Magic Kingdom remains the most-visited theme park in the world, according to the newly released 2025 TEA Global Experience Index. The annual industry study estimates that Walt Disney World’s original park welcomed 17.8 million visits in 2025, narrowly ahead of Disneyland in California, which recorded approximately 17.4 million. The result preserves Magic Kingdom’s top ranking while showing that attendance at Disney World’s established parks was largely unchanged.
The report, released October 27, estimates that Magic Kingdom attendance declined about 0.2% from 17.836 million visits in 2024 to 17.8 million in 2025. EPCOT ranked eighth worldwide with approximately 12.109 million visits, Disney’s Hollywood Studios ranked tenth with 10.312 million, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom ranked fifteenth with 8.782 million. All four Walt Disney World theme parks were estimated to have experienced roughly the same 0.2% year-over-year decline.
Taken together, those four parks accounted for approximately 49.003 million visits in 2025, compared with 49.102 million the previous year. That is a difference of about 99,000 visits across the resort’s theme parks. The numbers describe a remarkably stable attendance picture rather than a major increase or collapse. They also help distinguish what happened at Disney World from the broader growth recorded across Central Florida’s theme park market.
Universal’s Epic Universe opened in May 2025 and recorded an estimated four million visits during its partial first year. That additional park helped increase combined attendance at the region’s leading theme parks, even as several established parks saw modest declines. Epic Universe did not enter the worldwide top 25, but it ranked thirteenth among North American theme parks. Comparing its partial-year attendance directly with full-year results at other parks would be misleading.
The report also contains a notable Walt Disney World water park result. Disney’s Blizzard Beach recorded approximately 1.35 million visits in 2025, up 50.5% from about 897,000 in 2024. Typhoon Lagoon attracted an estimated 1.762 million visits, making it North America’s most-visited water park. The Blizzard Beach increase should be read in the context of Disney’s operating schedule: both water parks operated during overlapping portions of 2025 after years of alternating availability.
The rankings are compiled by the Themed Entertainment Association with industry research partners. They are widely used as a comparative benchmark, but they are estimates rather than a complete release of Disney’s internal gate counts. Disney does not routinely publish individual annual attendance totals for each Walt Disney World theme park. The figures therefore should not be presented as independently audited Disney admissions data.
Another important distinction is that attendance measures visits, not unique vacationers. Someone who visits Magic Kingdom twice and EPCOT once contributes three park visits, even though only one person made the trip. That is why combining park totals does not tell us how many individual travelers visited Walt Disney World during the year.
Globally, Disney Experiences remained the largest theme park operator, with approximately 146.8 million visits across its portfolio, up 1.1% from 2024. The world’s top 25 theme parks collectively recorded about 245.4 million visits, a slight decline from the previous year. Those figures reinforce the picture of a mature industry in which major new destinations can expand the market while established parks remain relatively steady.
For Walt Disney World, the 2025 report provides a useful baseline as major expansion projects advance at Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. It does not predict what those projects will do to future attendance. What it establishes is that, before their openings, Magic Kingdom still led the world and the resort’s four theme parks together continued to attract roughly 49 million visits annually.