Walt Disney Global has added extra hours to the calendar via early December 2025 at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios & Animal Kingdom, and prolonged hours in October. This publish covers the adjustments plus zig after they zag technique for Magic Kingdom all through the Halloween and Christmas seasons.
We’ll get started with the most recent unlock of latest working schedules. All 4 theme parks have had hours for some other week added to DisneyWorld.com’s park hours, and the present calendar now runs via December 5, 2025. Listed below are the hours for the newly-added dates all through the vacation season, from November 28, 2025 and past:
- Magic Kingdom: 9 am to ten pm*
- EPCOT: 9 am to 9:30 pm
- Hollywood Studios: 9 am to 9 pm*
- Animal Kingdom: 8 am to six pm
- Storm Lagoon: 10 am to five pm
- Snowstorm Seashore: Closed
- Disney Springs: 10 am to 11 pm (11:30 pm on Fridays & Saturdays)
As a reminder, Walt Disney Global’s customary follow is to unlock boilerplate or placeholder hours sooner than extending the ones in accordance with attendance and lodge occupancy projections. This has been commonplace follow for years, and can proceed for the rest of this 12 months and almost definitely in 2026, 2027, and many others–till the upward thrust of the machines.
One exception to the park hours above is that Magic Kingdom closes on a number of nights every week at 6 pm to day visitors for Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Birthday party over the process the following 3 months. The ones separately-ticketed occasions start at 7 pm and runs till nighttime, and happen more than one nights every week.
Very similar to Magic Kingdom on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights, Hollywood Studios closes at 7 pm on evenings when the Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Birthday party is held. That arduous price tag tournament happens with some distance much less frequency than Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Birthday party.
The large explanation why this time table alternate is notable is that Walt Disney Global has printed that EPCOT hours can be prolonged for the 2025 EPCOT Global Competition of the Vacations.
Beginning on November twenty eighth, EPCOT can be open till 9:30 p.m. quite than its present final time of 9 p.m. The park will proceed to open at 9 a.m., with Early Access starting sooner than that at 8:30 a.m. EPCOT will even proceed webhosting Prolonged Night Hours on (maximum) Monday nights, from 9:30 to 11:30 pm.
Our hope is that EPCOT will get even later final instances all through the center of the Christmas season. That is normally the busiest time of the 12 months because of Candlelight Processional and Competition of the Vacations, along side nicer climate that pulls out locals. I nonetheless don’t slightly perceive why EPCOT doesn’t shut later. For sure the meals & beverage gross sales on my own would justify some other half-hour?!
Each and every unmarried seek advice from we made to EPCOT remaining 12 months after Black Friday, the park used to be completely slammed. This wasn’t at all times mirrored in wait instances on the entrance of the park, which does hole out apart from Residing with the Land – Glimmering Greenhouses, however Global Show off used to be packed. EPCOT may simply do 10 pm final instances and recoup the hard work and operational bills a number of instances over.
Talking of park final instances, Magic Kingdom is scheduled to near at 6 pm on October 21, 2025 for a park buyout all through a colossal convention, the Gartner IT Symposium. This normally occurs at EPCOT, however is shifting to Magic Kingdom this 12 months. (I ponder how a lot more that set Gartner again?!)
This one is simple to pass over as you’re seeking to dodge Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party dates that week, which additionally happen all through this similar week on October 19, 23, 24, 26. Suffice to mention, pack your endurance should you’re visiting Magic Kingdom on October 20, 22, or 25. A number of crowds consolidated into the ones dates to peer Starlight and Thankfully Ever After!
In truth, the larger factor may well be the Gartner IT Symposium and go back of conference ‘season’ as an entire. Whilst attendees themselves aren’t spending all day within the parks, they’ll find time for evenings at EPCOT and in other places. No longer best that, however many spouses and kids tag alongside and seek advice from the parks whilst the conventioneers sit down in Crescent Lake convention rooms. Conference ‘season’ is likely one of the giant the explanation why October stopped being the low season over a decade in the past!
