March 2025 at Disney World: Crowd Calendar & Information

This information to March 2025 at Walt Disney World provides a free crowd calendar, weeks to go to & keep away from, climate, experience refurbishments, and what’s new. All of this, plus information & ideas for Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. (Up to date February 19, 2025.)

March 2025 will possible be a “story of two seasons.” Or maybe not, as there are some key variations between this 12 months and final 12 months that we’ll focus on within the crowds part under. The underside line is that the second half of March 2025 will likely be busy, as many faculties and plenty of college methods within the nation will take their spring break…and which means journeys to Walt Disney World!

If you happen to’re one way or the other capable of get previous that (maybe you’re an avid queue fanatic, through which case 120-minute waits is likely to be proper up your alley), the month of March 2025 can in any other case be time to go to Walt Disney World. Let’s check out the highs and lows of the month…

Whereas it’s at all times above-average by way of crowds, components of March 2025 received’t be as dangerous for a few causes. First, as a result of Easter isn’t till April 20, 2025. That is 3 full weeks later than the earlier 12 months, which is able to successfully unfold out the Spring Break season and dilute crowds. Faculties that plan their Spring Breaks across the Easter vacation received’t be off for Spring Break in March 2025.

Nevertheless, many Okay-12 colleges and faculties in america have their Spring Breaks earlier in March. That features many districts in Florida, together with the 2 counties with the greatest influence on Walt Disney World crowds. We’ll focus on the ramifications of Spring Break within the March 2025 crowd calendar part under. Right here’s what else that you must know in regards to the month at Walt Disney World, organized into handy classes…

March Climate at Disney World

So far as the climate goes, March is the month when the climate begins to show round and heat up. Temperatures rise over the course of the month, and though they’re nonetheless on the cool aspect of delicate, it’s normally fairly snug. Positive, it may be abnormally chilly or sizzling in March (positively examine the long run forecast earlier than visiting because it actually may very well be both), however you’re usually in for climate that’s virtually superb for touring the parks.

Lows in the beginning of the month are within the mid-50s and creep up in direction of the 60s by the tip of the month. Excessive temperatures vary from 75 to 80 levels. In these numbers and the “snug” band on this web page, you may assume that it skews in direction of chilly. That may be true early within the morning and late at night time, however remember that you’ll be most energetic throughout the center of the day when it’s warmest; personally, I desire barely cooler temperatures after I’m energetic, anyway.

The result’s that I discover March to be one of many higher months of the 12 months for climate in Florida, notably in direction of the tip of the month. Firstly of the month you’re extra more likely to expertise unseasonably chilly climate, so I are inclined to keep away from that. About the one draw back to this delicate climate is that it could make visiting water parks or spending a lot time in your resort lodge’s pool much less interesting (or downright unappealing). This is usually a bummer for these in search of a ‘tropical’ reprieve from winter within the North.

Being Michiganders, that’s precisely what my household needed from our journeys after I was rising up. I nonetheless bear in mind an early March trip throughout which my mother and father determined to stubbornly follow our plans (I paint them as “cussed” however the actuality was in all probability that I used to be a bratty child who insisted upon going) to go to Blizzard Seashore. There was virtually nobody within the park, and all of us spent the higher park of the day wrapped in towels on our seashore chairs.

I recall crossing the icebergs in Ski Patrol Coaching Camp and envisioning them as precise chunks of ice, which wasn’t that a lot of a stretch of the creativeness on the time. I share all of this since you may not wish to make concrete plans for the water parks or put an excessive amount of weight in a lodge’s swimming pool when selecting a lodge or planning a March go to–you could not wish to spend time at both.

March 2025 Disney World Particular Occasions

Let’s begin out with the nonpublic occasions in March 2025 that influence attendance at Walt Disney World. Whereas there isn’t a Beer Bong World Championship (not to mention extra unsavory occasions) held on the ESPN Vast World of Sports activities, there are youth occasions that can lead to simply as wild of crowds.

There are normally main dance and cheerleading competitions held in March that increase attendance on the parks and occupancy on the lodges, normally the All Stars and Coronado Springs. Right here’s what was on the calendar on the ESPN Vast World of Sports activities:

• Youth Flag Soccer World Championships: February 28 to March 2, 2025
• The Quest Leisure Championship: March 7-8, 2025
• UCA/UDA All Star Nationwide Championship: March 8-9, 2025
• Disney Spring Coaching: March 10 to April 20, 2025.

