Disney World ticket prices vary by date, but Disney’s purchasing workflow makes it hard to compare costs. They use sneaky tactics to blur the difference between dates while you’re buying. It doesn’t have to be that complicated! In this article, we have the price of every regular ticket you can buy in 2026, along with add-on pricing and a bit of big-picture analysis. It’s the info you need to choose theme park tickets that fit your Disney World vacation budget.

There’s a lot to talk about, so if you’re in a hurry then click below to go straight to the section that interests you. All prices in this article are accurate as of October 12, 2025, and do not include Florida’s 6.5% sales tax. Tap any image to enlarge.

Let’s Talk About the Big Picture
Add-Ons and Multi-day Tickets
Value Analysis for Add-Ons
Just Show Me The Prices

Single-Day Price Trends

I like to start out with the prices for single-day tickets because it feels a bit like a crowd calendar. It’s a quick view of when tickets will cost the most, so it’s also, a bit, when Disney expects the parks to be busiest. Of course, we have a Crowd Calendar here at TouringPlans, and we update our predictions a few times a year. At the end of 2024, we put our calendar head-to-head against Disney’s demand prediction based on ticket prices. I’ll go ahead and brag — we came out on top. Again. 🙂

When you buy a single-day ticket, you buy it for a specific park, but Magic Kingdom is always the most expensive. Animal Kingdom is always the cheapest, with the other two parks somewhere in between. The chart below uses the Magic Kingdom ticket prices, but the pattern is similar for other parks.

It’s immediately clear that the lowest prices are in August and September. Disney advertises single-day tickets starting at $119, but those are only at Animal Kingdom. Taking a look in the other direction, Christmas and Thanksgiving own the top prices. But you can easily pick out the peak weeks for February, March, and Easter vacations, along with a stripe of red at the end of May that covers Memorial Day weekend and the first few days of “schools out” for Orange County.

The cheapest single-day Magic Kingdom ticket is $139, and the highest is $209. Throughout the year, weekend tickets (Friday through Sunday) are routinely about $5-$10 more expensive than nearby weekdays. And for every 1-day ticket type, a child ticket is $5 less than the price of the same adult ticket.

Comparing lows and highs on the same days at Disney World, usually the single-day ticket for the most expensive park is about $25 more than the cheapest, though it can get as high as $45. But overall, the “crowd calendar” heatmap doesn’t change much from park to park. Tap the links to see prices for 1-day tickets at EPCOT | Hollywood Studios | Animal Kingdom. Here are the 2026 price charts for  1-day Park Hoppers, and the Park Hopper Plus price also varies with the date. (That’s new this year – up until now it was a flat $20 extra.)

Overall Price Range

Does it look like there are very few days that are actually “Value” priced? You’re not wrong. In 2026, there are 14 different prices for a single-day Magic Kingdom ticket, but for the Magic Kingdom minimum of $139, there are only two days at that price!

The bubble chart breaks out ticket prices by month, with the bubble size showing the number of tickets at that price. This visual makes it obvious how many days (or how few) are actually in that “rock bottom” range.

Woo-hee, look at those two days in August at the lowest price of $139, hanging out on their lonesome all the way on the left. And something else should jump out at you from this chart. If you’re not able to visit in the dog days of summer (July through September), you should expect to pay between $189 and $199 for a 1-day ticket to the Magic Kingdom.

For single-day tickets, that summer pricing might convince you to brave the heat. But if you’re going at another time, the $10 in savings may not be more important than other factors, or easily made up elsewhere in your budget. When we begin looking at multi-day tickets, that $10 range will begin to grow larger. The more people in your group, the more impact it will have.

Add-Ons and Multi-Day Pricing

Disney offers three ticket upgrades that can be added to any length of ticket. The Water Park and Sports add-on is good for admission to a variety of activities related to (surprise!) water parks and sports.  The Park Hopper add-on lets you visit more than one park in a single day.  The combo with both add-ons is the Park Hopper Plus. If you already know what all these are, you can skip ahead to the summary chart and value analysis. Current prices for these add-ons are in the table below.

Park Hopper Add-On

If you buy a 4-day base ticket, you get four admissions to the Disney World theme parks between the start date of your ticket and the expiration date a week later. However, each admission only gives you entry to one park, and you can’t use more than one admission per day.  This means you can’t buy a 5-day ticket and use it to visit Magic Kingdom and EPCOT on the same day just by spending an “extra” admission that day.

The Park Hopper lets you go from park to park on a single admission. You can switch parks as many times as you like. Stepping up to a Park Hopper costs between $65 and $105, depending on the length of your ticket and the start date.