At the subjects of transferring schedules and Magic Kingdom, right here’s the present midnight leisure time table for now via November 1, 2025:
- Starlight Parade: 8 pm
- Thankfully Ever After: 9 pm
- Starlight Parade: 10 pm
- Park Ultimate: 10 pm
After November 1st, there aren’t any instances posted for parades. If you happen to have a look at the authentic Starlight web page, it says “no efficiency these days.” The similar is the case for Competition of Fable. This has took place sooner than, so sooner than you freak out, it’s now not correct. There’s no explanation why to consider both parade, let on my own either one of them, will pause for November and December.
Apparently, Thankfully Ever After continues to have 9 pm showtimes during November 2025. This has additionally took place sooner than! For no matter explanation why, Walt Disney Global assists in keeping populating Thankfully Ever After showtimes even if there’s no time table for the parades. I haven’t the slightest clue as to why, particularly when there have been simply visitor considerations and proceedings about this remaining month. Making issues worse, this 9 pm showtime for Thankfully Ever After could also be almost definitely misguided.
Sunlight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025. This normally triggers showtime adjustments for the Magic Kingdom fireworks. Typically as in each unmarried 12 months. Closing 12 months, it intended Thankfully Ever After shifting ahead to eight:30 pm (this in fact took place in past due October, as sundown instances had already moved ahead). One week later, Thankfully 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 Side road Electric Parade and eight pm for Needs. I might be expecting equivalent showtimes for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away and Thankfully Ever After during November and December 2025.
Clearly, not anything is bureaucratic but, however there’s excellent 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 Walt Disney Global’s most popular time table, because it permits households with children who can’t keep out past due the danger to peer midnight leisure, and in addition is helping filter the park previous. The one explanation why that they had later showtimes over the summer time used to be as a result of sundown dictated it, and there’s a vital hour hole between the showtimes.
Along with those newly added hours, Walt Disney Global has additionally prolonged park hours during the primary few weeks of October 2025.
That is going to be taking place increasingly. We’re getting into the house stretch of the 12 months when crowds can spike because of lengthy weekends, faculty breaks, vacations and different particular occasions. Consequently, you’ll be expecting much more extensions–on a weekly foundation–from Walt Disney Global going ahead.
Anyway, on with the primary waves of extensions for Fall 2025. As of at this time, Walt Disney Global has best made centered park hours extensions via October 18, 2025. Right here’s a have a look at the ones:
Magic Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- October 3, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 4, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 5, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 6, 2025: 9 am to 11pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 7, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 8, 2025: 9 am to 11pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 9, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 10, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 11, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 12, 2025: 9 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 13, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 14, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 15, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 16, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 17, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 18, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
Once more, October 18th is the remaining date to be prolonged up to now; any date beginning Oct. 19 is solely boilerplate hours at this level. Additional extensions will observe, so don’t be concerned should you’re touring in the second one part of October and past. That is the way it at all times works.
The cause of those extensions is Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party.
As we’ve mentioned numerous instances, Birthday party Season working hours purpose chaos with crowds, pushing attendance a lot upper at the dates it’s now not happening and decrease at the dates it is going on. On tournament nights, Magic Kingdom closes to day visitors at 6 pm. Additionally it is opens at 8 am on busier days, however there were exceptions to that over the process the remaining month.
The excellent news is that Magic Kingdom is opening at 8 am on maximum dates beginning October 3, 2025. We think this pattern to proceed in the second one part of October, even if there it will be fewer days with 8 am openings till Veterans Day/Jersey Week in November, as Fall Breaks finally end up and attendance in most cases decreases all through that time-frame. See our record of the Best possible & Worst Weeks to Discuss with Walt Disney Global in 2025, 2026 & 2027 for a rundown of the great and unhealthy dates subsequent month and past.
Those 8 am rope drops imply that Early Access begins at 7:30 am, which is massive. Glance no additional than our new box checking out: Magic Kingdom’s Additional Early Access is a Will have to-Do for Low Waits at Disney Global’s Greatest Rides!
That covers how I looped TRON Lightcycle Run (x3), and did Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach, Peter Pan’s Flight, and Tiana’s Bayou Journey as walk-ons. Don’t be expecting to duplicate the ones actual effects on busier October via December dates, however the animating concept and technique is similar.