All of those are massive occasions. Specifically, the Youth Flag Soccer Championship describes itself as “one of many largest youth flag soccer tournaments in historical past with over 700 groups and eight,000 athletes! Over 2,500 video games will likely be performed with a lot of the motion streaming stay on ESPN+.” That’s a whole lot of members, and remember that only a few of those athletes (who’re kids) will journey alone. Most include households, so there’s a multiplier on that 8,000 that in all probability will increase the general attendees to someplace round 20,000 (give or take).

Nonetheless, the precise influence of youth sporting occasions on crowd ranges is debatable. If you find yourself on the identical lodge as them or behind a big group of cheerleaders in line or in the identical Haunted Mansion stretching room as them, your notion of them will possible be very completely different than somebody who stays at a special lodge and solely encounters small numbers of them in passing. We converse from expertise (together with that very particular Haunted Mansion instance), and say that that is usually not one thing about which you have to be involved.

Talking of athletic occasions, on a constructive word, there isn’t a runDisney race in March 2025. The Princess Half Marathon is in late February, and the Springtime Shock is in early April. Neither have any influence on crowds in March. One other win!

Then there are the general public occasions held throughout the month at Walt Disney World. The EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant will kick off on March 5, 2025 and run all through the month and thru June 2, 2025. This can spike ‘seems like’ crowds at EPCOT, because it’s an enormous draw for locals who present up particularly for the occasion–to see the floral shows, eat meals, and purchase merchandise.

One factor locals usually don’t do–or do disproportionately lower than vacationers–is rides. Consequently, congestion at EPCOT is larger however wait instances typically should not. Locals additionally go to EPCOT disproportionately at the beginning of occasions, on weekends and after work. Which means that some dates in early March 2025 recognized under as nice instances to go to received’t be so nice for EPCOT congestion or seems like crowds. Simply one thing to bear in mind as you intend your days (or instances of day) in every park!

No matter whether or not you’re into gardening (I’m not) that is occasion has the park wanting pretty. The flower tapestry by the Creativeness pavilion, between Future World and World Showcase is extremely picturesque, as are the numerous topiaries across the park. There’s far more than that, all of which you’ll be able to examine in our Information to EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant.

Lastly, there’s After Hours at Magic Kingdom and After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. These happen sporadically and, because the names recommend, are held after park closing. They’ve minimal influence on daytime crowd ranges, however end in a slight bump in crowds throughout the night ‘mix-in’ time.

We don’t suggest altering your plans due to After Hours at Magic Kingdom, however you may wish to do DHS on a special night. Usually, that park is nice for decrease wait instances on the finish of the night time, albeit to a lesser diploma on After Hours dates.

Park Hours for March are normally fairly good. Walt Disney World has quietly been extending these, with Magic Kingdom now closing later and the opposite 3 parks opening earlier in consequence. In fact, there’s a cause for this: spring break attendance forecasts!

March REFURBISHMENTS & NEW ATTRACTIONS

By way of points of interest that will likely be closed throughout March 2025, examine the Walt Disney World Refurbishment Schedule. There will likely be a number of experience closures this spring, the largest of that are Check Monitor and Large Thunder Mountain Railroad. The latter is closed till 2026 for a whole retrack.

The previous is at the moment closed for the Check Monitor 3.0 Experience Reimagining. This fan-favorite thrill experience is receiving an replace impressed by World of Movement, and went down for that work in mid-June. Walt Disney World hasn’t introduced a reopening date, however work seems nowhere close to completed and the present timeframe is Late Summer time 2025 is the goal. Our expectation is that it reopens someday between the second half of July and October 1, 2025.

In any other case, not a lot must be closed in March 2025, as Walt Disney World tries to wrap up winter refurbishment season earlier than Spring Break rolls round. Extra excellent news: Walt Disney World is not a veritable development zone, as most main tasks have now wrapped up and the subsequent growth cycle is simply beginning to start however doesn’t but influence the visitor expertise. The entrance of EPCOT is not a sea of development partitions with a large filth pit within the center, however Animal Kingdom will likely be beginning to ramp up tasks.

The largest new additions at Walt Disney World are each in Magic Kingdom: Tiana’s Bayou Journey and TRON Lightcycle Run. Each points of interest will provide a standby line as of March 2025 (ditching their digital queues), in addition to Lightning Lane line-skipping–as do virtually all fashionable points of interest at Walt Disney World. We extremely suggest consulting our Information to Lightning Lane Single & MultiPass at Walt Disney World & FAQ for every part that you must know.

