This information to October 2024 at Walt Disney Global gives a loose crowd calendar protecting when to discuss with & steer clear of, best possible climate, new appeal openings & closures, Halloween, Epcot’s Meals & Wine Competition, and extra. We additionally duvet what’s going down at Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. (Up to date September 25, 2024.)
October is when fall crowds get started accelerating because of it being the primary month of Halloween, college fall breaks, plus conventions and different team occasions. This makes it a stark distinction to September. Regardless of this, it’s nonetheless a great time to discuss with because of the elements, festivities, and new points of interest, leisure, and middle of the night spectaculars all debuting.
Within the not-too-distant previous, October was once a “best possible stored secret” when it got here to the most productive months to discuss with Walt Disney Global. Temperate climate, low crowds, worth season pricing, and seasonal occasions all made it a great time to discuss with. This ceased to be the case a couple of decade in the past, as October changed into a favourite month to discuss with for lots of WDW fanatics.
Suffice to mention, October crowds have ballooned at Walt Disney Global in recent times. That is because of a mix of the name of the game getting out, other people suspending summer time holidays for higher pricing, extra faculties having longer fall breaks, Walt Disney Global doing extra conference industry, and different elements. Now, October is considered one of Walt Disney Global’s busier months.
We advise using our 1-Day Disney Park Itineraries & Traveling Plans to take advantage of your October revel in at Walt Disney Global. Those will mean you can steer clear of the crowds, however extra importantly, prevent time ready in line (since crowds and wait instances aren’t the similar).
October Climate at WDW
Climate at Walt Disney Global continues to enhance in October, with temperatures cooling even farther from September, humidity shedding, and the tail finish of typhoon and hurricane season concluding. Afternoon showers and torrential downpours are nonetheless imaginable, as is in point of fact sizzling and in point of fact cool climate, so have in mind to pack for a variety of climate stipulations.
You’ll be able to view day-by-day temperature and climate forecasts plus historic averages for Walt Disney Global climate in October right here. As you’ll see, reasonable highs are nonetheless within the 80s on a daily basis of the month, so it’s no longer that a lot cooler…even supposing the ones 60 stage lows could make a large distinction.
October Particular Occasions
Walt Disney Global’s anniversary is on October 1; Magic Kingdom opened in this date in 1971. Ditto EPCOT, except for on October 1, 1982. In earlier years, each have celebrated milestone anniversaries or celebrations beginning in this date. That’s no longer the case in 2024–October 1 is an attractive inconsequential date the following couple of years.
Additionally throughout October is the center of the 2024 Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration ‘season’ at Magic Kingdom. This tough price ticket tournament has a ton of dates in October 2024, with Magic Kingdom last early for MNSSHP roughly 3-4 nights every week. As mentioned beneath, this in point of fact throws a monkey wrench into attendance dynamics.
Magic Kingdom opens and closes previous on Halloween social gathering days. As mentioned beneath, this reasons curler coaster crowd stipulations within the park that would possibly appear counterintuitive. One of the most best possible issues you’ll do when making plans is operating round the ones occasions, as that’ll prevent extra time than anything.
Epcot’s World Meals & Wine Competition will even kick into prime equipment throughout the month of October. Take a look at our Epcot’s World Meals & Wine Competition Information for extra pointers and tips for this tournament.
October is without doubt one of the larger months of the yr for particular occasions at Walt Disney Global. On the other hand, except those we’ve already discussed, maximum received’t be of pastime to somebody studying this. Whilst no longer pertinent as a ‘factor to do,’ those occasions (most commonly main conventions hosted on the Crescent Lake House Accommodations and Coronado Springs) do have an affect on park attendance and crowds.
OCTOBER REFURBISHMENTS & NEW ATTRACTIONS
In relation to points of interest, seek the advice of our Walt Disney Global Refurbishment Agenda to peer what’s scheduled for October. Due it being a hectic month, there normally aren’t a large number of appeal closures throughout October at Walt Disney Global.
