Walt Disney World Tourism Statistics

At a glance

• Walt Disney World's four theme parks recorded 49.1 million visits in 2024, up 0.7% from 2023.¹
• Magic Kingdom is the most-visited theme park in the world, with 17.8 million visitors in 2024.¹
• The four parks welcome about 134,000 visitors per day.¹
• Disney generated $40.3 billion in economic activity in Florida in fiscal 2022.²
• September was the least busy month in 2025, with an average posted wait of 35 minutes, while January and March were the busiest (47 minutes).³
• Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground had about 1.395 million campers in 2025, by CamperChamp's estimate.

Walt Disney World's parks record close to 50 million visits a year, more than any other theme park resort in the world.¹ Its four theme parks drew 49.1 million visits in 2024, up 0.7% from 48.8 million in 2023.

• Attendance rose 3.6% in 2023, from 47.1 million to 48.8 million.⁴
• In 2022, the parks recorded 47.1 million visits, 29.9% more than in 2021.⁵
• The record is 58.8 million, set in 2019, the year before the pandemic.⁶
• The pandemic then cut attendance by 68%, to 18.8 million in 2020.⁷

Walt Disney World has four theme parks: Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom. Magic Kingdom draws the biggest crowds year after year.¹

• All four grew in 2024: Magic Kingdom welcomed 17.8 million visitors (up 0.7%), EPCOT 12.1 million (up 1.3%), Disney's Hollywood Studios 10.3 million (up 0.3%) and Disney's Animal Kingdom 8.8 million (up 0.3%).¹

How many people visit Walt Disney World per day?

Walt Disney World's four theme parks welcome about 134,000 visitors a day.¹ Here is how that splits across the parks:

• Magic Kingdom: 48,700 a day¹
• EPCOT: 33,200 a day¹
• Hollywood Studios: 28,200 a day¹
• Animal Kingdom: 24,000 a day¹

How much does it cost to visit Walt Disney World?

A 5-night Walt Disney World trip for a family of four costs about $4,900 to $8,800 for tickets, hotel and food, before flights.¹¹

• 1-day, 1-park adult ticket: $119–$209, depending on the date and park.¹²
• 4-day base ticket: about $140 per day ($558.56 in total for a trip starting August 3, 2026).¹³
• Disney hotel: $118–$307 (Value), $248–$324 (Moderate) and from $425 (Deluxe) per night for most of the year.¹¹
• 5-night family trip by hotel tier: about $4,900 (Value), $6,000 (Moderate) or $8,800 (Deluxe).¹¹

September was the best time to visit Walt Disney World in 2025. It was the least busy month, with an average posted wait of 35 minutes at key attractions, and August came next at 39 minutes.³

• July (40 minutes) and May, June, October and November (41 minutes each) were also fairly quiet.³
• The busiest months were January and March, both averaging 47 minutes, followed by February at 46 minutes.³

Disney does not publish monthly attendance, so these months are compared by average posted wait times, the best public guide to crowds.

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground hosted an estimated 1.395 million campers in 2025, up 2.3% from 1.363 million in 2024.

• In 2019, before the pandemic, it had about 1.379 million.
• Numbers roughly halved to 673,000 in 2020, then recovered to 1.090 million in 2021 and 1.283 million in 2022.

Disney does not publish campground guest numbers, so these are CamperChamp estimates. Each year's figure multiplies the estimated occupancy rate (below) by Fort Wilderness's 1,210 campsites and cabins, about 3.6 guests per occupied site and 365 nights.

Fort Wilderness occupancy rate and revenue

Fort Wilderness is usually 80% to 90% full. Its estimated occupancy rate was 86% in 2019, fell to 42% in 2020, settled at 84%–85% in 2023–2024 and reached a high of 87% in 2025.

Disney does not publish occupancy figures, so these rates are CamperChamp's own estimates of how full the 1,210 campsites and cabins are across the year, not published data.

Fort Wilderness earned an estimated $80 million from lodging in 2024, 60% more than in 2010, thanks to higher occupancy and rising prices. Disney does not publish this figure, so it is a CamperChamp estimate: about 375,000 occupied nights in 2024 (85% of the 1,210 campsites and cabins) at an average of roughly $213 a night.

Walt Disney World is still the world's most visited theme park resort.¹ Its four parks drew 49.1 million visits in 2024, far more than Disneyland Resort in California, whose two parks drew 27.4 million.

• Magic Kingdom is the world's most visited theme park, with 17.8 million visitors in 2024, just ahead of California's Disneyland Park (17.3 million).¹
• All four Walt Disney World parks ranked among the top 15 most-visited theme parks worldwide in 2024.¹
• Universal Studios Japan (16 million), Tokyo Disneyland (15.1 million) and Shanghai Disneyland (14.7 million) completed the world's top five.¹
• In Orlando, Universal Studios Florida (9.5 million) and Islands of Adventure (9.45 million) both lost visitors in 2024, while all four Disney parks grew.¹
• TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice (2020) ranked Magic Kingdom the best amusement park in the world.¹⁹

Latest available: 2024. Universal's Epic Universe, which opened in Orlando in May 2025, will first appear in the 2025 figures.¹

• Disney supports more than 263,000 jobs in Florida, counting its own staff and jobs created by guest spending, and Walt Disney World is one of the state’s largest employers.²
• The resort covers about 25,000 acres.⁸
• Disney owns 18 resort hotels and vacation club properties at Walt Disney World, with about 23,000 rooms and 3,900 vacation club units, plus about 7,000 rooms in 10 independently run hotels on its land.⁸
• The resort also has two water parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon, three championship golf courses and Disney Springs, with about 150 shops, restaurants and venues.⁸