COLOR-CODED HEAT MAP OF 2025 THEME PARK TICKET PRICES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
I’ve color coded the start dates of the various base ticket lengths from four to ten theme park days in Disney World’s date-based ticket pricing system to indicate less and more expensive ticket dates in 2025, compared to prices in all of 2025. (The basics of how tickets work are at the link above; as is explained in more detail at that link, the lowest priced periods can save a family of four more than a thousand dollars in ticket prices compared to the highest priced periods.)
In what follows, compared to other dates for the same ticket length
- The more and the darker the green, the better the price for the ticket that begins that day
- The more and the darker the red, the worse.
Dates with a white background are everything else–you can think of them as “typical” for that ticket length.
Note the color boundaries. Tickets listed cover anything from seven days including purchase (for four day tickets) to 14 days (for ten day tickets). So if you are using these colors as a proxy for a crowd calendar–which kinda works, though not exactly–when they change from green to red, focus on the shorter length tickets, especially the four day tickets at the left of each column.
I begin with an overview of the year so that you can see the flow of 2025 heat map Disney World ticket price colors in one spot, and then move to three month calendars.
The general pattern is the same as most years:
- Lower prices, indicated by more green, in the typical semester–beginning months of January, early February, and especially later August and September. You’ll also find lighter-green stretches much (but not all) of May, June and July.
- Higher prices/more red during the concentrated school break periods of spring break (early March through late April in 2025), Thanksgiving, and especially the Christmas/New Years holidays. Some tickets that include other typical popular student breaks (e.g. before and after Presidents Day, before Memorial Day, before the 4th of July, and during the fall break period in October centered on Columbus Day) also show red.
Let’s look in more detail at three month heat maps.
JANUARY THROUGH MARCH 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES
January ticket prices begin low, and are low or low-average the rest of the month into early February.
At the end of the first week of February, prices go up, and stay up until the weekend after Presidents Day. (Presidents Day is February 17 in 2025, prices are thus high through the 22nd.)
Prices in late February and early March are average to a little high, and start increasing near the end of the first week of March. Prices are high the rest of March and into April through the weekend after Easter.
APRIL THROUGH JUNE 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES
April prices begin and stay high until the weekend after Easter. The very late Easter in 2025 is April 20, and ticket prices remain high until the weekend after–the weekend of April 26.
Ticket prices then shift to average/lowish until ticket dates begin including Memorial Day weekend. Shorter tickets see higher prices up until the 24th or so (Memorial Day itself is the 26th in 2025).
May prices then end low or low-average. June continues with low prices until around June 24, when prices increase and stay high through July 2 for longer ticket types, and for another week for shorter tickets.
JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES
July ticket prices begin high then shift to low or low average after the Fourth of July. Green then begins to increasingly dominate the heat map, with green in all of August and September, and the lowest ticket prices of the year in the second half of August and the first half of September.
OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2025 DISNEY WORLD TICKET PRICES
October begins with some hints of lower prices and green, but then red quickly takes over until near the end of the month. Average or low average prices return around October 24, continuing to around ticket start dates around November 3.
The rest of the year is a sea of red, with particularly high prices for tickets with use periods that include Thanksgiving week, and tickets whose start date is Saturday December 13 or later.
Note that my work is based on the rounded per-day prices Disney publishes. Prices shown are pre-tax.
You can find exact prices on Disney World’s ticket-buying pages.
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