2025 Disney World Week Rankings
By Dave Shute
OVERVIEW: THE BEST TIMES IN 2025 TO VISIT WALT DISNEY WORLD
The rankings of times to visit Walt Disney World in 2025 that follow are designed for first time visitors who do not know whether or not they will return.
For visitors on a return trip or first timers who know they will return, less concerned about ride closures or the peak of the hurricane season, the later January, early February, and August and September weeks would be ranked much higher.
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The rankings are in calendar order in the image above. In the discussion below, for each group, they are in rank order within that group. Near the end of the post I have an image of the full year in rank order.
These week rankings are based on my 2025 Disney World Crowd Calendar, on Disney World’s 2025 resort hotel price seasons, and on Disney World’s 2025 ticket price calendar.
Other factors are key as well–the holiday program, ride closure season and hurricane season in particular.
For more on how I build these rankings–although it’s old, it still is mostly I do it–see this. And for how prices work in the rankings, see the note at the very bottom of this page
RECOMMENDED 2025 WEEKS AT DISNEY WORLD, RANKED IN ORDER
The nine recommended weeks that follow are the best weeks to visit Walt Disney World in 2025 for first time visitors who may never return. They are lower crowd weeks that are not in the peak hurricane or ride closure seasons.
The top two weeks have the full Disney World holiday program, which is astonishingly good, and the third week has some of it. The rest are largely in later spring and early November.
2025 WEEKS I’M LESS KEEN ON
Weeks 10-28 all have moderate crowd levels, with different prices and weather. I’ve divided them into two groups based on predicted crowds, and within the groups those with some or all of the holiday program come at the head of the list.
The first set of weeks I’m less keen on–10 through 20 in my rankings–all have “moderate-minus” crowd ratings, and avoid the peak hurricane and ride closure seasons.
With good plans, all of these are manageable by first time visitors who may never return. The main problem is that this group includes so many summer dates. Those who can should avoid the heat and humidity of the summer at Disney World…
The next set of weeks I’m not so keen on is weeks 21-28. These also avoid the peak hurricane and ride closure seasons, but have somewhat higher forecast crowds than weeks 10-20, at moderate and moderate-plus levels.
I don’t recommend weeks 21-28 for first time visitors, but if you have to pick one, with good plans they are quite manageable. They are also fine for returning visitors.
In the next group, weeks 29-38 have one thing in common: while low or moderate crowd weeks, they all occur during the peak of the hurricane season. Hurricanes are rare and even more rarely affect a Disney World vacation, but for first-timers who may never return, why not just avoid the risk?
For returning visitors, though, the low-crowd, lower price weeks that can be found among this group–especially weeks 29-36–can be, with weather luck, wonderful times to visit.
2025 WEEKS TO AVOID AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
There’s two groups of weeks to avoid in 2025: high crowd weeks and weeks when some rides are often closed.
The first group, weeks ranked 39-46, should be avoided because of crowds that traditionally range from high to unbelievable.
This group includes many of the busy March and April spring break weeks, and the busiest holiday weeks—President’s Day week, Thanksgiving week, and the weeks around Christmas.
The next group includes the January and early February 2025 weeks when some rides are sometimes closed for repair or refurbishment—weeks 47-52.
Some of these weeks have among the lowest crowds and lowest prices of the year. However, this is the peak time for ride closures at Walt Disney World, especially the January weeks.
If this may be your only family visit, why go when you know likely a few of the best of Disney World will probably be closed?
2025 WEEKS AT DISNEY WORLD, RANKED IN ORDER
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A NOTE ON 2025 PRICING
Traditionally, I have sorted among weeks with similar crowd predictions based first on the holiday program, and then on prices, most recently treating the average of resort prices equally with ticket prices.
This however does not work precisely given the wide variation between hotel prices in the three hotel price classes. For example, if you sum these prices (for longer trips and a four person family),
- At a value resort, across the year on average tickets cost 2/3 of the total, and lodging just 1/3
- At a moderate resort, tickets and lodging each cost about half
- At a deluxe resort, tickets cost about 1/3 the total, and lodging 2/3
So the price part of week rankings matches best the moderate resorts. Those staying in deluxes or values may want to look at the actual price rankings I give in the images for the various weeks by resort class.
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