Our free Might 2025 Disneyland crowd calendar covers the whole lot it’s essential know for selecting the very best days to go to Disney California Journey and Disneyland. This consists of particular occasions, climate, pricing, and naturally, attendance ranges on the parks. (Up to date April 27, 2025.)
The month of Might is normally “shoulder season” at Disneyland, falling between spring break and summer time trip throughout a time when faculties are largely again in session all through the nation. This makes Might 2025 a probably good time to go to Disneyland–not less than, half of Might is an effective time of yr to go to, significantly on weekdays when Grad Nites should not occurring.
The opposite half of Might could be a totally different story because the parks get extra crowded, however not unbearably so. Together with our crowd predictions for Disneyland and Disney California Journey, on this put up we’ll supply different ideas on what to anticipate throughout this month at Disneyland Resort. With that in thoughts, there are a couple of wildcards for Might 2025 that may have an outsized affect on crowds.
First, Magic Key Annual Move gross sales resumed once more in early 2025 and weren’t totally suspended till April 2025. At the same time as revenge journey has been really fizzling out, demand amongst locals is holding sturdy. A lot in order that we anticipated the window for AP gross sales being very temporary–a couple of days or perhaps weeks at most. As an alternative, it lasted a couple of months.
The tip results of that, predictably, has been that Magic Keys have been oversold and now reservation availability is scarce. As of our newest replace, the rest of April is totally booked up. A number of dates all through Might 2025, each weekdays and weekends, are additionally at capability for Annual Passholders. We anticipate this to worsen within the coming weeks.
Second, there’s the 2025 Southern California Resident Disneyland Ticket Deal. This low cost is a lot higher than final yr, seeing a really uncommon value lower–and an enormous one. In a standard yr, the superior financial savings would entice locals who haven’t visited shortly or acquired priced out of Annual Passes to make a return.
This ticket deal runs via Might 15, 2025 with the top date not being coincidental (see beneath). As is generally the case, we anticipate a spike in crowds within the final 1-2 weeks of this deal, as friends rush to reap the benefits of the ultimate days on these “use it or lose it” tickets earlier than they expire. Normally when this occurs, reservation availability is reallocated away from the Magic Key “bucket” to the common tickets “bucket” of park reservations. (Therefore reservation availability for APs worsening within the coming weeks.)
Lastly, there’s the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary Celebration, which runs Might 16, 2025 via Summer season 2026. Right here’s the key items of leisure that’s debuting or returning for this 18-month occasion:
- World of Shade: Happiness
- Paint the Evening Parade
- Wondrous Journeys Fireworks
- Higher Collectively: A Pixar Friends Celebration!
Head over to our Information to the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary Celebration to learn much more element about what’s to return for the large celebration. We now have full particulars about all of that, plus the brand new Walt Disney – A Magical Life stage present that’ll debut for Summer season 2025, and extra!
It’s additionally price noting that there’s a normal public Disneyland seventieth Anniversary Ticket Deal that additionally begins on Might 16, 2025. In principle, this can elevate crowd ranges even additional in the course of the first few months of the celebration, however it’s unclear if that may occur in follow. Except friends purchase the 4-day model of this ticket, the deal isn’t really that good–it’s far worse than the SoCal resident deal. That financial savings disparity might really lead to extra locals making the most of the sooner deal.
With that backdrop set, right here’s what you possibly can anticipate in Might 2025 at Disneyland & Disney California Journey when it comes to the group calendar, climate, refurbishment, particular occasions, closures and new sights…
Might Climate at Disneyland
We’ll begin with a have a look at climate. This part of those posts ought to simply be titled “One other Day of Solar” as a result of that is just about only a thinly-veiled alternative to comment on how Southern California’s climate is perpetually good. For Might, you possibly can anticipate humidity to be low as excessive temperatures hover round 75º many of the month. Lows can be round 55º early within the month, rising to round 60º by the top of Might.
As you possibly can see by the second graph on this web page, Might in Anaheim is snug for many hours of the between midday and 8pm Temperatures are cooler within the morning and drop as soon as the solar goes down, so we advocate packing a sweater or skinny jacket for the night hours. Spring can chilly outdoors the center of the day, and the “appears like” tends to be cooler as a result of lack of humidity.
What’s Taking place in Might 2025 at Disneyland
As already mentioned, the large factor on the horizon is the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary Celebration, which begins on Might 16, 2025. That is clearly the massive occasion for the following 18 months, and that features the second half of the month. Previous to that, it’s mainly ‘refurbishment season’ as Disneyland gears up for the large occasion and tries to get upkeep achieved earlier than the celebration begins.