Don’t sleep in this! The strategic benefit presented is immense, particularly on days that can be busier round Fall Spoil. Although you’ll’t knock out up to I did (and you most likely received’t have the ability to), the sunlight hours crowds that hit round 10 am on the ones dates can be some distance, some distance worse than what I encountered. Those 8 am rope drops and seven:30 am are you secret weapon to knocking out up to imaginable with out paying additional for Lightning Lanes!
Thus far about emerging crowds, you’ll be expecting to peer party-shortened days at Magic Kingdom have crowd ranges of two/10 as an alternative of one/10. This may increasingly occur as a result of crowd ranges as an entire are expanding–they’ll be upper around the board for fall spoil, that means on each get together and non-party days. 2nd, get together dates are changing into extra common, making them tougher to steer clear of. That suggests extra visitors will haven’t any selection however to do Magic Kingdom on get together days.
The upside, if you wish to name it that, is that much more folks will try to do Magic Kingdom on the ones uncommon non-party days, particularly Saturdays. Which means the space in wait instances between get together and non-party days will in fact develop. Suffice to mention, we strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom all through the day on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights.
That is one thing we’ve coated at duration, over and over. See Best possible & Worst Days to Do Magic Kingdom in 2025 for a rundown of when crowds can be particularly excellent or unhealthy, together with a handful of ‘crimson flag’ dates to steer clear of in any respect prices this month via December.
Animal Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- October 3, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 4, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 5, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 10, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 11, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 12, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 13, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 17, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 18, 2025: 8 am to eight pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
Relating to Animal Kingdom, we prefer taking the additional hours assuming you’re going to be there all day. Or even supposing you’re doing a noon spoil however will go back to the similar park. Extra time is healthier. Then again, should you plan on leaving early, the most efficient follow is keeping off DAK when the final is later. There’s a explanation why those dates get prolonged hours and others don’t, and it’s as a result of WDW’s inner attendance projections are upper.
With all of that mentioned, you actually don’t want that a lot time at Animal Kingdom. If you happen to arrive for Early Access and even common rope drop, you’ll simply run the desk on the entire rides sooner than lunch. That leaves level presentations and animal shows for the afternoon, which nonetheless received’t require you keep after 6 pm, until you intend on doing like a dozen countdowns to extinction on DINOSAUR. See Animal Kingdom Park Opening & Early Access Journey Technique (or, “How I Did Each and every Journey at DAK Prior to 10:30am.”)
In the long run, it’ll be attention-grabbing to peer how unhealthy crowds finally end up being in October 2025, and what occurs with park hours extensions for the vacation season that begins in early November 2025. Our hope is that Walt Disney Global will get again to later final instances for the Christmas season. In a great international, 11 pm closings at Magic Kingdom will be the norm on non-party nights, with nighttime closings happening once or more every week. If I recall accurately, there have been best 2-3 nighttime closings remaining 12 months between Veterans Day and December twenty ninth.
As for subsequent month, we’re happy to have the extensions. It might be great to have some other half-hour within the morning or night at DHS, and perhaps even a couple of nighttime closings at Magic Kingdom (the times wedged between 3-4 MNSSHPs can be brutal, particularly with that Gartner IP tournament additionally within the combine), however all in all, it’s now not too unhealthy. Even supposing attendance goes to extend–and almost definitely via so much–Halloween and Christmas are our favourite instances of the 12 months within the parks and on the accommodations!
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Find out about lodges on our Walt Disney Global Lodges Evaluations web page. For the place to consume, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Evaluations. To economize on tickets or resolve which kind to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets publish. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys publish takes a novel have a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, the most efficient position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Commute Making plans Information for the whole thing you want to understand!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you call to mind Walt Disney Global’s working hours extensions for October 2025? Assume this time table is affordable? Do you suppose Magic Kingdom will have to be open previous and/or later? What has been your revel in with crowds and wait instances? Do you compromise or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will be able to permit you to resolution? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney Global has added extra hours to the calendar via early December 2025 at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios & Animal Kingdom, and prolonged hours in October. This publish covers the adjustments plus zig after they zag technique for Magic Kingdom all through the Halloween and Christmas seasons.
