Our information to June 2024 at Walt Disney World features a free crowd calendar, when to go to & keep away from, climate, new attraction openings & closures, and summer time occasions. Plus information & suggestions for trip season at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. (Up to date Might 23, 2024.)
June is the primary month of summer time trip and storm season at Walt Disney World. It’s not precisely our favourite month of the 12 months for visiting, however for individuals who are restricted to touring in the course of the instances college is out of session, early June isn’t that dangerous. It’s definitely higher than your entire month of July, and August till late within the month. Let’s cowl each the nice and the dangerous right here.
Usually, Walt Disney World parks keep open later in the course of the top of summer time than Might or August by September. That was not the case final 12 months, however extensions have already began for each park besides EPCOT in the course of the first half of June 2024. We’re anticipating extra of the identical for the remainder of the month and July.
The opening instances at EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom make it simpler to beat crowds at these parks than it has been in a very long time. There’s an enormous benefit to early risers, and savvy technique or advanced-level know-how with Genie+ and Lightning Lanes is usually a gamechanger.
To that finish, we (as soon as once more) advocate trying out Genie+ v. Savvy Technique at Walt Disney World, which is the results of intensive ‘testing’ to find out the most effective and worst methods to beat the crowds. You can too do fairly properly within the evenings at Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Frankly, that technique is way extra helpful than our June 2024 crowd calendar for Walt Disney World.
June Climate at Disney World
The largest draw back to June from our perspective isn’t the crowds–it’s the rain and the warmth. June receives the very best quantity of common month-to-month rainfall (8+ inches) out of any month of the 12 months. As such, you might wish to seek the advice of our Visiting Walt Disney World Throughout Storm Season article to navigate the afternoon showers (or worse) with out them placing an excessive amount of of a damper in your journey.
You’ll wish to pack an affordable 10-pack of ponchos so that you aren’t one of many visitors who line as much as buy Disney’s overpriced ponchos when the rain hits. (Whereas a budget, disposable ponchos are good, given how a lot it’ll rain in June, this rainsuit is a greater choice, and one I like to recommend. I’ve it, and discover myself much less involved concerning the rain as a result of I keep dry regardless.)
The excellent news is that regardless of the rain, June doesn’t fall inside the coronary heart of hurricane season at Walt Disney World. Summer season warmth is an even bigger concern throughout June, with common temperatures starting from 70 levels to 90 levels. By way of the consolation degree, on common, 35% is comfy (65-75 levels), 56% is heat (75-85 levels), and 23% of the month is sizzling (85-100 levels).
Probably the most disagreeable instances of the day are going to be round midday till 5 p.m., so reserving a Walt Disney World lodge with a pleasant pool (it’s the proper time for Yacht and Seashore Membership!) and planning every day noon breaks with park time primarily within the mornings and evenings is usually a sound technique. In the event you don’t wish to spend your whole day hiding within the air con, learn our Methods for Beating Summer season Warmth & Humidity at Walt Disney World.
Setting apart the climate, June at Walt Disney World has some upside. That’s type of like saying, “setting apart their man-eating tendencies, sharks make nice pets.” Fairly huge issues to simply put aside. However, let’s attempt to be considerably optimistic…
June Particular Occasions at WDW
As for particular occasions, there’s usually not a lot for the summer time season. There are not any runDisney occasions because of the warmth, little occurs on the ESPN Huge World of Sports activities for a similar cause, and there are not any main holidays in June which are celebrated within the parks. All in all, it’s a fairly sluggish month on the seasonal entrance.
For the final a number of years, EPCOT has had overlapping festivals in summer time, with each Flower & Backyard Competition operating by early July and Meals & Wine Competition beginning shortly thereafter. Not so in 2024. Each occasions have been scaled again to “2019 regular” and now both will run in June or July. It’s two-plus months of Weight loss plan EPCOT!
With that mentioned, loads is coming for Summer season 2024, beginning exterior the parks with the “Disney Desires That Soar” drone present at Disney Springs. This takes to the sky beginning Might 24 and can run for your entire month of June. If the sneak peek previews are any indication, that is destination-worthy nighttime leisure that’s definitely worth the detour to Disney Springs to see. We extremely advocate it!
