In this post, we discuss visiting Disney World in April. We cover weather, crowds, holidays, events, refurbishments, and anything else you’d like to know if you were planning a visit to Walt Disney World Resort as Easter and spring break pass and spring sets in. Read on to learn all about visiting Walt Disney World in April!
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Disney World in April (you are here)
If you’ve read our other month-by-month posts, you might notice similarities between this post and some of those. For example, the weather in July and August is basically the same, so our weather sections in those posts are basically the same.
QUICK THOUGHTS ON April 2025
We’ll start with quick thoughts on April 2024 before we dive into details like pricing, holidays, events, weather, and so on.
Above average prices and crowds. Spring Break / Easter season is the second busiest time of year, beaten only by Christmas / New Year’s season. Spring Break / Easter is also less predictable because the exact timing of spring breaks varies so much. Easter is April 20, 2025, which could mean sustained spring break crowds for the bulk of April.
Disney World Crowds In April
Our official position on Walt Disney World crowd calendars is that people often put too much weight into them, but that’s it’s still good to know general trends as well as specific events that impact crowds.
It makes sense to sort of view late February, March, and April as a single “spring” unit for planning purposes. Easter and spring break occur somewhere in there, with the bulk of crowds coming leaving up to and including the week following Easter. Once Easter passes, the remainder of spring has relatively low crowds.
March tends to be a slightly busier month than April, and we expect 2024 to continue this trend. With Easter on April 20, the bulk of Easter / Spring Break crowds won’t pass until the end of April, making the last week the best time to visit in this month.
Once Easter week passes, crowds improve. There are some spring breakers lingering, but in recent memory, late April has been (surprisingly) on the lower of end crowds at Walt Disney World. Along with May, it’s a good time to catch pleasant weather and reasonable crowd levels.
If you must see a crowd calendar, the one we trust most is over at WDW Prep School.
Disney World Events In April
April 20, 2025 is Easter. This will make the season’s peak crowds probably occur between mid-March and April 20.
April 3 - 6, 2025 is the RunDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. This will likely bring some small operational changes, but we don’t typically find race weekends to be a notably bad time to visit.
ESPN Wide World of Sports hosts several athletic events in April (primarily April 24-29 in 2024). Generally, these events bring increased crowds to the value resorts, particularly All Star Sports.
At Epcot, April is the heart of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. In 2024, the festival began February 28, 2024, continuing until May 27, 2024. You can view the Epcot Festival Calendar here.
Easter at Disney World
Easter—April 20, 2025—is not a major holiday at Disney World in the same way that Christmas and Halloween are. While you can expect high crowds and maybe some seasonal merchandise items, it’s mostly business as usual at Walt Disney World.
(2024 Information Follows)
The Disney parks blog discusses the major highlights, including special snacks and elaborate eggs displays at some hotels—Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Yacht & Beach Club in 2024.
Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny have returned to Magic Kingdom for the week leading up to Easter.
Disney World Prices In April (2024 Data)
Disney World’s hotel and ticket prices vary throughout the year. For a more comprehensive look for pricing throughout the year, check out our post on the cheapest time of the calendar year to visit Walt Disney World. You can also visit the 2024 hotel rate table at MouseSavers. Here’s a table showing how hotel prices at All Star Movies, Port Orleans Riverside, Wilderness Lodge, and Yacht Club fluctuate throughout the year:
April prices are basically average for the year. Interestingly, April marks the beginning of a short low season for the value resorts that basically ends once summer arrives. At moderate and deluxe resorts, prices drop further with the start of summer.
In 2024, Easter is on March 31, so Spring Break season is mostly consolidated to March, with prices dropping once Easter passes. Here’s a graph of pricing within the month at All Star Movies, Port Orleans Riverside, Wilderness Lodge, and Yacht Club:
Disney World April Deals and Discounts
April is often split between a winter/spring deal for the first half of the month and a spring/summer discount for the second half of the month. In 2024, a room only discount including April was announced at the start of the year.
Discounts will vary by hotel, room type, and availability. You can see current Disney World offers here. If nothing is available yet, you might also want to check out historical Disney World discount information here.
Refurbishments & New Constructions
Between spring break and summer, April rarely sees substantial refurbishments. In any case, you will want to check our Walt Disney World construction / refurbishment calendar for the latest.
