Note that the Mickey Mouse meet & greet appears twice because it started the month as “Meet Mickey” and is now “Meet Mickey & Minnie.” Despite lower crowd levels, the duo is pulling a higher wait time by 11 minutes.
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It’s a “tale of two crowd levels” at Magic Kingdom, with full operating days (9 am to 11 pm) being in the ~4/10 or 5/10 range and days of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party being 1/10. With one week left in August, it’ll be interesting to see whether wait times fall enough to make this the least busy month of 2022 at Walt Disney World (so far).įor park by park analysis, we’ll start with Magic Kingdom. Now that schools are starting to go back into session, it’s likely these numbers will drop even further. Individual days illustrate mostly the same, but with more bars. That month started slow and got progressively busier, whereas August is on a downward trajectory. With the week by week view, we can see that wait times started higher at the beginning of the month, and have dropped during the last two weeks.Īgain, this mirrors May–but in reverse. The average wait time across all attractions at Walt Disney World is now 38 minutes–identical to May. We’ll start with the monthly numbers for Walt Disney World as a whole.Īfter peaking in June, summer crowds declined in July and that trend has continued in August. But before we get to the forward-looking predictions, let’s take a look backwards at August 2022 thus far.Īs always, all graphs and wait time stats are courtesy of : Our expectation is that these numbers will increase going forward (for the reasons discussed in that post), but they should remain low. Thus far, the daytime hours before Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom have ranged from 1/10 to 2/10 on the crowd calendar. This is something we already covered last week in Magic Kingdom’s Third Slowest Day of 2022!The title pretty much says it all, but the post is worth skimming if you’re somehow still on the fence about doing MK on MNSSHP days. In addition to that, the 2022 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party is now underway, bringing shorter operating hours to Magic Kingdom for regular guests on those evenings. Major school districts going back into session resulted in lower wait times, a trend that has accelerated since mid-month when Osceola and Orange Counties in Central Florida started their new academic years. This wait times report covers ride & daily data for last month at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom, while also offering commentary and predictions for September 2022.īy way of recap, crowds have followed a familiar pattern this month, with August starting out busier as summer wrapped up, with locals and tourists making their last visits before vacation season came to an end.
Schools throughout Florida and other Southern states are back in session, unofficially ushering in the off-season. Like clockwork, early fall crowds are falling at Walt Disney World.