Bouncing again to the parks, the ¡Celebración Encanto! Sing-Alongside at EPCOT opens on June 10, 2024. Together with this, CommuniCore Corridor will lastly open and greet visitors on that very same date.
Then there’s the Lion King thirtieth Anniversary Celebration Coming to Animal Kingdom in Summer season 2024. As introduced, this isn’t actually something. Merchandise, meals, characters, and possibly some photograph ops.
Subsequent up is Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the place you’ll be capable to get into your feels with Pleasure herself! She’s headed to Pixar Plaza beginning June 10, the place she joins different Pixar stars. She’ll be in her new dwelling simply in time for Disney Pixar’s “Inside Out 2,” which premieres in theaters June 14, 2024.
Of the 4 parks, the final and largest cease is Magic Kingdom, the place Tiana’s Bayou Journey is opening on June 28, 2024. Previous to that, there shall be a pair weeks of previews with the potential for delicate openings within the week or so earlier than the trip formally openings. (Whereas potential, we don’t count on delicate openings–they’re unlikely as a result of timing.)
June REFURBISHMENTS & NEW ATTRACTIONS
By way of different points of interest, examine the Walt Disney World Refurbishment Schedule. Only a heads up: that is perhaps a bit misleading by way of precise development work. There’s going to be loads of ongoing development all through Walt Disney World that’s not mirrored there.
The largest factor on the horizon is Check Monitor closing for a multi-month reimagining on June 17, 2024. A reopening date has not but been introduced, however it’s unlikely to return any time this 12 months. We’re anticipating it to reopen for Spring Break 2025 on the earliest.
And as famous above, Tiana’s Bayou Journey opens on June 28, that means that it’s closed for almost all of June.
On the plus facet, EPCOT is dwelling to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, which is now a pair years outdated however nonetheless extremely in style. Different much more current additions to EPCOT embody Moana’s Journey of Water (water exploration path) and Luminous: The Symphony of Us (nighttime spectacular). Each are value trying out.
Then there’s the most important new attraction at Magic Kingdom: TRON Lightcycle Run. That is nonetheless the latest main attraction at Walt Disney World (for now), and is now one 12 months outdated. See our Digital Queue Technique Information for TRON Lightcycle Run for particulars, suggestions & methods for fulfillment, and extra (Cosmic Rewind additionally makes use of a VQ–apply the identical recommendation to each rides).
One other different for Cosmic Rewind or TRON Lightcycle Run is shopping for line-skipping entry by way of the Particular person Lightning Lanes. These posts clarify every choice, their execs & cons, and the whole lot else it’s essential to know. Suffice to say, don’t simply present up anticipating to hitch the standby line–as there isn’t one for both trip.
For an outline of what’s on the horizon, see What’s New & Subsequent at Walt Disney World in 2024 & Past. All in all, June is a fairly large month for Walt Disney World, with plenty of new or current additions.
June 2024 DISNEY WORLD CROWD CALENDAR
There’s no color-coded crowd calendar for June 2024 since you can’t put a lot inventory in them anymore. Crowd calendars are much less and fewer dependable as a result of how Walt Disney World manipulates attendance patterns, staffing, closures, and trip capability. This has been more and more true for the final a number of years.
It additionally doesn’t assist that there isn’t actually dependable information or constant tendencies for the summer time months. To make certain, some days and weeks are busier than others–however there are not any dates in June which are akin to spring break or different peak season dates–and even low season dates. It’s a reasonably constant timeframe. Because of this, it higher serves readers to supply a proof of what to anticipate by way of crowd tendencies in Summer season 2024 at Walt Disney World.
Within the final a number of regular years (2016-2019), summer time crowds had trended downward at Walt Disney World (see “Summer season Isn’t Peak Season at Walt Disney World” for extra on that). That occurred as soon as once more final 12 months, and we’d count on it once more in Summer season 2024.
Pent-up demand has been really fizzling out and People are not “making up for misplaced time” on the subject of journey. Worldwide demand has additionally slowed down, in order that received’t make June 2024 atypically busy. It’s unlikely it’ll be as sluggish as a number of years in the past, but in addition unlikely to be as dangerous as 2022. Someplace in between is the almost definitely state of affairs.
