Walt Disney World Wait Times for Early October 2025

Viral reports have suggested year-low attendance at Walt Disney World.

Well, that’s something we can easily determine. So, let’s fact-check these anecdotal reports.

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Here are Walt Disney World’s wait times for early October 2025.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Here’s the deal. According to some reports, Walt Disney World is experiencing its lowest crowds of the year.

Those of you who read this article each week – Thank you! – know why that’s the case.

Disney theme parks don’t have an offseason per se, but September’s the closest thing to it.

Historically, I would have said January and September qualify as Disney World’s slowest months.

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However, the EPCOT International Festival of the Arts has boosted attendance enough to change that.

At this point, even the vaunted EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival doesn’t have enough juice to help September.

Coastal Eats – 2025 Food & Wine Festival

I should mention that calendar configuration plays a factor in these discussions, though.

So, we could be looking at a case where the end of September and start of October represent low tide.

EPCOT 2025 Food & Wine Festival

We’ll figure that out with this week’s data. Honestly, I’ll be surprised if it’s lower than what we tracked four weeks ago, though.

Had the articles been written then, they would have been valid. But nobody was mad at Disney then.

Tree of Life

Here are Animal Kingdom’s average wait times for the past week:

• Avatar Flight of Passage – 44 minutes, down 12
• Na’vi River Journey – 33 minutes, down 14
• Adventurers Outpost – 26 minutes, down 4
• Expedition Everest – 19 minutes, down 7
• Kilimanjaro Safaris – 17 minutes, down 9
• DINOSAUR – 13 minutes, down 8
• Kali River Rapids – 13 minutes, down 13

Triceratop Spin

Overall, Animal Kingdom guests happily waited for just an average of 24 minutes per attraction.

That’s nine minutes less than last time. For the sake of authenticity, I’ll include something else.

An Ilm can be spotted on Avatar: Flight of Passage

That’s also three minutes less what we tracked during the first week of September.

So, these reports, while annoying, have something to them, at least at Animal Kingdom.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Studios entrance

Let’s check the other parks for comparison. I’m going to leave out the conversation and focus on the data.

This is an important story and deserves a bit more of a hard look than usual with wait times.

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Here’s how long people spent standing in line at Hollywood Studios last week:

• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 61 minutes, up 10
• Slinky Dog Dash – 58 minutes, down 3
• Toy Story Mania! – 42 minutes, down 5
• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 37 minutes, down 9
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith – 36 minutes, down 6
• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 35 minutes, down 10
• Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – 32 minutes, up 1
• Red Carpet Dreams – 30 minutes, down 5
• Alien Swirling Saucers – 24 minutes, down 2
• Celebrity Spotlight – 15 minutes, no change
• Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 10 minutes, no change

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Overall, the average Hollywood Studios attraction required a wait of 34 minutes.

That’s three minutes less than last time and one minute less than in early September.

Thus far, there is data to support that this was the slowest week of the year at half the parks.

EPCOT

Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure

We still have two more parks to track, and they’re the most popular ones at Disney World.

That fact actually makes them more susceptible to declines, though.

Here are EPCOT’s average wait times last week:

• Test Track – 68 minutes, down 18
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind – 61 minutes, down 12
• Frozen Ever After – 51 minutes, down 4
• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 48 minutes, down 7
• Royal Sommerhus – 38 minutes, down 3
• Soarin’ Around the World – 29 minutes, down 7
• Mission: SPACE – 25 minutes, down 8
• Meet Mickey & Friends – 19 minutes, down 4
• Turtle Talk with Crush – 19 minutes, no change
• Living with the Land – 16 minutes, down 6
• The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 15 minutes, down 6
• Journey into Imagination with Figment – 14 minutes, down 4
• Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 11 minutes, down 2

EPCOT

Overall, the average EPCOT attraction required a wait of 32 minutes, which is six minutes less than last time.

Comparing this data to the previous lowest week of the year, it’s actually two minutes higher.

Across three parks so far, we’re down three minutes overall.

Magic Kingdom

Main Street, U.S.A.

So, Magic Kingdom will determine the reality of the situation.

Here are its average wait times last week:

• TRON Lightcycle / Run – 52 minutes, down 8
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 47 minutes, down 5
• Peter Pan’s Flight – 43 minutes, down 4
• Jungle Cruise – 39 minutes, down 5
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 32 minutes, down 3
• Tiana’s Bayou Adventure – 32 minutes, down 13
• Haunted Mansion – 30 minutes, down 6
• Pete’s Silly Sideshow – 28 minutes, down 4
• Princess Fairytale Hall – 28 minutes, down 3
• Ariel’s Grotto – 27 minutes, down 3
• Space Mountain – 25 minutes, down 7
• Town Square Theater – 24 minutes, down 2
• Pirates of the Caribbean – 22 minutes, down 3
• Walt Disney Railroad – 22 minutes, up 2
• Enchanted Tales with Belle – 20 minutes, no change
• Astro Orbiter – 18 minutes, down 1
• It’s a Small World – 15 minutes, down 4
• Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 15 minutes, no change
• Tomorrowland Speedway – 15 minutes, up 1
• Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 15 minutes, down 4
• The Barnstormer – 14 minutes, down 3
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 13 minutes, down 1
• Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 13 minutes, no change
• Country Bear Musical Jamboree – 12 minutes, no change
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 12 minutes, down 4
• Mad Tea Party – 11 minutes, down 2
• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 10 minutes, down 1
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 10 minutes, down 2
• Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change

Final Thoughts

Overall, Magic Kingdom guests waited for an average of 22 minutes, which is three minutes less than last time.

Note that this is one minute higher than the one a month ago. So, Magic Kingdom is up from then.

In terms of data, two of the parks are up slightly from that low point, while the other two are down slightly.

In totality, Walt Disney World’s average wait times were slightly lower this past week than then.

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So, yes, even though the story was ragebait, it is based in some fact.

This past week probably was the least crowded one at Disney World. It definitely was at Animal Kingdom.

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