No refurbishments have been announced for April 2025.
Water Park Operations
Disney World has two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, neither of which is open the entire year. After some years of uncertainty, the schedule has seemingly settled down so that each year we have:
Typhoon Lagoon opens / Blizzard Beach closes mid-March
Blizzard Beach opens / Typhoon Lagoon closes early November
This schedule is subject to change (and Disney only announces specific dates about a month in advance, in any case). Most recently, Disney confirmed that Typhoon Lagoon will reopen on March 17, 2024. Blizzard Beach will begin its annual refurbishment closure on that same day. This means we expect Typhoon Lagoon will be the only water park open for the entirety of April.
Closures due to cold weather are rare in April.
Again, check our Walt Disney World construction / refurbishment calendar for the latest.
Disney World Weather In April
April continues March’s beautiful weather. The average April high is 83F (28C) and the average low is 60F (16C). I’d call this “vacation warm” and definitely a far cry from the scorching days coming in July and August.
Rain is relatively rare in this season, with only around six days of rain in the month (comparable to the rest of the year, outside summer). Hurricane season has not yet started. We have a post that talks more broadly about weather at Walt Disney World.
Cold, Heat, and Rain
April can see cold days, hot days, or great days in between. I’m going to send you back to February if you want to read about cold, because it’s a lesser risk, but we’ll talk about heat and rain here.
There are two aspects of this to consider. First, take note of the health risks and be prepared for them. Read up on heatstroke and dehydration.
You can stay hydrated at Disney World easily. There are plenty of drinking fountains, and any quick service restaurant will happily provide you a free cup of water. There are also water bottle refilling stations in all four parks.
The second part of this analysis is how heat will impact your touring strategy. There are a few things to keep in mind.
Rope drop (the start of your day) and Lightning Lanes are more important in the heat because you really don’t want to find yourself standing in an outdoor queue at 2PM. At that hour, you want to either be inside or seated in the shade at an outdoor show.
If you have to wait in line, you prefer to do it at an attraction with a mostly inside queue. Space Mountain, Toy Story Mania, Soarin’, and DINOSAUR are probably the best options in each park.
If you’re staying hydrated (you should be), don’t get into line for a ride with a two-hour wait without confirming with a Cast Member that there’s a restroom in the queue.
Our places to escape the Disney World crowds post might be of interest, because many of those places are also shaded and indoors.
As for rain, we don’t let rain forecasts bother us at Disney World anymore. We prepare for rain—bringing the right shoes and maybe a poncho—but we don’t plan trips around it. Even in months with less rain, you’ll see short spurts of it, and the occasional downpour.
We were at Fort Wilderness during a severe thunderstorm that kept us inside all day (though people who braved the parks got tremendously short waits). This was the relatively dry month of February. And in November 2019 and 2023, we also were on hand for very rainy editions of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, with almost every show rained out.
March / April / May
As a closing note, let’s compare April to its neighboring months. Late February—March—April—early May is really one big “Spring” season at Walt Disney World. Weather is pleasant throughout, Flower and Garden Festival is ongoing, refurbishments are limited.
Really, this three-month period is dictated by Easter and Spring Break crowds, and those crowds tend to be weighted toward mid-March through Easter week. A late Easter will make early March more appealing than most of April. An early Easter gives late April a few more low-crowd weeks.
All this boils down to May being the best time to visit, assuming you can avoid Memorial Day. Because of the April 20 Easter date in 2025, we expect the time from April 22 through about May 22 to be one of the best times of year to visit.
Is April a good time to go to Disney World?
If you can avoid Easter week and the preceding weeks, then April is a great time to visit. The weather is great, Flower & Garden Festival is beautiful, and post-Easter crowds aren’t awful. If your schedule is flexible, I’d push into early May, but late April is good, too.
If you’re visiting earlier in April or near Easter, expect crowds. Presumably if you’ve chosen this time to visit its because academic calendars force you to pick it, in which case your alternatives are the very hot months of July and August or other major holidays, like Christmas.
As with March, April crowds at least are not the impossible-to-plan-around crowds of Christmas week. So if you’re a “never August!” person, then spring break is going to be the best of a crowded set of options.
Have you visiting Walt Disney World in April? What did you think?
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