In this post, we discuss visiting Disney World in March. 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 in the heart of spring break season. Read on to learn all about visiting Walt Disney World in March!

QUICK THOUGHTS ON March 2025

We’ll start with quick thoughts on March 2025 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, for the record, is April 20, 2024).

Disney World Crowds In March

Our 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.

In general, March is the busiest month at Walt Disney World. It’s the heart of spring break in the United States, and the weather makes March visits more appealing than visits during either summer or winter breaks. Honestly—all you’re going to hear in this post is “spring break spring break SPRING. BREAK.” because that’s what the month is.

That’s it. Expect high crowds. Expect high crowds all month. There will be occasional low days—crowd trends have some randomness—but they’re hard to predict (fine…the first few days of the month might be quieter than the rest of the month).

If you must see a crowd calendar, the one we trust most is over at WDW Prep School.

Disney World Events In March

ESPN Wide World of Sports hosts a few athletic events in March, with two events already on the 2025 calendar:

February 28 - March 2, 2025 — Youth Flag Football World Championships
March 10 - April 20, 2025 — Disney Spring Training

But these events are hosted now for the same reason that crowds are high anyways—spring break. These events don’t make the crowds any worse, they’re just part of the same trend. Generally, these events bring increased crowds to the value resorts, particularly All Star Sports.

Spring break season is all month. Schools in the United States typically give students a week off in either March or April, with March begin the peak of spring break. This causes crowds to be high at Walt Disney World all month.

At Epcot, March marks the start of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. In 2024 the festival began February 28 and continued until May 27, 2024. You can view the Epcot Festival Calendar here.

Disney World Prices In March

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 2025 hotel rate table at MouseSavers.

Here’s a table showing how hotel prices at All Star Movies, Port Orleans Riverside, and Contemporary fluctuate throughout the year:

March marks the start of Spring Break and continues peak season of the year at Walt Disney World. Prices are above average the entire month. With Easter in late April in 2025, March escapes the worst of the spring prices.

For those example hotels, March is the second most expensive month of the year at All Star Movies ($234 average March night v. $212 average for the year), third most expensive at Port Orleans Riverside ($380 v. $361), and fifth most expensive at Contemporary ($647 v. $736).

A late Easter means that prices actually drop toward the end of March, as there’s a lull between Spring Break and Easter demand. Here’s a graph of pricing within the month at All Star Movies, Port Orleans Riverside, and Contemporary:

Disney World March Deals and Discounts

For 2025, package and room only discounts including March were made available October 1, 2024.

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

While March might start the month with a few refurbishment holdovers from winter, it is peak season and thus rarely sees substantial refurbishments. In any case, you will want to check our Walt Disney World construction / refurbishment calendar for the latest.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Magic Kingdom) will be closed all month (and until 2026) for refurbishment.

Test Track (Epcot) closed for a large refurbishment / reimagining beginning June 17, 2024. Reopening is set for “Late 2025,” so we expect it to remain closed throughout March.

Kali River Rapids (Animal Kingdom) will close for refurbishment beginning January 6, 2025. No end date has been announced, but the annual refurbishment typically goes into mid-March.

Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros (Epcot) will close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025, and is expected to reopen on March 15, 2025.

Astro Orbiter (Magic Kingdom) will be temporarily closed for refurbishment beginning January 13, 2025, and is planned to reopen in the “summer of 2025.”

Stormalong Bay, the feature pool at Yacht Club and Beach Club will be closed “from January 2025 through June 2025” (specific dates not yet available). During this time we recommend staying at BoardWalk Inn rather than either of these two hotels.

Work will be ongoing in Dinoland USA (Animal Kingdom), with TriceraTop Spin, Fossil Fun Games, Chester & Hester's Dinosaur Treasures having closed permanently in January.

Historically, Splash Mountain would often close during this timeframe too, but we suspect Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will remain open for its first winter season.

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). In 2024, Typhoon Lagoon reopened March 17, 2024. Blizzard Beach began its annual refurbishment closure on that same day.

If temperatures are cool enough, water parks can close, even in March. If you’re planning to visit a water park, you should at least have a backup plan (read about things to do at Disney World outside the parks).

Disney World Weather In March

March is probably one of the best months for weather at Walt Disney World. The average March high is 79F (26C) and the average low is 56F (13C)—not too hot, not too cold.

Rain is relatively rare in this season, with only around nine 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

March can see cold days, hot days, or great days in between. Rather than spend too much time repeating the content of other posts, I’m going to send you back to February if you want to read about cold, and forward to May if you want to read about heat.

Rain is always worth talking about, though. 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.

February / March / April

As a closing note, let’s compare March to its neighboring months.

Should I Visit Walt Disney World in February or March?

March has high crowds, but it also has a lot going for it. Flower & Garden Festival typically starts early March, and the weather is more temperate and less cold in March compared to February.

And while March crowds are bad…February hasn’t been great recently, either. This is sort of “devil you know…” territory. If you (and Disney) go into March expecting high crowds, rather than dealing with the unpredictable nature of February, it might make for an overall better experience.

Should I Visit Walt Disney World in March or April?

In 2025, Easter will fall on Sunday, April 20. This means we can expect a lengthy spring vacation season from early March until late April. Generally, I’d expect the first week of March and the last week of April to be the best times to visit during this season. In between, expect high spring crowds.

Should I visit Walt Disney World In March?

March has two things going for it—weather and Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival. Well, also probably your kid’s spring break, which is how you wound up here in the first place.

Against it—crowds. If you can avoid the March crowds in favor of late April, then sure, avoid March. But if you’re on an academic vacation calendar, then you’re comparing March to other peak dates (like December and June) or the painful heat of summer.

One thing to note is that March’s high crowds typically aren’t disastrously high. This isn’t Christmas week. Your planning will be tougher, but I’d still expect to have a great time if I put the work in.

Have you visiting Walt Disney World in March? What did you think?

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