When it comes to attraction closures, our regularly-updated Disneyland Refurbishment Calendar will cowl the whole lot that’ll be down in the course of the month. Fortunately, numerous the tasks on the checklist wrap up in early Might, however there are some that drag into the center of the month and past. It’s additionally attainable there are a couple of last-minute tasks added to the calendar lasting a couple of days–we’d anticipate most of these to wrap up by Might 16 (or Memorial Day, on the newest).
In any other case, probably the most notable seasonal occasion is the return of Grad Nites at Disney California Journey (and to a lesser diploma, Disneyland). This can be held on choose evenings, and can affect crowds on the dates listed beneath. Because the title suggests, it’s for graduating seniors. (Sorry to anybody desirous to relive their highschool glory days, however it’s not open admission.)
Might 2025 Disneyland Crowd Calendar
Usually, the start of Might has comparatively low to average crowds, because it’s a relative lull between spring break and summer time trip. There’s normally a pre-summer lull, making a lot of Might much less crowded than the months that comply with. Needless to say all of that is in a regular yr.
Final yr, the primary two full weeks averaged crowd ranges of two/10 and the third week was 3/10. That’s top-of-the-line three week stretches of the complete yr, and it adopted equally low post-Easter crowd ranges at Disneyland. Crowds lastly began selecting up on Might 18. Do NOT anticipate one thing related in the course of the Might 2025 shoulder season–the circumstances are completely totally different.
Once more, Might 2025 can be something however regular.
The important thing variations this yr are the extremely aggressive ticket supply that expires on Might 15, 2025. As famous above, we anticipate crowds to spike within the final week or so of this Southern California Resident Ticket Deal. In consequence, you possibly can anticipate elevated crowds from Might 1-15, 2025 that get progressively worse within the second half of that timeframe, particularly Fridays via Sundays.
Yearly, the final couple weeks of this promo see a surge in attendance as locals wish to reap the benefits of the supply earlier than it ends, or use days on tickets they already bought earlier than they expire. We’d anticipate this yr to be no totally different. Primarily based on previous precedent, the worst of the ‘final hurrah’ ticket deal crowds can be round Might 9-15, 2025.
Then on Might 16, the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary Celebration begins.
This can be one other large attendance driver, and needs to be extremely well-liked amongst Annual Passholders. Locals love nighttime leisure, and they’re going to prove in full drive for the return of Paint the Evening Parade and Wondrous Journeys, in addition to the debut of the brand new World of Shade and the whole lot else. The parks can be packed within the evenings, particularly Fridays via Sundays, from Might 16 via the top of the month (and past).
You would possibly observe that we have now divided up these two units of dates (regardless of them being again to again) as a result of the kind of crowds will change. The folks visiting earlier than the seventieth can be rare guests who’re extra centered on sights; the demo after the seventieth begins can be repeat guests much less prone to experience rides.
Accordingly, we totally anticipate daytime wait instances for sights to drop, and possibly fairly considerably, beginning Might 16, 2025. Congestion will improve, particularly for the brand new and returning leisure, however a lot of this is because of locals–lots of whom will arrive after faculty or work and be there primarily for the anniversary choices.
In different phrases, the crowds via Might 15 will contribute much less congestion all through the park, however larger wait instances for rides. As an alternative of wandering round doing nothing or having fun with leisure, they’ll be standing in traces, making these longer. The friends coming Might 16 and past can be disproportionately locals, making for highly-congested walkways (particularly the entrance of the park at night time) however decrease wait instances.
It’s an odd dynamic, however it’s one that just about definitely will play out across the begin of the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary in Might 2025. And that is exactly why we’re much less eager on numerical crowd calendars (all of that are a measure of wait instances versus congestion).
With so many elements in battle and crowds already proving much less predictable this yr, if I have been planning a visit to Disneyland in Summer season 2025 for household or first-time mates, I’d ignore numerical crowd calendars–together with ours–and select based mostly on once they needed to go to based mostly on climate and seasonal occasions, and solely take crowd predictions into consideration as a contributing issue to decide on between units of dates.
Up to now, we advocate as an alternative consulting our 10 Greatest and 10 Worst Weeks to Do Disneyland in 2025 & 2026. In case you’re in search of a handy useful resource for planning a weeklong or so trip to Southern California and wish to know when to go to or keep away from based mostly on crowds & congestion, climate, particular occasions, and extra–look no additional, and take a look at that checklist as an alternative of studying the month-by-month calendars beneath. That checklist emphasizes Disneyland, but additionally takes into consideration seashores, cities, Nationwide Parks, and different well-liked factors of curiosity in California.
Truthfully, I like that useful resource extra than these crowd calendars and ship family and friends that put up versus this when they need assist selecting dates. From my perspective, it’s silly to rely solely on quantitative measures when qualitative elements may be extra make or break. Not solely that, however when you’re a vacationer planning a visit to California, it’s extra useful to have a variety of dates which might be good, versus cherry-picked particular person days.