The largest journey that’s these days closed is Check Observe, which is being reimagined. A reopening date has no longer but been introduced, nevertheless it’s already showed to be closed for the rest of this yr. We’re anticipating it to reopen for Spring Destroy 2025 on the absolute earliest and someday subsequent summer time at the newest.
Along with that, Jungle Cruise is closed for the primary part of October 2024. On a few sure notes, Nation Endure Musical Jamboree and Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster have each reopened after long downtime. Moreover, the deliberate year-long closure of Large Thunder Mountain Railroad that was once slated to start remaining month has been driven off till 2025.
Additionally, not one of the large initiatives introduced at D23 will get started till someday in 2025. See Development & Openings Timelines for New Lands, Rides & Additions at Disney Global should you care when the ones gets began–however the hot button is they received’t be going down in October 2024.
The 2 latest main points of interest at Walt Disney Global are each in Magic Kingdom, with Tiana’s Bayou Journey now open as of this summer time! 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, Fallacious or Improbable?, the appeal is a combined bag.
In case you’re visiting in October 2024, there are two different belongings you will have to learn about Tiana’s Bayou Journey. The primary is that it makes use of a digital queue…for now. See Find out how to Journey Tiana’s Bayou Journey for the whole thing 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 Using Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom, the reimagined journey is having troubles presently and regularly has a couple of hours of downtime according to day. It most probably received’t drop the digital queue till it’s working extra constantly, with out widespread breakdowns. It sort of feels not likely that’ll occur via September, however who is aware of.
Then there’s TRON Lightcycle Run, which is the newest brand-new (no longer reimagined) main appeal at Walt Disney Global. This curler coaster simply dropped its digital queue remaining month, so you’ll now journey by the use of a standby line. We extremely suggest doing it very first thing within the morning or past due at night time, as TRON instructions lengthy traces.
Bouncing again to EPCOT, there’s a host of different 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 remaining yr. That’s nonetheless lovely new within the grand scheme of items! There’s additionally Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, Area 220 Eating place, Remy’s Ratatouille Journey, and a host of different stuff.
For an summary of what else is at the horizon, see What’s New & Subsequent at Walt Disney Global in 2024 & 2025. (The solution is “not anything else” in October 2024.)
OCTOBER 2024 DISNEY WORLD CROWD CALENDAR
There’s no color-coded crowd calendar for Walt Disney Global on the best of this phase as a result of that may be reductionist and of minimum accuracy for October. It wouldn’t provide the complete image of Walt Disney Global attendance developments or what to anticipate q4.
Walt Disney Global doesn’t unlock professional attendance numbers, so crowd calendars use such things as college schedules, airport visitors statistics, lodge pricing & occupancy, and many others., as proxies for crowds. For years, this means labored and made crowd calendars dependable. Walt Disney Global attendance adopted an identifiable development that tracked with the aforementioned proxies.
For the previous few years, wait instances don’t have any longer reliably replicate precise crowds because of the aforementioned manipulation. We will nonetheless forecast attendance, however no longer the ensuing wait instances. That is like the adaptation between the true temperature and the “seems like” temperature, however with crowds. The “seems like” crowds are most likely what you care about maximum, however Walt Disney Global crowd calendars don’t at all times get the ones proper. With that mentioned, listed here are our crowd calendar predictions for the most productive and worst weeks at Walt Disney Global in October…
October 2024 is prone to see reasonable and above crowds right through the whole thing of the month. There can be “much less busy” and “extra busy” instances inside the month, however low crowd days are not likely. It’ll be considerably busier than September 2024, which is generally the slowest month of all of the yr.
In a standard yr, October would get regularly busier over the process the month, beginning at low-to-moderate ranges within the first week, spiking throughout the second one, and closing increased throughout the center of the month. Higher crowds in October are because of conventions and different team occasions, fall breaks for quite a lot of college districts, and different particular occasions. Briefly, October 2024 can be a distinction to September.
With that mentioned, October normally doesn’t get started out too badly. If truth be told, it’s not unusual for the primary few days of October to be much less busy than past due September, which happens because of offers expiring and better date-based costs at first of the month. As such, we’d be expecting October 1-5, 2024 being rather sluggish. Somewhat lighter crowd ranges than past due September, all because of the expiration of price ticket offers (with not anything to exchange them).