Water Parks & Sports Add-On

The Water Parks & Sports add-on is a flat $70 through most of the year, and rises to $80 in the summer months. (Presumably, when you might want to visit a water park – that change from flat pricing is new this year.) It isn’t offered on 1-day tickets. There’s more than just water parks in the entitlements that come with this add-on, and you’ll get the same number of entitlements as you have days on your tickets. You can use these entitlements for:

• A water park visit to Typhoon Lagoon (currently closed) or Blizzard Beach
• A round of mini-golf (before 4 p.m.) at Fantasia Gardens or Winter Summerland
• A round of golf at Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course
• A round of FootGolf at Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course
• A visit to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

One thing you need to know is that the expiration date of a 4-day base ticket is not four days after the start date — it’s a week. You don’t have to go to the theme parks and also use one of your WPS admissions on the same day, every day, to use them all. And, the Water Parks & Sports add-on gives you an extra day before your ticket expires compared to the same length base ticket.

That said, there are a couple of funky rules. In general, you can use more than one admission per day; for instance, you can go to a water park and play mini-golf on the same day. But mini-golf is only free before 4 p.m. and there’s a max of one round per day (you can pay out of pocket for more rounds). On the flip side, you can visit Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach on the same day with just one admission. (Park Hopping is automatically included with a water park ticket.) That would require them to be open on the same day, which means a summer visit.

Park Hopper Plus

The Park Hopper Plus gives you both the park-hopping ability of the Park Hopper add-on and the extra activities of the Water Parks & Sports add-on.  Plus, compared to the base ticket, the Hopper Plus gives you an extra day before your ticket expires to do all that stuff in … because with all that hopping back and forth and up and down, you might need it to keep from getting really tired. Park Hopper Plus is typically about $20-30 more than a regular Park Hopper with the same start date, and about $30-$55 more than the Water Parks add-on alone.

Multi-Day Tickets (and Stats)

Since 2005, Disney World tickets have been cheaper per day the longer you stay. But even the multi-day tickets have variable prices, so how does that work? There used to be a nice formula that you could use, which made sense. You combined the prices of the days your ticket was good for, then applied a discount factor to get the cost of the multi-day ticket.

If you try that now, you get a variable discount factor that generally has a range of ±1-2%. I can’t say for sure that Disney set the prices and then applied a jitter function to make data scientists like me nuts. But it sure feels that way. The chart below takes a look at price trends based on ticket length and time of year.

Looking at the chart above, it’s easy to see that after 4 days, the amount for each extra day falls off quite sharply. The median 1-day ticket is $184, the median 4-day ticket is about 3.5 times that at $659 — but it’s only an additional $216 to get all the way to 10 days. Put differently, the first day of a 10-day ticket often costs only a bit less than the last six days combined.

No matter how long your ticket is, the TouringPlans Ticket Calculator could help you find savings. It might be as simple as adjusting the start date of your ticket. Or, the Ticket Calculator can find the authorized reseller with the best price for your dates. That’s often a savings of about 10%.

What’s Worth It?

Now that we’ve got this large collection of numbers that go into the price of your ticket, I feel like it’s time for a nice chart so we can see them all in one place. This chart uses the modes and medians to keep it simple; it shows the prices you’re most likely to pay. But remember that you could pay a few dollars more or less, depending on your specific dates.

Our article on choosing add-ons discusses the factors that might make these options appealing, but let’s start with what’s easy. If you’re going to a water park for even one day, you should consider the Water Parks add-on. It’s no longer cheaper than a single-day Water Park ticket, but it’s close enough that if you do anything else, then your add-on is a win. What’s harder to say is when a Park Hopper is worth it. That’s totally going to be dependent on your personal style. If your trip is 4 days or more, adding an extra day may be more economical than a Park Hopper.

There’s a lot of synergy in the Park Hopper Plus; it’s worth considering if you’re already getting the Water Parks add-on. A typical 7-day ticket breaks down to $105 per day. If you’ll only hop on a couple of days, $95 for a Park Hopper add-on might feel pretty steep at $47.50 per day. But if you’re already buying the Water Parks & Sports add-on, upgrading is only $15-25 per day; that might feel more reasonable. Going the other way, if you’re buying the Hopper, then a single round of mini-golf will make the Hopper Plus pay off.

One thing to remember about date-based Disney tickets: you can add on features or days, right up until the end of the last day that you use them in the parks. It will only cost you the difference in price between your new ticket and the one you initially bought. It’s never too late to make your ticket more expensive, but it’s hard to make it cheaper once Disney has your money.

In the last few years, Disney has released special summer ticket offers. These tickets offer considerable savings, although they do come with restrictions. You can see last year’s offer here: Kids and Adults: Save on Tickets at Disney World in Summer of 2025. Depending on your plans, you might wait to buy tickets in case a similar offer is released for 2026.

All. The. Prices.

I promised you all the prices for 2026, and here they are. Coloring for each length of ticket is scaled across the whole year. That is: 3-day ticket coloring scales against all 3-day tickets, not against 2-day tickets in the same month. The 1-day ticket price shown in these charts is the average across all parks for that day.

To save you from scrolling and scrolling, these are only the adult base ticket prices. To see all the rest, including Park Hopper, Water Parks, Park Hopper Plus, and child prices, click here for a PDF with these same charts for those ticket classes.

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Do you adjust your dates to get a better price on your ticket? What’s your favorite add-on? Let us know in the comments!