What to know for crowd calendar functions is that attendance builds over the course of the summer time as trip season kicks into excessive gear, peaking round mid-July, and slowly subsiding from there. Because of this early June 2024 and mid-August 2024 are the most effective instances to go from a crowd calendar perspective throughout what’s historically thought of summer time trip season.
Nevertheless, virtually all dates in summer time are going to be above common on the group calendar, with spikes round Independence Day, weekends, and different occasions that draw crowds to Orlando. In different phrases, just about all dates are near the identical on the group calendar.
What we are able to say is that crowds peaked final 12 months the week of June 25 and the 12 months earlier than that the week of June 13. There’s been little or no consistency with crowds for the final 5 summers–2018 was the final regular one. The worst of the crowds final 12 months have been really June 19-22, a stretch with 6/10 to eight/10 crowd ranges. Earlier than and after that, crowd ranges have been largely 3/10 to five/10.
Beforehand, the height of summer time is often round Independence Day. Normally, crowds improve till then and reduce after that. There’s additionally typically a ‘final hurrah’ on the finish of July, as households scramble to take summer time holidays earlier than colleges return into session. That truly is one thing that’s continued to happen in the previous few years.
On account of all the additions on June 10, our expectation is that 2024 will peak later–in direction of the top of June and even in early July. There are additionally ticket offers that don’t have aggressive blockout dates, so it’s extremely unlikely that this summer time shall be a repeat of final 12 months when Independence Day was a ghost city (partly as a result of climate–largely as a result of blockouts).
As such, we’d count on to see the bottom crowd ranges from June 1-9, 2024. There must be a slight spike following that for the beginning of the brand new additions, however there’s nothing of adequate scale to actually draw folks to the parks. Tiana’s Bayou Journey would be the huge factor on the finish of June, however the opening date was introduced too late for that to have a right away impression on summer time attendance.
There shall be a rush of Floridians and Disney diehards dashing to see it, however that shall be localized to Magic Kingdom and received’t be sustained. (That means it’s not vacationers who booked last-minute holidays and can spend a number of days in every of the parks.)
Talking of Tiana’s Bayou Journey, we additionally don’t count on the Annual Passholder or Disney Trip Membership previews to have a lot of an impression on crowd ranges. These seldom do, and on this case, APs can attempt from dwelling to hitch the digital queue. In order that they’re solely prone to head to Magic Kingdom in the event that they succeed. Many will do this and possibly one other trip or two and go away.
For every day park suggestions, we’d direct you to Finest & Worst Days to Do All Parks at Walt Disney World. Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT sometimes comply with patterns and selecting the correct (and avoiding the incorrect) days could make a giant distinction, it doesn’t matter what time of 12 months (uncrowded or crowded) that you just go to. Past that, we will see what June and July 2024 maintain!
June Pricing & Reductions
Low cost affords for Walt Disney World trip packages was once meager all through your entire summer time. On account of college being out of session, Walt Disney World had one thing of a captive viewers in the course of the summer time months as many households can solely go to then. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Disney raised rack charges an excessive amount of and now wants particular affords to make costs extra palatable for the common household. You can take a look at the out there choices in Present Walt Disney World Reductions.
To that time, June is close to peak season for many pricing functions. One-day park tickets are costly throughout this month–learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets put up for multi-day ticket suggestions. Accommodations aren’t fairly as dangerous, because it’s the “Summer season” pricing season for them, which is about common, and never practically as dangerous as peak vacation charges.
General, the month of June at Walt Disney World is definitely not a favourite for us. If after studying this, you might have an uneasy “what have I gotten myself into?!” feeling, don’t. In the event you go into the journey ready for what you’re prone to encounter by way of warmth & humidity, have a constructive angle, and with a great technique that lets you roll with the punches, you’ll nonetheless have a fantastic journey.
We go to Walt Disney World each single month of the 12 months, and I can’t say we’ve ever had a dangerous expertise. Positive, we’d quite go in November than June, but when our decisions have been June or nothing (or July or August), we’d select June. The climate isn’t as dangerous and crowds are extra manageable than they was once in the course of the summer time.
It’s all about thoughts over matter, adapting to the circumstances, and planning forward. A part of what these month-by-month guides are about is not only aiding you select a month, but in addition being (over)ready for that month. To that finish, hopefully we’re being useful quite than scary!
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Your Ideas
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