That received’t remaining lengthy. October 6-10, 2024 nonetheless received’t be unhealthy, however crowd ranges will have to begin to ramp up as fall breaks draw closer. In case you’re there each October 10 and 11, it’ll most likely really feel like an on-switch for crowds was once flipped in a single day. It’ll solely worsen from there, as extra faculties are off for his or her breaks.
The center of October can be very busy because of Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 14, 2024. This at all times catches guests via wonder as other people suppose it’s no longer a significant vacation–however it’s in relation to Walt Disney Global journeys. Closing yr, this marked the worst crowds at Walt Disney Global since Easter. We’d be expecting a repeat of that during October 2024.
Accordingly, October 11 thru October 19, 2024 would be the busiest week-plus of fall wreck at Walt Disney Global and one of the most the ten worst ‘weeks’ of the yr. Be expecting day by day crowd ranges of seven/10 to ten/10 at each and every park throughout this date vary, with 8/10 and 9/10 being the most typical crowd ranges if remaining yr is any indication. (It’s imaginable that October 17-19 received’t be slightly that unhealthy.)
Largely, that is because of that week being a not unusual one for fall breaks. Many faculties have days off throughout the following two weeks, resulting in above reasonable attendance in the midst of the October crowd calendar. On the other hand, the 2 weeks that practice normally aren’t as unhealthy, even supposing main college districts (together with the ones in South Florida) normally have breaks.
If we had to make a choice a time to discuss with in October 2024, it’d be October 20-31, 2024. If truth be told, that made our record of the 10 Best possible and 10 Worst Weeks to Consult with Walt Disney Global in 2024 & 2025. The ones dates certainly received’t be uncrowded and even have low crowds in absolute phrases, nevertheless it’s generally a excellent window within the month of October.
Then there’s Halloween on October 31, 2024 to finish the month; this isn’t a horrible vacation from a crowds point of view since nobody has it off paintings or college. However coupled with early November 2024 occasions, such because the Wine & Dine Part Marathon Weekend that weekend, it’ll most likely be worse than the sooner days in that time frame.
In a standard yr, few days are 10/10 at the numerical October 2024 crowd calendar. Slightly, maximum days are within the 7/10 or 8/10 vary. On the other hand, it received’t really feel like many days are “solely” 7/10 at the crowd calendar should you get unfortunate.
The opposite drawback with October is that there are curler coaster crowds right through the day and no longer all parks are similarly busy. That is essentially because of Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration at Magic Kingdom and the Epcot Meals & Wine Competition.
Talking of which, we’d suggest heading off Mondays at Magic Kingdom right through October. They’re prone to be the busiest days of the month. Further crimson flag dates for Magic Kingdom are October 2, 5, 9, 16, 19, and 26.
On Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration (MNSSHP) nights, Magic Kingdom closes to common price ticket holders at 6 pm. In consequence, the park is much less busy throughout the day time hours on dates when MNSSHP is held, and extra busy on non-party days. This would possibly appear counter-intuitive, nevertheless it’s for the reason that social gathering is separately-ticketed.
We’d strongly suggest visiting Magic Kingdom throughout the day on Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration nights, after which bouncing to any other park at round 4 pm. Animal Kingdom will at all times be the best choice for lower-crowd evenings throughout the autumn.
Most often, the most important affect is felt nearer to Halloween, which means it’s worst in October. We’ve reported in this phenomenon at period, seeing this play out each and every unmarried day of Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration season, as mentioned in Best possible & Worst Days to Do Magic Kingdom in 2024. (In case you’re questioning why one of the vital dates above are crimson flags for Magic Kingdom, that submit explains it.)
Closing yr, Halloween social gathering days have ranged from 1/10 to three/10 at the crowd calendar.
In October 2024, our expectation is that MNSSHP days will practice that very same development, and be round 2/10 to 4/10 in Magic Kingdom. Whilst that’s upper than in August or September, it’s value noting that nonparty days can also be a lot busier in Magic Kingdom. If the rest, the unfold between wait instances on MNSSHP days as opposed to non-party days will develop.
