Walt Disney World Wait Times for Second Week of November 2025
The holidays have arrived in earnest at Walt Disney World.
By the time you read this, Disney will have entered its official holiday season, which started on November 14th.
From now through the end of the year, you’ll notice decorations everywhere you look at the parks.
We’re still awaiting a pair of traditions to complete the holiday vibe at Disney.
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Those are EPCOT’s Candlelight Processional and the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays.
On November 28th, both those events return, and then we’ll have more than a full month of pure holiday magic.
So, we’re celebrating the magic of the season as we examine Walt Disney World’s wait times for the second week of November 2025.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
The biggest story at Animal Kingdom right now isn’t the ongoing construction for a change.
I’m happy to report that the Merry Menagerie has returned, and there’s even merchandise this year!
When we heard that our favorite annual activity was back, we rushed to the park.
While we were there, we even stopped to meet Santa Claus! So, it really is a great time to visit the park.
Meet Santa Claus – DinoLand U.S.A.
Alas, not many people have done it recently, as Animal Kingdom is currently Disney World’s least trafficked park.
How were the crowds as the holiday season began?
Tree of Life
Let’s find out. Here are the park’s average wait times last week:
- Avatar Flight of Passage – 62 minutes, up 4
- Na’vi River Journey – 50 minutes, up 2
- Adventurers Outpost – 38 minutes, up 3
- Kilimanjaro Safaris – 38 minutes, up 3
- Expedition Everest – 33 minutes, up 4
- DINOSAUR – 30 minutes, up 5
- Zootopia: Better Zoogether! – 29 minutes, down 5
Overall, Animal Kingdom park visitors stood in line for an average of 40 minutes per attraction.
That’s two minutes more than last time, which isn’t surprising.
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With the Zootopia show up and running, there’s more to do at the park for the first time in a while.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Santa at Walt Disney Presents
Then again, the crowds could have increased due to the start of the holiday season at Disney.
As Disney recently revealed, Walt Disney World’s attendance fell during the fiscal fourth quarter.
That was the timeframe of July, August, and September, but from what I saw, October was a bigger problem.
So, we’re all left wondering how much of this is intentional on Disney’s part.
After all, the company reported record revenue in its theme park division in fiscal 2025.
Nobody wants to admit it, but Disney may have min-maxed its way to perfect crowd control.
Disney Experiences increases its revenue and net income annually while keeping the crowds reasonable.
That’s something MickeyBlog is always tracking. You can draw your own conclusions while looking at the park’s wait times:
- Slinky Dog Dash – 69 minutes, up 2
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 61 minutes, up 4
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – 59 minutes, up 17
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 55 minutes, up 6
- Toy Story Mania! – 53 minutes, no change
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith – 49 minutes, up 3
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 41 minutes, up 2
- Red Carpet Dreams – 39 minutes, up 2
- Alien Swirling Saucers – 33 minutes, no change
- Celebrity Spotlight – 21minutes, up 2
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 12 minutes, up 1
Overall, guests waited for an average of 45 minutes per attraction, which is four minutes more than last time.
EPCOT
Thus far, we’re trending toward larger holiday crowds at Walt Disney World.
As I mentioned, guests had reason to wait at EPCOT, though, as its big two activities haven’t started yet.
Still, the decorations are up at the park, and that’s plenty enough for diehards like me.
Here are EPCOT’s average wait times last week:
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- Test Track – 87 minutes, up 11
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind – 73 minutes, down 3
- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 70 minutes, up 11
- Frozen Ever After – 60 minutes, up 2
- Royal Sommerhus – 44 minutes, down 3
- Soarin’ Around the World – 39 minutes, down 1
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 27 minutes, up 3
- Meet Mickey & Friends – 25 minutes, up 1
- Spaceship Earth – 25 minutes, no change
- Living with the Land – 22 minutes, up 2
- Mission: SPACE – 21 minutes, down 5
- Turtle Talk with Crush – 19 minutes, no change
- Journey into Imagination with Figment – 17 minutes, up 2
- Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 12 minutes, no change
Overall, EPCOT attractions required an average wait of 39 minutes. That’s two minutes more than last time, which follows the trend.
We’ve got one more park to check, though. So, the overall picture may yet change.
Magic Kingdom
Here are Magic Kingdom’s average wait times last week:
- TRON Lightcycle / Run – 62 minutes, up 2
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 58 minutes, no change
- Jingle Cruise – 53 minutes, down 1
- Peter Pan’s Flight – 50 minutes, no change
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 40 minutes, up 1
- Haunted Mansion – 39 minutes, up 2
- Space Mountain – 38 minutes, up 1
- Pete’s Silly Sideshow – 34 minutes, down 2
- Princess Fairytale Hall – 34 minutes, down 1
- Tiana’s Bayou Adventure – 34 minutes, down 8
- Ariel’s Grotto – 30 minutes, down 2
- Town Square Theater – 28 minutes, no change
- Pirates of the Caribbean – 27 minutes, no change
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 25 minutes, down 2
- Enchanted Tales with Belle – 24 minutes, no change
- Walt Disney World Railroad – 24 minutes, up 5
- Astro Orbiter – 23 minutes, up 1
- It’s a Small World – 22 minutes, down 2
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 22 minutes, no change
- The Barnstormer – 21 minutes, down 1
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 21 minutes, no change
- Mad Tea Party – 16 minutes, no change
- Tomorrowland Speedway – 16 minutes, no change
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 16 minutes, up 1
- Country Bear Musical Jamboree – 13 minutes, up 1
- Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 13 minutes, down 1
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 12 minutes, no change
- Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change
Final Thoughts
Overall, guests stood in line for an average of 29 minutes per Magic Kingdom attraction.
Notably, that’s the same total as last week, making Magic Kingdom the only park without an increase.
Cinderella Castle
Still, Walt Disney World increased slightly as a whole despite the stagnant crowds at Magic Kingdom.
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