On the subject of new additions for 2025, the dangerous information is that completely nothing will likely be open by March 2025. Disney Starlight Night time Parade, Villains Unfairly Ever After, Little Mermaid: A Musical Journey, and the reimagined Check Monitor all are slated for summer season debuts. On the plus aspect, when you’re doing a bigger-picture Orlando journey, you may get fortunate with mushy openings of Common’s Epic Universe. However even that may be a longshot except you’re visiting later within the month.

For an outline of what else is on the horizon, see What’s New & Subsequent at Walt Disney World in 2025.

March 2025 DISNEY WORLD CROWD CALENDAR

We’ll begin this free crowd calendar part with the identical preface as different months—skip forward a couple of paragraphs when you’ve already learn it. Questioning why you don’t see a color-coded crowd calendar right here? It’s as a result of we don’t actually belief them anymore and don’t assume it’s best to, both. If we simply had a visible crowd calendar graphic right here, lots of you’d solely take a look at that and never learn the accompanying rationalization that covers what you may truly count on. That’d be doing you a disservice.

Whereas they are often helpful instruments, crowd calendars are one small piece of a a lot bigger puzzle. We not select our personal Disney journey dates based mostly completely upon crowd calendars and we’d likewise discourage you from doing so. Crowd calendars are more and more much less dependable due to the way in which Disney manipulates attendance patterns, staffing, closures, and experience capability.

Walt Disney World doesn’t launch official attendance numbers, so crowd calendars make the most of information like college schedules, airport visitors statistics, lodge pricing & occupancy, and different indicators as proxies for crowds. For years, this method labored and made crowd calendars dependable. Walt Disney World attendance adopted an identifiable sample that tracked with the aforementioned proxies.

Extra not too long ago, wait instances don’t at all times mirror precise crowds as a result of Disney has develop into adept and extra refined at manipulating each attendance and crowd movement. Consider this because the distinction between the precise temperature and the “seems like” temperature, however with crowds. We are able to nonetheless precise crowd and attendance patterns, however not wait instances. The latter are what most of you possible care about (the “seems like” crowds), but it surely’s tougher to precisely forecast wait instances through Walt Disney World crowd calendars.

We’ll begin with some dangerous information, which is that predicting crowds for the primary half of March 2025 goes to be difficult. Usually, this may be a good time to go to as a result of it’s a lull in crowds. After Mid-Winter Break and Presidents’ Day, however earlier than Spring Break.

Nevertheless, there are two issues you have to be conscious of in terms of March 2025. The primary is Mardi Gras. This will not seem to be an enormous deal to you, however because of the proximity of Louisiana to Florida it very a lot is. As such, avoiding the dates main as much as March 4, 2025 is advisable.

Which means that, in contrast to most years when it’s one in all our favourite timeframes, the primary week of March is NOT a good time to go to in 2025. Mardi Gras crowds ought to begin heading dwelling by Saturday, however we’d suggest avoiding March 1-7, 2025. There’s a excessive likelihood that crowds that week are considerably worse than regular–doubtlessly within the 7/10 to 9/10 vary.

Compounding issues is the aforementioned youth sporting occasions on the ESPN Vast World of Sports activities. Most of these attendees will arrive early and go to the parks within the week main as much as their weekend occasions. Accordingly, that Saturday and Sunday (March 8-9, 2025) shouldn’t be bonkers busy, however crowd ranges will likely be reasonable or above (5/10 to 7/10).

The opposite wildcard is that the bottom tier of Walt Disney World Annual Passes will likely be blocked out March 15-23, 2025. It’s typically the case that weeklong blockouts like this end in locals transferring ahead visits to “get their Disney repair” earlier than the blockout begins. That’s precisely what we noticed in 2024–and the end result was the times main as much as the blockout have been among the many worst of the Spring Break season.

Nevertheless, there have been a few key variations, the primary and largest being that the blockout was twice as lengthy as a result of Orange County’s Spring Break and Easter occurring in consecutive weeks. The second is that extra college districts within the Midwest, Canada, Northeast, and elsewhere had that week off. There have been additionally one-off particular occasions, in addition to ticket offers that in all probability won’t be repeated in lieu of final 12 months.

As such, we’re not anticipating a repeat of this in 2025–and are recommending March 8-13, 2025 as probably the greatest weeks of spring. See our listing of the 10 Finest & Worst Weeks to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025 & 2026 for extra suggestions.

This is kind of regular, reflecting the lull between the favored Presidents’ Day and Mardi Gras holidays in late February and the beginning of Spring Break season in mid-March. Weekends will likely be busier, particularly when the climate is good.

