s these days closed is Check Monitor, which is being reimagined. A reopening date has no longer but been introduced, but it surely’s not going to go back any time this yr. We’re anticipating it to reopen for Spring Damage 2025 on the earliest.
Along with that, Peter Pan’s Flight is down via overdue August for refurbishment. In a while after that trip reopens, Jungle Cruise will move down in overdue August. On a few sure notes, Nation Endure Musical Jamboree and Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster have each reopened after long downtime.
Either one of the latest primary sights at Walt Disney Global are in Magic Kingdom, with Tiana’s Bayou Journey now open these days final month! That is the reimagining of Splash Mountain, and tells the tale of “The Princess and the Frog” after the occasions of the film. As mentioned in Tiana’s Bayou Journey Journey Assessment: Failure, Incorrect or Implausible?, the enchantment is a blended bag.
Should you’re visiting in August 2024, there are two different stuff you will have to learn about Tiana’s Bayou Journey. The primary is that it makes use of a digital queue…for now. See How one can Journey Tiana’s Bayou Journey for the entirety you want to learn about its (loss of) standby line, Lightning Lane, and digital queue.
The large obstacle to ditching the digital queue and switching to standby is downtime and reliability problems. As mentioned in You May Have Issues Driving Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom, the reimagined trip is having troubles presently and incessantly has more than one hours of downtime according to day. It most definitely received’t drop the digital queue till it’s running extra constantly, with out widespread breakdowns. Our hope is that Tiana’s Bayou Journey ditches the digital queue and opens a standby line in August 2024, but it surely’s nonetheless unreliable nearly a month after formally opening, so who is aware of.
Then there’s TRON Lightcycle Run, which is the newest brand-new (no longer reimagined) primary enchantment at Walt Disney Global. See our Digital Queue Technique Information for TRON Lightcycle Run for main points, pointers & tips for luck, and extra. Sadly, you can’t sign up for each the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey and TRON Lightcycle Run on the similar time, so that you’ll wish to strategize with a purpose to enjoy each in the similar day.
Bouncing again to EPCOT, there’s a host of alternative new stuff there. This comprises Global Birthday celebration, CommuniCore Corridor, Moana’s Adventure of Water, and Luminous: Symphony of Us–all of which debuted inside the final yr. That’s nonetheless beautiful new within the grand scheme of items! There’s additionally Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, House 220 Eating place, Remy’s Ratatouille Journey, and a host of alternative stuff.
For an outline of what else is at the horizon, see What’s New & Subsequent at Walt Disney Global in 2024 & 2025.
AUGUST 2024 DISNEY WORLD CROWD CALENDAR
We don’t be offering a color-coded August 2024 crowd calendar to start out this as a result of that’s reductionist and doesn’t provide the complete image of Walt Disney Global attendance traits. Additionally, WDW crowd calendars are much less dependable because of how Disney manipulates attendance patterns, staffing, closures, and trip capability. Suffice to mention, it higher serves readers to provide an evidence in the case of what to anticipate crowd-wise this summer season at Walt Disney Global.
Since Disney doesn’t liberate respectable attendance numbers, crowd calendars use such things as college schedules, airport visitors statistics, lodge pricing & occupancy, and so forth., as proxies for crowds. For years, this way labored and made crowd calendars dependable. Walt Disney Global attendance adopted an identifiable development that tracked with the aforementioned proxies.
Sadly, wait occasions not mirror precise crowds on account of the aforementioned manipulation. We will be able to nonetheless forecast attendance, however no longer the ensuing wait occasions. That is like the adaptation between the real temperature and the “seems like” temperature, however with crowds. The latter are what maximum of you most probably care about (the “seems like” crowds), but it surely’s tougher to are expecting wait occasions by means of Walt Disney Global crowd calendars. Optimistically that is smart!
Necessarily, the distribution of summer season crowds at Walt Disney Global is sort of a Bell Curve. Which means that early June and mid-August are the most efficient occasions to head from a crowd calendar viewpoint throughout what’s historically regarded as summer season holiday season.
Even throughout the portion of August that’s summer season, crowd ranges aren’t as unhealthy as you may be expecting. That is in reality not anything new, however pent-up call for throughout a few years within the post-reopening generation masked it and skewed numbers for a few years. In the end, wait occasions information and ‘seems like’ congestion ranges within the final two years issues to a go back to the pre-closure pattern of summers being much less busy.
For additional perception into this, see Summer season (Nonetheless) Is NOT Top Crowds Season at Walt Disney Global. The secret’s that summer season isn’t top season, even at its easiest level. And August isn’t the easiest level, even at first of the month when maximum districts are out.
As increasingly college districts return into consultation, August crowd ranges will have to lower. This can be maximum noticeable starting August 12, 2024, which is when each Orange County Public Faculties and Osceola County Public Faculties get started their first day of categories.
