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2025 Dates You Should Know If You’re a Disney World Fan


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We’re less than two months away from 2025, and that means a lot of changes are right around the corner.

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Magic Kingdom

On top of the usual events and opportunities Disney World offers throughout the year, 2025 is bringing loads of construction and new attractions to the parks (or at least, laying the groundwork for them). If you’re taking a trip this upcoming year, make sure you’ve got these dates locked into your head to assist with your planning!

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January

January will be a pretty wild month in Disney World, seeing permanent attraction closures, runDisney races, the start of After Hours events, a new hotel perk, the start of an EPCOT festival, and more! Let’s break it down.

  • January 1st: New Disney World Hotel Water Park perk begins (Guests staying at a Disney World hotel now get free access to Disney’s water parks on the day of their check-in)
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Summit Plummet at Blizzard Beach

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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

  • Select dates January 6th to May 19th: Magic Kingdom After Hours events return — see full dates here!
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Dino-Rama

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Festival of the Arts 2023

  • Select dates January 22nd to September 3rd: After Hours at Hollywood Studios return — see full dates here!
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Hollywood Studios

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Fantasia Pool

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Stormalong Bay at Disney’s Beach Club

February

February isn’t as hectic when it comes to new additions and events — that is, based on the dates we currently have!

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Hi, Mickey!

April

April comes in hot with another race weekend and a special event that only SOME Disney fans know about.

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  • April 26th and 27th: Dapper Days in Disney World (parks to be announced)
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Without Exact Dates

There are also many new additions and events coming to Disney World in 2025 that we don’t have specific dates for just yet, but you still need to keep them on your radar!

  • Additional DinoLand U.S.A closures throughout 2025
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Dinoland U.S.A.

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Spaceship Earth Lounge ©Disney

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An all-new lounge themed to Pirates of the Caribbean will open at Magic Kingdom in 2025.
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  • Villains Show taking the former building that housed Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy in Disney’s Hollywood Studios
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Test Track concept art ©Disney

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Coming Coming to Frontierland at Magic Kingdom, a new area themed to Pixar Animation Studios’ “Cars” will leave Radiator Springs and head to the wilderness with two new attractions including an off-road race.

  • Additional EPCOT festival dates
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Spaceship Earth

  • Construction begins on Monsters Inc. Land in Hollywood Studios (which could also mean the closure of another existing area)
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A new land themed to Pixar Animation Studios’ “Monsters, Inc.” is coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Taking place after the events of the film, Monstropolis need humans’ laughter to power the city. Guests can even ride on a door like Mike and Sully in the iconic scene from the film with Disney’s first-ever suspended coaster.

  • Construction begins on Villains Land in Magic Kingdom (began in late 2024, but could mean the closure of the Walt Disney World Railroad again)
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Villains Land Concept Art ©Disney

We’ll be sure to bring you updates on these changes and events when we hear more about them, so stay tuned to DFB!

6 Dates to Consider When Planning Your 2025 Disney World Vacation

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