In case you’ve already decided that you simply’ll go to someday in Summer season 2025, see our checklist of the Greatest & Worst Days of the Week to Do Disneyland to decide on the very best particular person days inside any week. That can be up to date once more shortly after the seventieth begins as a result of that may seemingly trigger one other shift in attendance dynamics.
Past the above generalizations, we’d anticipate the worst crowds & wait instances at Disneyland to be the next dates:
- Might 2-4, 2025 (excessive wait instances)
- Might 9-15, 2025 (excessive wait instances)
- Might 16-19, 2025 (excessive congestion)
Lastly, Might 23-26, 2025 can be busy as a result of Memorial Day. That is the kickoff to summer time season, and will imply each excessive wait instances and excessive congestion. Nonetheless, so far as vacation weekends go, this one isn’t almost as dangerous as numerous them.
Whereas the weekend itself can be busy (similar to any weekend), most faculty districts in Southern California should not out of session till mid-June 2025. That’s additionally across the time Disneyland begins seeing an inflow of vacationers. You can too anticipate the next weekend to be busy (principally congestion round leisure, as locals proceed visits with a purpose to expertise the brand new and returning Disneyland seventieth Anniversary leisure.
Lastly, Grad Nites throw a monkey wrench into crowd ranges all through the month–however that’s nearly an afterthought in Might 2025 given the whole lot else. Grad Nites are one thing of a ceremony of passage for highschool seniors in Southern California, as they take part on this once-in-a-lifetime occasion the place they get to expertise one ultimate night time of highschool reminiscences with their mates earlier than they embark on their new adventures.
In Might 2025, Grad Nites will happen on Might 9, 12, 18, 21, 22, 27, 28, and 30. Usually talking, Grad Nites trigger a spike in crowds on these dates, significantly at Disney California Journey, and most notably later within the day.
Learn our Grad Nites at Disneyland put up for more information and ideas on how these evenings affect crowds and the visitor expertise.
For many of the month, dynamic ticket costs are at “worth” or “common” costs. Likewise, Annual Passholder blockouts are minimal outdoors of regular weekend blockouts, in addition to Memorial Day. Even these elements should not sufficient to trigger a precipitous spike in attendance.
Learn our Ideas for Saving Cash on Disneyland Tickets put up for multi-day ticket suggestions to keep away from having to take care of seasonal pricing. On the plus aspect, there are some multi-day ticket reductions at the moment obtainable for all friends.
So far as resort costs go, charges needs to be pretty common all through the month. We rank our favourite (and least favourite) inns within the Anaheim Resort District in our Disneyland Space Lodge Rankings & Evaluations put up. Try discounted resort + ticket trip packages on Get Away Right now to save cash on off-site inns.
In case you go to on weekends in Might, environment friendly touring plans for Disneyland and Disney California Journey can be important. Even when you throughout weekdays early within the month, having a strong itinerary isn’t a nasty concept. Throughout the board, crowd ranges at Disneyland Resort are larger than they have been a couple of years in the past.
Total, we normally rank Might close to the highest on our checklist of the Greatest & Worst Months to Go to Disneyland. That gained’t be true for Might 2025, particularly given the unpredictability of crowds. The principle purpose for it is because it’s a lull between spring break and summer time seasons, and even the spikes brought on by Grad Nites aren’t sufficient to upset crowd ranges an excessive amount of.
The largest affect on crowds outdoors of that may just about be locals making the most of the SoCal ticket supply on the final minute. In case you can go to earlier within the month on a kind of inexperienced weekdays (and even the yellow ones), you will have a much better expertise–if we solely factored in these days, Might could be top-of-the-line months of the yr to go to!
Planning a Southern California trip? For park admission offers, learn Ideas for Saving Cash on Disneyland Tickets. Find out about on-site and off-site inns in our Anaheim Lodge Evaluations & Rankings. For the place to eat, take a look at our Disneyland Restaurant Evaluations. For distinctive concepts of issues that’ll enhance your journey, take a look at What to Pack for Disney. For complete recommendation, seek the advice of our Disneyland Trip Planning Information. Lastly, for guides past Disney, take a look at our Southern California Itineraries for day journeys to Los Angeles, Laguna Seaside, and tons of different locations!
YOUR THOUGHTS
Do you intend on doing Disneyland in Might 2025? Which dates are you concentrating on? In case you’ve visited Disneyland throughout Might, what did you consider the expertise? Did you discover the group ranges to be manageable? Have any issues with Grad Nites? What in regards to the climate? In case you’ve visited in Might, do you’ve got any ideas so as to add? Are you heading to Disneyland Resort in the course of the month of Might? Share any questions, ideas, or further ideas you’ve got within the feedback!
