Walt Disney Global has printed showtimes for Starlight: Dream the Night time Away at Magic Kingdom for the impending Christmas season after a long lengthen in including them to the Magic Kingdom calendar. This stocks dates & main points, plus why we’re shocked via those showtimes, and predictions of efficiency instances in keeping with previous precedent and castle-area congestion.
Let’s get started with the present midnight leisure time table for now via November 1, 2025:
- Starlight Parade: 8 pm
- Fortunately Ever After: 9 pm
- Starlight Parade: 10 pm
- Park Remaining: 10 pm
This has been the time table for a short time. The showtimes began as 9/10/11 pm in the summertime, then shifted ahead half-hour, after which some other half-hour to the present time table.
Walt Disney Global has had a large number of “Starlight Agenda Shenanigans” and we’ve been documenting them right here on DTB since summer season. This has principally consisted of Walt Disney Global posting showtimes, the ones showtimes being fallacious, us declaring that they had been more than likely fallacious, the showtimes being got rid of, [lengthy delay], new right kind showtimes being posted. Permutations of that experience befell greater than as soon as since Starlight began this summer season.
The explanation we’ve been in a position to as it should be are expecting Starlight showtimes used to be that this isn’t Walt Disney Global’s first rodeo with an evening parade. It would really feel adore it is because it’s been see you later, however one used to be proven a decade in the past. It’s true! All our “predictions” were is having a look up the time table from 2015.
What we’ve spotted is that Walt Disney Global is just about doing the similar factor. They preserve performing like they’re going to change issues up…handiest to tug from the playbook from the ultimate time Primary Boulevard Electric Parade ran. Which is the sensible factor to do! No want to reinvent the wheel. There used to be a reason why for this means a decade in the past.
It used to be on that foundation that we predicted the next showtimes beginning November 2, 2025:
- Starlight Parade: 7 pm
- Fortunately Ever After: 8 pm
- Starlight Parade: 9 pm
- Park Remaining: 10 pm
Smartly, both our run of right kind predictions is coming to an finish, or Walt Disney Global has (as soon as once more) posted an fallacious time table. Right here’s what they have got at the legit calendar beginning November 2, 2025:
- Starlight Parade: 8 pm
- Fortunately Ever After: 9 pm
- Starlight Parade: 10 pm
- Park Remaining: 10 pm
That is the time table for nights via a minimum of November 22, 2025 when Magic Kingdom does now not shut early for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration.
As you’ll see, that’s the very same time table as the present one. It’s additionally in step with the Fortunately Ever After showtimes which have been posted for some time now. One thing feels other this time. We’re guessing this showtime time table is right kind.
Our assumption used to be that Walt Disney Global had waited see you later to submit Starlight hours for November 2d and past as a result of Sunlight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025. That didn’t appear coincidental!
Someone who’s accustomed to the Farmers’ Almanac or no matter is aware of that sundown instances trade, transferring previous within the fall and iciness. This typically triggers showtime adjustments for the Magic Kingdom fireworks. Normally as in each unmarried yr. Final yr, it intended Fortunately Ever After transferring ahead to eight:30 pm (this if truth be told came about in overdue October, as sundown instances had already moved ahead). One week later, Fortunately Ever After moved ahead to eight pm and stayed in that point slot till DST began once more in March.
If we went again in time to November 3, 2015, we’d see showtimes of seven pm and 9 pm for Primary Boulevard Electric Parade and eight pm for Needs. I used to be certain that Walt Disney Global would do the similar factor this yr with Starlight.
There’s just right reason that used to be the leisure cadence a decade in the past, and it makes much more sense in 2025 to revert to that time table.
That is (used to be?) Walt Disney Global’s most popular time table, because it lets in households with children who can’t keep out overdue the danger to peer midnight leisure, and likewise is helping filter the park previous. The one reason why that they had later showtimes over the summer season used to be as a result of sundown dictated it.
Similarly as necessary, it’s my figuring out that the time table can’t be condensed to any extent further, as 60 mins is concerning the minimal imaginable buffer between the parade and fireworks showtimes. (I’ve heard this from a number of leisure Solid Participants, and it’s been corroborated via delays within the get started of 1 showtime having a ripple impact on next performances.)
If anything else, I wouldn’t were shocked if Magic Kingdom higher the space to 90 mins when having the sooner sundown time to make use of to its merit.
One thing like 7 pm, 8:30 pm, and 10 pm. Or perhaps 7, 8, and 9:30 pm. The distance that issues maximum is between Fortunately Ever After and the second one Starlight, a minimum of from a congestion and crowd go with the flow viewpoint.
That is one thing we’ve documented just lately in Keeping off Magic Kingdom’s Night Exodus, as we’ve heard a couple of reviews of chaotic prerequisites within the Central Plaza between Fortunately Ever After and the second one Starlight.
The most productive cause of Walt Disney Global now not transferring showtimes previous may well be that an 8 pm showtime for Fortunately Ever After would possibly induce much more call for for the fireworks, in flip exacerbating the exodus.
That may be an excellent clarification! If this had been a aware choice on that foundation, it could make absolute best sense. I’d nonetheless marvel why they didn’t building up the unfold between showtimes as additional mitigation, even though.
Walt Disney Global has already showed that Starlight will handiest be offered on non-party nights all the way through Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration dates. Because of this, as an example, Starlight might not be carried out in any respect on December 18-19, and so forth.
That is 100% standard and that won’t trade. The results of this is extra visitors cramming into Magic Kingdom on nights when Starlight and Fortunately Ever After are proven, reminiscent of November 12 or December 10, 2025.
The ones are two of a number of ‘purple flag’ dates to steer clear of which might be coated in our record of the Best possible & Worst Dates to Do Magic Kingdom in 2025. In the event you do discuss with on the ones or different purple flag dates, we’d extremely counsel averting the Central Plaza in entrance of Cinderella Citadel–particularly when you’ve got babies, aged or disabled adults on your get together.
On a good notice, there are two nightly showtimes of Starlight via a minimum of November 22, 2025. That is what the time table must be all the way through Celebration Season–and all the way through everything of 2026, for that subject–however Walt Disney Global can hardly ever face up to a just right ole shaped cost-cut, so it’s great to have affirmation.
Another way, it’ll be attention-grabbing to peer whether or not the Starlight Night time Parade and Fortunately Ever After showtimes trade deeper into November or December. Whilst I will doubtlessly see the knowledge of a later fireworks time, I query whether or not that call used to be made purposefully within the first position (or if they only prolonged the present time table cadence). Additionally, if the purpose is to mitigate crowding and congestion, the usage of the longer runway equipped via the sooner sundown for a 90 minute hole between performances makes extra sense. We’ll stay you posted!
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What do you take into accounts Walt Disney Global including showtimes for Starlight in November 2025? Shocked that it’s now not a 7/8/9 or 7/8:30/10 time table? Why do you suppose WDW caught with the established order for showtimes? Have you ever skilled the night exodus at Magic Kingdom this month (October 2025)? Assume the worst continues to be to return in November and December? Agree or disagree with our review? Any questions we will be able to let you solution? Listening to your comments–even whilst you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas underneath within the feedback!
