Typical hours for November

[maleficent55]

Animal Kingdom in particular. This park looks to have later openings and earlier closing times than the other parks, and I'm specifically interested in the hours the week before Thanksgiving. If possible of course...

 

[Chumpydo]

If it helps, the average hours for Animal Kingdom Theme Park were between 8:00am and 7:00pm EST during November 2021.

 

[Gehrig1B]

The closer you get to Thanksgiving the later parks will stay open due to crowds. I have seen times of 8:00 am-8:00 pm for Animal Kingdom the week of Thanksgiving, maybe not the week before...

 

[mickeyluv'r]

When it comes to park hours and 2022, prior years do not matter. The current year has greatly reduced park hours compared to pre-pandemic years.

Second, November will almost certainly have some sort of MK PM hard ticket event. Expect MK to close early numerous nights in November.

One small bright spot is that 2022 park hours appear to be slightly improved over 2021 park hours, but still are very reduced.

A rough guide for you would be to look over Easter 2-week period park hours, but not quite yet. Disney has been in the habit of modifying park hours about 2 weeks out. Dates close to Thanksgiving will probably be similar to Easter, except Easter surge is 2 weeks long. Thanksgiving is more concentrated. WDW hotel surge pricing runs 11/22-25. (Easter super surge pricing= 4/8-21, and only slightly lower rates 4/22+4/23.)

AKL Standard view: Easter =$651, 4/22= $596. 11/22: $613, but on 11/21 and 11/26 the rate goes down to $572. (Not that $572 is low, by any means.)

Even then, there is great uncertainty for what will the upcoming months. People might be eager to travel, or they might not be eager to travel to WDW in November. Also, the hotel rates can easily be manipulated if WDW doesn't have enough people willing to pay $600+, so take even the hotel rates as a rough guide for when WDW expects to see a holiday surge.

 

[Tom_E_D]

Animal Kingdom in particular. This park looks to have later openings and earlier closing times than the other parks, and I'm specifically interested in the hours the week before Thanksgiving. If possible of course...

Historical park hours since 2009 can be found in this calendar.

 

[Gentry2004]

When it comes to park hours and 2022, prior years do not matter. The current year has greatly reduced park hours compared to pre-pandemic years.

Second, November will almost certainly have some sort of MK PM hard ticket event. Expect MK to close early numerous nights in November.

One small bright spot is that 2022 park hours appear to be slightly improved over 2021 park hours, but still are very reduced.

A rough guide for you would be to look over Easter 2-week period park hours, but not quite yet. Disney has been in the habit of modifying park hours about 2 weeks out. Dates close to Thanksgiving will probably be similar to Easter, except Easter surge is 2 weeks long. Thanksgiving is more concentrated. WDW hotel surge pricing runs 11/22-25. (Easter super surge pricing= 4/8-21, and only slightly lower rates 4/22+4/23.)

AKL Standard view: Easter =$651, 4/22= $596. 11/22: $613, but on 11/21 and 11/26 the rate goes down to $572. (Not that $572 is low, by any means.)

Even then, there is great uncertainty for what will the upcoming months. People might be eager to travel, or they might not be eager to travel to WDW in November. Also, the hotel rates can easily be manipulated if WDW doesn't have enough people willing to pay $600+, so take even the hotel rates as a rough guide for when WDW expects to see a holiday surge.

I still weep that I had AKL reserved just under $300 in late summer 2020. We cancelled and I expect that will never happen again.