Even supposing Magic Kingdom closes previous to common visitors on MNSSHP days, it additionally generally opens previous. It is a large benefit, as coated in Photograph Record & Technique: Magic Kingdom Early Access at 7:30 am on Birthday celebration Days.
Epcot can be considerably extra busy on weekends in relation to ‘seems like’ crowds, particularly when Florida schools like UCF have away soccer video games. Even supposing this doesn’t affect appeal wait instances, it does negatively affect environment. There are occasions when Global Show off could have a frat social gathering vibe on weekends, which is solely unsightly.
Epcot’s attendance can be lightest on weekdays ahead of 4 pm, with crowds rising after paintings as locals prove to graze on the Meals & Wine cubicles. Epcot is a significantly better revel in Mondays thru Thursdays. Saturday and Sunday will have to be have shyed away from if in any respect imaginable.
Animal Kingdom will at all times be the best choice for lower-crowd evenings throughout the autumn. Up to now this Birthday celebration Season, Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been an excellent possibility on non-MNSSHP days. We’re additionally large fanatics of Park Hopping there for the second one part of the day, catching Fantasmic or doing headliners with considerably shorter traces.
As mentioned in Best possible & Worst Days of the Week to Do All Parks at Walt Disney Global (and in other places), weekends had been ‘wonky’ at Walt Disney Global in recent times, and far slower than the historic norm. On the other hand, we’ve been extremely skeptical that this pattern would proceed for October thru December.
Then there’s Disney Springs, the Crescent Lake motels, and different prime profile eating places and bars at Walt Disney Global, all of which might be busier within the evenings throughout October. That is because of a surge in conference industry, which peaks this month. Make sure you make ADRs for any effective eating outdoor the parks, and remember that you simply’ll stumble upon heavier crowds in Disney Springs.
The above a number of paragraphs underscore why we don’t in point of fact deal with conventional color-coded or numerical Walt Disney Global crowd calendars. Not one of the above developments might be adequately conveyed via a easy graphic, and it’d be simple to turn out to be pissed off if we merely had an October 2024 crowd calendar with a ton of seven/10 or 8/10 days.
As an alternative, we’ve defined the how and why of October crowd drift, and now you’ll plan accordingly. Whilst you’ll nonetheless stumble upon congestion and lengthy waits, via zigging when others zag, you will have to steer clear of the worst of October’s crowds. This strategic park hopping recommendation is worthwhile, and extra helpful than a numerical October crowd calendar.
OCTOBER PRICING & DISCOUNTS
But even so the occasions, October is a brilliant month to discuss with with regards to what you’ll pay to discuss with. Unmarried day price ticket costs are solely within the Worth or Common seasons, which means that decrease costs there. This doesn’t do you a lot excellent should you’re purchasing multi-day tickets, however the ones costs additionally have a tendency to be reasonable or beneath, as neatly.
There also are generally respectable room-only bargain gives, and we normally desire this bargain to the preferred Loose Disney Eating Plan promotion (which blocks out all of the month of October, anyway). In case you’re reserving a room-only bargain, you’ll come to a decision for your self which lodge may well be best possible via studying our Walt Disney Global Lodge Evaluations.
Total, October is a combined bag. There are nice occasions and the elements is beginning to get nicer, however there was a surge in crowds the previous few Octobers, and we’d be expecting that pattern to proceed. Nonetheless, we in point of fact like October, and if it ever returns to being a standard month crowd-wise, it’d be amongst our absolute favourite instances to discuss with Walt Disney Global. If truth be told, if you’ll get previous the crowds, October remains to be a rather excellent month to discuss with. The elements is making improvements to, and the seasonal occasions are in complete swing.
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Your Ideas
Are you partial to visiting Walt Disney Global in October? Are you excited for Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration, Epcot’s Meals & Wine Competition, and the whole thing new at Walt Disney Global? Or would you favor not anything particular or new, however decrease crowds? Have you ever skilled the heavier October crowds the remaining a number of years? Which month do you love to discuss with WDW? Listening to your comments about your reports is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas or questions beneath within the feedback!