We’ll get started with the most recent unlock of latest working schedules. All 4 theme parks have had hours for some other week added to DisneyWorld.com’s park hours, and the present calendar now runs via December 5, 2025. Listed below are the hours for the newly-added dates all through the vacation season, from November 28, 2025 and past:
- Magic Kingdom: 9 am to ten pm*
- EPCOT: 9 am to 9:30 pm
- Hollywood Studios: 9 am to 9 pm*
- Animal Kingdom: 8 am to six pm
- Storm Lagoon: 10 am to five pm
- Snowstorm Seashore: Closed
- Disney Springs: 10 am to 11 pm (11:30 pm on Fridays & Saturdays)
As a reminder, Walt Disney Global’s customary follow is to unlock boilerplate or placeholder hours sooner than extending the ones in accordance with attendance and lodge occupancy projections. This has been commonplace follow for years, and can proceed for the rest of this 12 months and almost definitely in 2026, 2027, and many others–till the upward thrust of the machines.
One exception to the park hours above is that Magic Kingdom closes on a number of nights every week at 6 pm to day visitors for Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Birthday party over the process the following 3 months. The ones separately-ticketed occasions start at 7 pm and runs till nighttime, and happen more than one nights every week.
Very similar to Magic Kingdom on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights, Hollywood Studios closes at 7 pm on evenings when the Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Birthday party is held. That arduous price tag tournament happens with some distance much less frequency than Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Birthday party.
The large explanation why this time table alternate is notable is that Walt Disney Global has printed that EPCOT hours can be prolonged for the 2025 EPCOT Global Competition of the Vacations.
Beginning on November twenty eighth, EPCOT can be open till 9:30 p.m. quite than its present final time of 9 p.m. The park will proceed to open at 9 a.m., with Early Access starting sooner than that at 8:30 a.m. EPCOT will even proceed webhosting Prolonged Night Hours on (maximum) Monday nights, from 9:30 to 11:30 pm.
Our hope is that EPCOT will get even later final instances all through the center of the Christmas season. That is normally the busiest time of the 12 months because of Candlelight Processional and Competition of the Vacations, along side nicer climate that pulls out locals. I nonetheless don’t slightly perceive why EPCOT doesn’t shut later. For sure the meals & beverage gross sales on my own would justify some other half-hour?!
Each and every unmarried seek advice from we made to EPCOT remaining 12 months after Black Friday, the park used to be completely slammed. This wasn’t at all times mirrored in wait instances on the entrance of the park, which does hole out apart from Residing with the Land – Glimmering Greenhouses, however Global Show off used to be packed. EPCOT may simply do 10 pm final instances and recoup the hard work and operational bills a number of instances over.
Talking of park final instances, Magic Kingdom is scheduled to near at 6 pm on October 21, 2025 for a park buyout all through a colossal convention, the Gartner IT Symposium. This normally occurs at EPCOT, however is shifting to Magic Kingdom this 12 months. (I ponder how a lot more that set Gartner again?!)
This one is simple to pass over as you’re seeking to dodge Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party dates that week, which additionally happen all through this similar week on October 19, 23, 24, 26. Suffice to mention, pack your endurance should you’re visiting Magic Kingdom on October 20, 22, or 25. A number of crowds consolidated into the ones dates to peer Starlight and Thankfully Ever After!
In truth, the larger factor may well be the Gartner IT Symposium and go back of conference ‘season’ as an entire. Whilst attendees themselves aren’t spending all day within the parks, they’ll find time for evenings at EPCOT and in other places. No longer best that, however many spouses and kids tag alongside and seek advice from the parks whilst the conventioneers sit down in Crescent Lake convention rooms. Conference ‘season’ is likely one of the giant the explanation why October stopped being the low season over a decade in the past!
