Blizzard Beach Attendance Jumped 50.5% in 2025 While Magic Kingdom Held On as the World's Busiest Park, TEA Report Says

The busiest place at Walt Disney World in 2025 was still Magic Kingdom. The biggest growth story, though, was the water park with a ski jump on top of a man-made mountain. Disney's Blizzard Beach drew about 1.35 million guests last year, up 50.5 percent, according to the 2025 TEA Global Experience Index released on Tuesday, October 27.

The Themed Entertainment Association's report is now in its 20th annual edition. Disney and Universal do not publish park-by-park attendance, so TEA's estimates are the standard yardstick for comparing their parks year to year.

Summit Plummet at Disney's Blizzard Beach. Image: Disney

The Disney World numbers

• Magic Kingdom: 17,800,000, down 0.2 percent. Still No. 1 in the world.
• EPCOT: 12,109,000, down 0.2 percent. No. 8 worldwide.
• Disney's Hollywood Studios: 10,312,000, down 0.2 percent. No. 10 worldwide.
• Disney's Animal Kingdom: 8,782,000, down 0.2 percent. No. 15 worldwide.
• Typhoon Lagoon: 1,762,000, down 3.0 percent. Still the most visited water park in North America.
• Blizzard Beach: 1,350,000, up 50.5 percent from 897,000. No. 4 among North American water parks.

Add the four theme parks together and you get about 49 million visits, roughly 99,000 fewer than in 2024. That is a dip of about 0.2 percent, and the identical 0.2 percent figure at all four parks stands out. Blog Mickey suggests it "likely points to TEA applying a resort-wide estimate across the four parks, since Disney does not share park-by-park figures."

The North American top 20 from the 2025 TEA Global Experience Index. Image: TEA, via WDW News Today

Why Blizzard Beach took off

The reason is the calendar. In 2025, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon operated side by side for the first time in six years, according to WDW News Today. Blog Mickey puts the overlap at May 21 through September 7, 2025. The comparison year was also a low one: the Orlando Sentinel notes the jump of 453,000 guests came after Blizzard Beach closed for refurbishment in the spring and summer of 2024.

That 50.5 percent jump put Blizzard Beach back in the global top 20 water parks at No. 13, per Blog Mickey. Typhoon Lagoon ranked No. 6 worldwide, per WDW News Today.

North America's top 20 water parks in 2025. Image: TEA, via WDW News Today

Magic Kingdom's lead shrank

Magic Kingdom is still the busiest theme park on the planet, but Disneyland Park in California gained ground in 2025. Disneyland grew 0.4 percent to 17,406,000, so the gap between the two narrowed from about 499,000 visits in 2024 to about 394,000 in 2025.

Across all its parks worldwide, Disney Experiences remained the world's top theme park operator with about 146.8 million visits, up 1.1 percent. Blog Mickey also notes that TEA's flat Disney World numbers line up with Disney's own reporting of domestic park attendance down 1 percent in fiscal year 2025.

What TEA says about Disney

The report's commentary on Disney, as quoted by WDW News Today, says "Disney is maintaining healthy attendance while growing capacity, expanding the portfolio, and driving guest spending through continued investment." Blog Mickey ties the flat numbers to comments Disney CFO Hugh Johnston made earlier this year, when he said the U.S. parks are essentially full and that new lands are what will drive real attendance growth. Blog Mickey lists the lands now in the works: Monstropolis at Hollywood Studios, Tropical Americas at Animal Kingdom, and Piston Peak National Park and Villains Land at Magic Kingdom.

In this year's report, the wider Orlando picture belongs to Universal. TEA credits the opening of Epic Universe with helping to "generate an overall 4.3% increase in combined attendance for Central Florida's leading theme parks." So the market grew, while Disney World's four theme parks stayed almost flat, each down just 0.2 percent.

Did you notice the extra room at the water parks in 2025, or did having both open just mean twice the lazy river time? Tell us which one you pick.

Sources

• Themed Entertainment Association, "The Annual TEA Global Experience Index™ Tracks a Changing Global Attractions Landscape, With Water Parks and Museums Outpacing Theme Parks in 2025" (October 27, 2026)
• Blog Mickey, "Disney World Attendance Down Slightly in 2025, Universal Gains with Epic Universe" (October 27, 2026)
• WDW News Today, "Magic Kingdom Remains World's Most-Visited Theme Park, Epic Universe Enters North American Attendance Rankings" (October 27, 2026)
• Theme Park Insider, "Attendance slides at top theme parks worldwide in 2025" (October 27, 2026)
• Orlando Sentinel, "Magic Kingdom is most visited theme park in the world, report says" (October 27, 2026)

Image credits: Disney (Summit Plummet); Themed Entertainment Association 2025 TEA Global Experience Index charts, via WDW News Today.