Following that, count on the Spring Break ‘season’ to unofficially kick off on March 14, 2025. It is because that’s the Friday a number of college districts in Central Florida (and past) will begin their recesses. However actually, Orlando-area districts are all that issues that early on–anybody touring from out of state received’t be within the parks that Friday.

Up to now, the beginning of Orange County’s Spring Break has been one of many worst weeks of the 12 months. That was not the case final 12 months as a result of a mix of the AP blockout in addition to blockouts on the ticket offers, together with considerably larger costs for tickets and exclusions for varied different reductions. Unsurprisingly, all of that had the impact of constructing Central Florida’s Spring Break much less busy within the parks.

This 12 months already looks as if it’s shaping as much as be busier. Walt Disney World has launched a Florida resident ticket deal for Winter and Spring 2025–and it’s not blocked out for this week. It does require reservations, so whether or not these are capped at a significant stage is what is going to possible be outcome-determinative for crowds. Our guess is that Walt Disney World realized from final 12 months’s errors and this week finally ends up being very busy once more in 2025.

Because of Orange County and different Central Florida college districts having their Spring Breaks (together with scholar breaks and weekends), March 14-23, 2025 must be fairly busy.

Nevertheless, the aforementioned AP blockouts for all however in the future in that vary ought to assist to not less than partially offset that. We’re now anticipating barely excessive crowds (round 7/10 to eight/10) however not peak season ones. Quite a bit hinges on reservation availability through the ticket deal, which so far seems pretty unrestricted.

Crowds received’t let up the subsequent week, both. Though it’s a far much less frequent break for Florida college districts, many Midwest and Northeast colleges have the final week of the month off. On prime of that, APs aren’t blocked out. Consequently, March 24-30, 2025 will likely be among the many busiest of the season. Not Easter week dangerous, however one other 7/10 to eight/10 week.

To that time, when you’re wanting a silver lining, not less than Easter isn’t till late April 2025! Even with fewer pockets of low crowds, March 2025 as a complete received’t be as busy as final 12 months. The one true 10/10 week of Spring Break is Easter, and that’s virtually a full month later in 2025.

In truth, given how Spring Break is extra diluted this 12 months, we wouldn’t be shocked if few–if any–dates in March 2025 even hit 9/10 crowd ranges. That’s excellent news, because the distinction between 7/10 crowds and 10/10 crowds may be a lot worse than the distinction between 4/10 crowds and seven/10 crowds.

March PRICING & DISCOUNTS

Because of Spring Breaks being pretty frequent in March, you usually received’t discover a lot in the way in which of outstanding promotions in a standard 12 months. See All Present Walt Disney World Reductions for specifics.

Nevertheless, “good” is a relative time period when describing these reductions, as March is above common by way of rack charges and ticket costs. Even a higher-than-normal share off an astronomical value remains to be a excessive value!

For lodges, a lot of the month is peak season, which is strictly as costly because it sounds. Solely vacation pricing is worse. For tickets, the pricing isn’t as dangerous, but it surely’s nonetheless removed from the low season by way of per-day pricing.

General, March is a story of two months–but additionally a month on the rise. Usually, the final week of February/first week of March is likely one of the 12 months’s “candy spots” for planning a trip. In truth, we find it irresistible a lot that it’s one of many prime weeks of the 12 months on our aforementioned rankings. The timing of Mardi Gras implies that received’t be the case in March 2025, and people main youth occasions that aren’t usually horrible on their very own may flip barely above-average crowds into excessive ones.

The excellent news is that the second week–not less than, most of it–must be fairly good. There’s a cause that window ranks so extremely–and it’s not simply that the wait instances are low. March usually provides nice climate, longer hours, and the beginning of the spring bloom with Flower & Backyard Pageant starting. After that, March’s attractiveness deteriorates, however even later within the month, I nonetheless assume the climate goes an extended approach to compensate for crowds.

To that time, earlier than you freak out about heavy crowds, do not forget that higher climate and in addition the chance of prolonged hours. You possibly can nonetheless beat the crowds when you arrive early, take a noon break, and keep late. Savvy technique, robust use of Early Entry & rope drop, our step-by-step itineraries, and staying late might help overcome crowds. That’s even earlier than shopping for Lightning Lanes, which is clearly advantageous throughout Spring Break season. You possibly can at all times beat dangerous crowds–however the identical isn’t true with depressing climate!

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YOUR THOUGHTS

Do you agree or disagree with our ideas on March at Walt Disney World? Have you ever executed Walt Disney World throughout Spring Break earlier than? Do you assume it’s or dangerous time to go to? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions about your experiences is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas or questions under within the feedback!