At the subjects of transferring schedules and Magic Kingdom, right here’s the present midnight leisure time table for now via November 1, 2025:
- Starlight Parade: 8 pm
- Thankfully Ever After: 9 pm
- Starlight Parade: 10 pm
- Park Ultimate: 10 pm
After November 1st, there aren’t any instances posted for parades. If you happen to have a look at the authentic Starlight web page, it says “no efficiency these days.” The similar is the case for Competition of Fable. This has took place sooner than, so sooner than you freak out, it’s now not correct. There’s no explanation why to consider both parade, let on my own either one of them, will pause for November and December.
Apparently, Thankfully Ever After continues to have 9 pm showtimes during November 2025. This has additionally took place sooner than! For no matter explanation why, Walt Disney Global assists in keeping populating Thankfully Ever After showtimes even if there’s no time table for the parades. I haven’t the slightest clue as to why, particularly when there have been simply visitor considerations and proceedings about this remaining month. Making issues worse, this 9 pm showtime for Thankfully Ever After could also be almost definitely misguided.
Sunlight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025. This normally triggers showtime adjustments for the Magic Kingdom fireworks. Typically as in each unmarried 12 months. Closing 12 months, it intended Thankfully Ever After shifting ahead to eight:30 pm (this in fact took place in past due October, as sundown instances had already moved ahead). One week later, Thankfully 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 Side road Electric Parade and eight pm for Needs. I might be expecting equivalent showtimes for Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away and Thankfully Ever After during November and December 2025.
Clearly, not anything is bureaucratic but, however there’s excellent 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 Walt Disney Global’s most popular time table, because it permits households with children who can’t keep out past due the danger to peer midnight leisure, and in addition is helping filter the park previous. The one explanation why that they had later showtimes over the summer time used to be as a result of sundown dictated it, and there’s a vital hour hole between the showtimes.
Along with those newly added hours, Walt Disney Global has additionally prolonged park hours during the primary few weeks of October 2025.
That is going to be taking place increasingly. We’re getting into the house stretch of the 12 months when crowds can spike because of lengthy weekends, faculty breaks, vacations and different particular occasions. Consequently, you’ll be expecting much more extensions–on a weekly foundation–from Walt Disney Global going ahead.
Anyway, on with the primary waves of extensions for Fall 2025. As of at this time, Walt Disney Global has best made centered park hours extensions via October 18, 2025. Right here’s a have a look at the ones:
Magic Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- October 3, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 4, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 5, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 6, 2025: 9 am to 11pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 7, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 8, 2025: 9 am to 11pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 9, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 10, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 11, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 12, 2025: 9 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 13, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 14, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 15, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
- October 16, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 17, 2025: 8 am to six pm (up to now 9 am to six pm)
- October 18, 2025: 8 am to 11 pm (up to now 9 am to ten pm)
Once more, October 18th is the remaining date to be prolonged up to now; any date beginning Oct. 19 is solely boilerplate hours at this level. Additional extensions will observe, so don’t be concerned should you’re touring in the second one part of October and past. That is the way it at all times works.
The cause of those extensions is Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday party.
As we’ve mentioned numerous instances, Birthday party Season working hours purpose chaos with crowds, pushing attendance a lot upper at the dates it’s now not happening and decrease at the dates it is going on. On tournament nights, Magic Kingdom closes to day visitors at 6 pm. Additionally it is opens at 8 am on busier days, however there were exceptions to that over the process the remaining month.
The excellent news is that Magic Kingdom is opening at 8 am on maximum dates beginning October 3, 2025. We think this pattern to proceed in the second one part of October, even if there it will be fewer days with 8 am openings till Veterans Day/Jersey Week in November, as Fall Breaks finally end up and attendance in most cases decreases all through that time-frame. See our record of the Best possible & Worst Weeks to Discuss with Walt Disney Global in 2025, 2026 & 2027 for a rundown of the great and unhealthy dates subsequent month and past.
Those 8 am rope drops imply that Early Access begins at 7:30 am, which is massive. Glance no additional than our new box checking out: Magic Kingdom’s Additional Early Access is a Will have to-Do for Low Waits at Disney Global’s Greatest Rides!
That covers how I looped TRON Lightcycle Run (x3), and did Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach, Peter Pan’s Flight, and Tiana’s Bayou Journey as walk-ons. Don’t be expecting to duplicate the ones actual effects on busier October via December dates, however the animating concept and technique is similar.
