Walt Disney World operating hours released through late March, including extension to hours during early February

Jan 19, 2024 in "Operating Hours"

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Posted: Friday January 19, 2024 12:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The Walt Disney World operating hours calendar has been updated with theme park schedules through late March 2024

In this latest update, hours are now available through March 23, 2024, at all four Walt Disney World theme parks.

Hours are now available through March 23

Several changes have also been made to operating hours in early February, in most cases extended by one or two hours. The changes are shown below, with the previous hours shown in brackets.

Magic Kingdom

February 4 - 8: 9 am-10 pm (9 am-9 pm)
February 9, 10: 8 am-11 pm (9 am- 9 pm)

Disney's Animal Kingdom

February 4: 8 am-7 pm (8 am-6 pm)
February 9, 10: 8 am-8 pm (8 am- 6 pm)

Disney's Hollywood Studios

February 5 - 10: 8:30 am-9 pm (9 am-9 pm)

You can view all the latest Walt Disney World operating hours here.

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DCBaker6 days ago

Disney has extended park hours at Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom for the week of September 29, 2024. Magic Kingdom Sept. 30: 9am-10pm (previously 9am-9pm) Oct. 2: 9am-10pm (previously 9am-9pm) Oct. 3, 4: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Oct. 5: 9am-11pm (previously 9am-9pm) Disney’s Animal Kingdom Sept. 29, 30: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Oct. 1, 2, 3: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Oct. 4, 5: 8am-7pm (previously 9am-6pm)

nickys12 days ago

That is fairly common for Fantasmic to be after official closing.

Addo12 days ago

15th September seems an anomaly at HS. Close 9:30pm. Fantasmic 10pm. Any ideas why? Planning to be there that date. 😊

DCBaker13 days ago

Park hours at Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom have been extended for the week of September 22, 2024. Magic Kingdom Sept. 22, 27: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Sept. 28: 9am-11pm (previously 9am-10pm) Disney’s Animal Kingdom Sept. 22, 27, 28: 8am-7pm (previously 9am-6pm) Sept. 23, 24, 25, 26: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm)

DCBaker20 days ago

Disney has extended park hours at Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios for the week of September 15, 2024. Magic Kingdom Sept. 20: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Sept. 21: 9am-11pm (previously 9am-10pm) Disney’s Animal Kingdom Sept. 15-19: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Sept. 20, 21: 8am-7pm (previously 9am-6pm) Disney's Hollywood Studios Sept. 15: 9am-9:30pm (previously 9am-9pm)

mattpeto22 days ago

Some weirdness I haven’t seen... Both November 5th and 6th in the rolling calendar have been unveiled with “Schedule Unavailable”.

DCBaker27 days ago

Park hours at Animal Kingdom and one day at Hollywood Studios have been extended for the week of September 8, 2024. Disney’s Animal Kingdom Sept. 8-14: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) Disney's Hollywood Studios Sept. 13: 9am-9:30pm (previously 9am-9pm)

spectromagic0430 days ago

Probably because this past weekend was crazy busy. They are expecting the same crowd levels again because of the annual passholder magnets.

DCBaker30 days ago

Update - Disney has extended the park closing time from 6pm to 7pm at Animal Kingdom on August 23 and 24.

KDM31091Aug 16, 2024

Makes sense, as it almost always opens at 8 anyway

DCBakerAug 16, 2024

Park hours at Animal Kingdom have been extended for the week of September 1, 2024. Standard hours remain at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and EPCOT. Disney’s Animal Kingdom Sept. 1-7: 8am-6pm (previously 9am-6pm) *A note about an upcoming change to standard hours - beginning October 20, 2024 Animal Kingdom hours shift from 9am-6pm to 8am-6pm.

DCBakerAug 10, 2024

See below - Magic Kingdom moved to a default 10pm close on May 12. It shifts back to 9pm on September 30.

Tha RealestAug 10, 2024

Keeping operating hours to a narrower window would seem to be a tool deployed by the managers to keep down costs in the face of slower attendance

mattpetoAug 10, 2024

On the rolling calendar, Magic Kingdom is defaulting to a 9 pm closing in October? I could have sworn it’s always been 10 pm? I realize they will just extend to 10 pm or 11 pm but I don’t recall an opening time of 9 pm for MK.