Those districts have the most important affect on crowds at Walt Disney Global, and going again into consultation will lead to fast attendance drops. As different districts across the South, Midwest, and Northeast get started their instructional years, crowds will proceed losing for the rest of the month.
From a crowd calendar viewpoint, you’ll mainly break up the month in part in the case of overarching attendance patterns. There are the dates prior to August 12, 2024 that can be rather under reasonable. Our expectation is crowd ranges within the 3/10 to five/10 vary maximum weekdays via August 9, 2024. It’s imaginable that there would be the occasional decrease ranges or upper ranges, as we’ve noticed a number of 1/10 and a couple of/10 days this summer season, however upper is not going.
For the weekends in August 2024, be expecting 1/10 to two/10 crowd ranges. Should you’re questioning why Saturday and Sunday attendance forecasts are decrease, see the ‘Wonky Weekends at Walt Disney Global’ phase of our not too long ago up to date Perfect & Worst Days to Do All Parks at Walt Disney Global for a dialogue of this dynamic.
Be expecting those traits to proceed into the second one part of August 2024, which will have to as soon as once more be the bona-fide low season, with crowd ranges steadily within the 1/10 to two/10 vary. There might be some dates which might be upper, however even 3/10 or 4/10 isn’t too unhealthy. Maximum dates after August 13, 2024 are among the finest occasions to talk over with Walt Disney Global. Ultimate yr, that week was once probably the most slowest of the yr; the final week of August into early September was once, as neatly (Exertions Day isn’t a hectic vacation for Walt Disney Global).
That’s par for the path, as faculties get started going again into consultation mid-month, and less households are susceptible to take summer season holidays within the couple of weeks heading again into college. The result’s usually that crowds proceed to taper off all over August prior to bottoming out in early to mid-September. Be expecting the similar dynamic in overdue summer season and early fall. It’ll be attention-grabbing to peer simply how low crowds can move within the low season!
For Magic Kingdom, there’s an added wrinkle to the gang calendar: Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Celebration (MNSSHP). On nights this tournament is held, the park closes to common price tag holders at 6 pm. As a result, Magic Kingdom is much less busy throughout the day time hours on dates when MNSSHP is held, and extra busy on days the Halloween tournament isn’t happening.
This may appear counter-intuitive, but it surely’s since the birthday celebration is separately-ticketed. Usually, the most important affect is felt nearer to Halloween, so the phenomenon isn’t unhealthy in any respect in August, however you will have to nonetheless imagine warding off Magic Kingdom on Saturdays. That’s all the time excellent recommendation, anyway.
In previous years, Saturdays are the worst of at the present time of the week throughout Celebration Season–but it surely continues to be noticed whether or not that’s the case in 2024 given how sluggish Saturdays had been this yr. Generally we keep away from Saturdays in Magic Kingdom throughout Celebration Season. Till it begins, we aren’t assured that’ll be the case this yr, regardless that.
Generally, we’d strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom throughout the day on Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Celebration nights, after which bouncing to any other park at round 4 pm. Animal Kingdom will all the time be your best choice for lower-crowd evenings throughout the autumn. Disney’s Hollywood Studios may also be any other nice possibility.
In the end, concrete recommendation for the 2024 Celebration Season received’t be imaginable till it begins and is a couple of weekends previous. After we’ve had time to talk over with and follow wait occasions, we’ll replace our steerage accordingly…however that received’t be till overdue August or early September 2024. (For now, warding off Magic Kingdom on Saturday and doing DHS on that day is most definitely the most secure ‘heart floor’ way.)
AUGUST PRICING & DISCOUNTS
In the case of promotions, there are possibly to be room-only reductions for Annual Passholders, Florida citizens, and most people in August 2024. See All Present Reductions at Walt Disney Global for the more than a few hotel offers.
Regardless, you received’t must pay complete value, as a result of August is all the time probably the most highest months for particular gives at Walt Disney Global, with decrease rack charges coupled with proportion financial savings of as much as 35% off in a typical yr.
So far as pricing is going, early to mid-August is regarded as “common” season and overdue August is “price” season for one-day park tickets (learn our Pointers for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets put up for price tag suggestions to keep away from having to care for seasonal pricing). So far as room charges move, August is without doubt one of the decrease seasons.
General, early August is so much like July–arguably worse because of the elements. Generally, that still comes with summer season crowds as the varsity ruin season winds down and fogeys with college age kids scramble for last-minute holidays prior to college is going again into consultation. Summer season 2024 might be other (once more), with decrease crowd ranges around the board that are meant to make early August extra relaxing. (The elements will nearly definitely nonetheless be unhealthy, regardless that!)
As all the time, the second one part of August can be so much like September. Crowd-wise, it’s an objectively nice time to talk over with as probably the most final true low season occasions at Walt Disney Global. If the warmth, humidity, and storms don’t hassle you, overdue August is probably a very good possibility. Crowd ranges of two/10 or under are relatively commonplace, and that may be even higher in August 2024 if the summer season slowdown hurries up into the early fall low season!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
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