Disney nighttime parade - Begins July 20, 2025!!

[goofies]

It is odd that this website has the park hours but they are not on the Disney website yet

Park hours can be found in the My Disney Experience app.

 

[scrappinginontario]

It is odd that this website has the park hours but they are not on the Disney website yet

Not sure which dates you are looking for? At this time the MDE App is displaying park hours through July 11, 2025.

To find them go to the home page, and look for this.

Click ‘All Hours’



Scrolling to the right shows dates hours are currently published for



Note: The online version of MDE is only showing park hours until July 1 at this time so I would recommend checking the app rather than the website.

 

[brockash]

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Not sure which dates you are looking for? At this time the MDE App is displaying park hours through July 11, 2025.

To find them go to the home page, and look for this.

Click ‘All Hours’

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Scrolling to the right shows dates hours are currently published for
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Note: The online version of MDE is only showing park hours until July 1 at this time so I would recommend checking the app rather than the website.

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I think they're talking about the actual Disneyworld website (5 day calendar thing). - It's only showing through 7/1.

 

[cisco911]

So from what I read, they are doing fireworks and then the parade afterwards? Did I read that wrong? Doesn't make sense to hold the parade after fireworks. If it is before, everyone will be in the main hub for hours because you will have to find a spot for parade and then for fireworks after....no one would leave the hub.

 

[Mle8308]

So from what I read, they are doing fireworks and then the parade afterwards? Did I read that wrong? Doesn't make sense to hold the parade after fireworks. If it is before, everyone will be in the main hub for hours because you will have to find a spot for parade and then for fireworks after....no one would leave the hub.

Two parades, one before fireworks and one after. Not sure of exact times, I can't remember what the speculation was, but there was a potential schedule. Tom Bricker has a great blog about it.

 

[SimonSez]

We are leaving WDW on July 27th, figures

 

[Mle8308]

We are leaving WDW on July 27th, figures

I think the parade is "supposed" to start around July 7th or 8th. No actual announcements, just speculation. You may see it!

 

[Tatebeck]

The time slots were supposedly going to be
1st parade at 9:00
fireworks at 10:00
2nd parade at 11:00

But I don't think that was ever confirmed anywhere so take that with a grain of salt (or two)

 

[Mle8308]

The time slots were supposedly going to be
1st parade at 9:00
fireworks at 10:00
2nd parade at 11:00

But I don't think that was ever confirmed anywhere so take that with a grain of salt (or two)

I believe that is what I read, too! Again, still speculation.

 

[DopeyDad68]

All highly speculative but right now my best guess is Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away will debut on Sunday July 6, right after all the 4th of July crowd. And coincidentally would coincide with Islamic holiday of Ashura commemorating the parting of the Red Sea by Moses, doubt that Disney considered that. Am prepared to be a little disappointed if I'm off by a few days but will be very disappointed if parade has not been up and running for some time before we get there in third week of July. Hope there will be an official announcement of start date soon. May affect our planning.

 

[TheDailyMoo]

Universal gets a whole new theme park and we're all drooling over a nighttime parade. At this point this is our relationship to Disney...


PS I did make park reservations as soon as I heard...it's sad we get this excited about a parade but what else do we have for now?

 

[LSUfan4444]

Note: The online version of MDE is only showing park hours until July 1 at this time so I would recommend checking the app rather than the website.

Thats a big part of the confusion for many people. It's pretty silly they don't display the same time frame in both places.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Thats a big part of the confusion for many people. It's pretty silly they don't display the same time frame in both places.

I agree, Just trying to offer assistance to those reading this thread.

 

[goofies]

All highly speculative but right now my best guess is Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away will debut on Sunday July 6,

will be very disappointed if parade has not been up and running for some time before we get there in third week of July. Hope there will be an official announcement of start date soon.

If there is no official announcement today (Earnings are due today), I believe it will be very hard Disney Starlight to be running by the third week of July.

But I think they'll announce it today !! Investors are in dire need of important updates on theme parks worldwide.

 

[gottalovepluto]

All highly speculative but right now my best guess is Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away will debut on Sunday July 6, right after all the 4th of July crowd.

I do not see them debuting something on Sunday. It would be awkward. You don’t debut/open things on Sundays, open on Fri or Sat sure. During the week? Yes. But Sunday is just awkward.

And what 4th of July crowd? That’s been a pretty great time to do Disney the last couple years. Everyone thinks it’s crowded but it really hasn’t been.

 

[gottalovepluto]

If there is no official announcement today (Earnings are due today), I believe it will be very hard Disney Starlight to be running by the third week of July.

But I think they'll announce it today !! Investors are in dire need of important updates on theme parks worldwide.

Why would they need 10 weeks from announcing it? It’s a parade, they don’t need to run tons of previews, MK has parade/crowd logistics down pat, and crowd-less parade testing would occur after MK close so no need to notify the public.

 

[goofies]

Why would they need 10 weeks from announcing it? It’s a parade, they don’t need to run tons of previews, MK has parade/crowd logistics down pat, and crowd-less parade testing would occur after MK close so no need to notify the public.

I so hope you are right, it's been from1997 I saw a night parade.
Looking forward to it, even more than EU.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I so hope you are right, it's been from1997 I saw a night parade.
Looking forward to it, even more than EU.

Don’t get wrong- it could be 10 weeks out from debuting but I don’t see them needing to announce its opening date that far in advance.

This thread makes me want to make my own guess on the debut date, gotta go read some gossip blogs and get caught up first though!

 

[gottalovepluto]

...Hopefully, they’ll open the Main Street bypasses when the parade is over so that people who don’t want to see fireworks can exit without fighting their way down Main Street.

Exited through a bypass that ran behind the Emporium this Spring right before fireworks one night for the first time ever and it was so efficient! Having the bypasses open makes a lot of sense for crowd control once the parade really gets things going.

I love AK to death but it objectively sucks doing this in July when the park isn't even dark enough to enjoy Pandora at night. Half the appeal of that place is walking around chilling looking at the animals but that's not available, so in the summer you're looking at like 4 rides...and that's it. And FoP isn't practical to do a ton of re-rides on because of the preshow. Meanwhile we knocked out close to 10 rides including all of the heavy hitters at MK last time we were down and did EEH.

I love AK too and but half the appeal is the animals! I think operations made a lousy call here. It's just not worth hauling out there and going all the way into the park for a couple rides unless we get reports nobody is going. But I just don't see how that's gonna be possible with so many people having access and so few rides. They'll have what- Everest, Dino, FoP & Na'vi? For goodness sakes they won't even have the new Zootopia show yet. Wish they'd have subbed in DHS even if only for a couple months. But that would take more CMs than AK is going to take...

It is odd that this website has the park hours but they are not on the Disney website yet

Two words: Disney IT

 

[gottalovepluto]

Having gathered all the internet evidence I shall place my no-money bet!

Official debut Tuesday, July 8
Soft open Sunday, July 6

Why? Disney has a history of debuting things on Tuesdays and Fridays (idk why those days but they do). Two days of soft openings accessible to the general public happened with Harmonius and one day of a soft opening with 50th Fireworks so not unprecedented. CMs continuing blackout practically confirms it will be running over the 2nd week of July. Moving 7/2 EEH to AK indicates something happening at MK, no reason to move it otherwise, however the fireworks not moving until Sun leads me to speculate parade testing after park close.