Disney World Park Hours: Live Times for All Four Parks

Disney World park hours move. Disney publishes a schedule months ahead, then adjusts it as bookings firm up, and by the time most guides go live their numbers are already a season out of date.

So this page reads Walt Disney World’s published schedule directly and refreshes itself every hour. What you see below is today.

Hours for each park

Each park has its own page with the fortnight ahead, Early Theme Park Entry times, Extended Evening nights and any ticketed events that shorten the day.

• Magic Kingdom hours, the park whose closing time moves most
• EPCOT hours, including when World Showcase actually opens
• Hollywood Studios hours
• Animal Kingdom hours, the earliest to open and the earliest to shut

Why the hours move

Disney sets hours against forecast attendance, and the forecast changes. A date pencilled in at 9am to 9pm in January can be 8am to 11pm by the time it arrives, because a school holiday landed differently or a new attraction opened.

The adjustments almost always go one way: parks add time rather than cut it. If you have planned around a 9pm close and the park is now open until 11pm, that is two hours you did not budget for and the last of them are the quietest of the day.

School holidays and the weeks around Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving push closing times later. Hurricane season can shorten a day at no notice. And hard ticket events cut a park’s public day short, which is the one that catches people out.

Early Theme Park Entry

Every guest staying at a Disney resort hotel can enter any of the four parks 30 minutes before the posted opening time, every day. So do 15 partner hotels, including the Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve and Shades of Green, according to Disney.

Thirty minutes does not sound like much. In practice it is the single most useful perk of staying on site, because those 30 minutes land before the general opening crowd reaches the headline rides. A ride that posts 75 minutes at 11am is often a walk-on at 8.35am.

Two things to know. You still need valid park admission, and the parks do not open every attraction during Early Entry, so check which ones are running before you commit your half hour to walking somewhere that is still shut.

Extended Evening Hours

Extended Evening Theme Park Hours gives guests at Disney Deluxe Resorts and Deluxe Villa resorts, plus the Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve and Shades of Green, 2 extra hours after a park closes to everyone else. It runs on selected nights at selected parks.

Which park hosts it has been unusually unsettled through 2026, instead of holding to the old Monday and Wednesday pattern. Disney’s calendar for 11 to 25 October 2026 lists EPCOT on 12 and 19 October, Hollywood Studios on 14 October and Animal Kingdom on 20 October, and none at Magic Kingdom. Any page quoting you a fixed weekly rota is quoting last year.

The live table flags Extended Evening on the days it applies. If you are paying deluxe rates partly for this benefit, it is worth checking the specific nights of your stay rather than assuming.

Party nights and other early closures

From early August to 22 December, Magic Kingdom runs hard ticket events on roughly half the nights of the week: Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party until 31 October, then Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party on 25 nights from 8 November. On those days the park closes to ordinary ticket holders at 6pm, five hours earlier than a normal summer evening. The party runs from 7pm to midnight, and party ticket holders can enter from 4pm, according to Disney.

This is the single most common way a Disney day goes wrong. You arrive with a park ticket, plan an evening around the fireworks, and find you are being asked to leave at 6pm. Hollywood Studios closes early to day guests on Jollywood Nights dates, at 7pm on the dates Disney has published. Disney After Hours starts after the normal close.

Our live park hours table marks these days. If Magic Kingdom closes at 6pm, the reason is almost always a ticketed event, and an ordinary park ticket does not cover it. A 6pm close is normal at Animal Kingdom.

How far ahead Disney publishes hours

Disney’s own calendar shows confirmed hours about 8 weeks out (to about 10 December 2026, checked 13 October 2026). Those distant dates are a placeholder, and they get revised as the date approaches.

The live table on this page shows today, and each park’s own hours page runs about two weeks ahead, which is roughly the window where the times have settled. For anything further out, check Disney’s calendar and come back nearer the time.

Sources

• Walt Disney World, park hours calendar for 15 October 2026. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
• Walt Disney World, After Hours. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
• Walt Disney World, park hours calendar for 14 October 2026. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
• Walt Disney World, park hours calendar for 10 December 2026. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
• Walt Disney World, Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
• Disney Springs, Hours and Directions. Retrieved 13 October 2026.

We check every date and price against Disney’s own listings before publishing, and say so plainly when Disney has not announced something. How we work is set out in our editorial standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

How busy will it be?

Hours tell you when the parks are open. For how full they are, see our Disney World crowd calendar, built on our own wait-time readings, and the best time of day to ride each attraction.

Disney Springs

Disney Springs keeps its own schedule and is not a theme park, so it is not in the live feed above. It opens at 10am and closes at 11pm daily, according to Disney Springs, with some venues open to 11.30pm on Friday and Saturday. See Disney Springs hours for today and the week ahead.