Don’t sleep in this! The strategic benefit presented is immense, particularly on days that can be busier round Fall Spoil. Although you’ll’t knock out up to I did (and you most likely received’t have the ability to), the sunlight hours crowds that hit round 10 am on the ones dates can be some distance, some distance worse than what I encountered. Those 8 am rope drops and seven:30 am are you secret weapon to knocking out up to imaginable with out paying additional for Lightning Lanes!
Thus far about emerging crowds, you’ll be expecting to peer party-shortened days at Magic Kingdom have crowd ranges of two/10 as an alternative of one/10. This may increasingly occur as a result of crowd ranges as an entire are expanding–they’ll be upper around the board for fall spoil, that means on each get together and non-party days. 2nd, get together dates are changing into extra common, making them tougher to steer clear of. That suggests extra visitors will haven’t any selection however to do Magic Kingdom on get together days.
The upside, if you wish to name it that, is that much more folks will try to do Magic Kingdom on the ones uncommon non-party days, particularly Saturdays. Which means the space in wait instances between get together and non-party days will in fact develop. Suffice to mention, we strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom all through the day on MNSSHP or MVMCP nights.
That is one thing we’ve coated at duration, over and over. See Best possible & Worst Days to Do Magic Kingdom in 2025 for a rundown of when crowds can be particularly excellent or unhealthy, together with a handful of ‘crimson flag’ dates to steer clear of in any respect prices this month via December.
Animal Kingdom Park Hours Extensions
- October 3, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 4, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 5, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 10, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 11, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 12, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 13, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 17, 2025: 8 am to 7 pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
- October 18, 2025: 8 am to eight pm (up to now 8 am to six pm)
Relating to Animal Kingdom, we prefer taking the additional hours assuming you’re going to be there all day. Or even supposing you’re doing a noon spoil however will go back to the similar park. Extra time is healthier. Then again, should you plan on leaving early, the most efficient follow is keeping off DAK when the final is later. There’s a explanation why those dates get prolonged hours and others don’t, and it’s as a result of WDW’s inner attendance projections are upper.
With all of that mentioned, you actually don’t want that a lot time at Animal Kingdom. If you happen to arrive for Early Access and even common rope drop, you’ll simply run the desk on the entire rides sooner than lunch. That leaves level presentations and animal shows for the afternoon, which nonetheless received’t require you keep after 6 pm, until you intend on doing like a dozen countdowns to extinction on DINOSAUR. See Animal Kingdom Park Opening & Early Access Journey Technique (or, “How I Did Each and every Journey at DAK Prior to 10:30am.”)
In the long run, it’ll be attention-grabbing to peer how unhealthy crowds finally end up being in October 2025, and what occurs with park hours extensions for the vacation season that begins in early November 2025. Our hope is that Walt Disney Global will get again to later final instances for the Christmas season. In a great international, 11 pm closings at Magic Kingdom will be the norm on non-party nights, with nighttime closings happening once or more every week. If I recall accurately, there have been best 2-3 nighttime closings remaining 12 months between Veterans Day and December twenty ninth.
As for subsequent month, we’re happy to have the extensions. It might be great to have some other half-hour within the morning or night at DHS, and perhaps even a couple of nighttime closings at Magic Kingdom (the times wedged between 3-4 MNSSHPs can be brutal, particularly with that Gartner IP tournament additionally within the combine), however all in all, it’s now not too unhealthy. Even supposing attendance goes to extend–and almost definitely via so much–Halloween and Christmas are our favourite instances of the 12 months within the parks and on the accommodations!
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Find out about lodges on our Walt Disney Global Lodges Evaluations web page. For the place to consume, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Evaluations. To economize on tickets or resolve which kind to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets publish. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys publish takes a novel have a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, the most efficient position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Commute Making plans Information for the whole thing you want to understand!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you call to mind Walt Disney Global’s working hours extensions for October 2025? Assume this time table is affordable? Do you suppose Magic Kingdom will have to be open previous and/or later? What has been your revel in with crowds and wait instances? Do you compromise or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will be able to permit you to resolution? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas under within the feedback!
