Past Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, there are theme parks in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. This checklist ranks all 12, with execs & cons, rides, reveals, parades, fireworks, and extra to find out the most effective & worst Disney parks worldwide.
Every of the Disney resort complexes has a citadel park, however not all of those parks are of the identical high quality, and their second gates (and past) are all very completely different. The checklist is our try at objectivity in rating the parks, attempting to the best extent doable to remove private biases and pesky issues like nostalgia.
Just like the BCS and different energy rankings, nobody is sure to agree with these, regardless of them being very scientific and downright infallible. Joking apart, it’s fully doable that you just’ll recognize varied sights, leisure, or the themed lands roughly than us, wherein case your checklist would differ. As with something like this, your mileage might fluctuate.
In the event you’ve learn this checklist up to now, we must always warn you that there aren’t any adjustments to the rankings themselves as of our newest replace in late 2025. That’s partly as a result of no brand-new headliner sights opened this 12 months at any of the parks around the globe. There have been new additions, to make certain, simply nothing on par with the World of Frozen or Fantasy Springs of the previous few years.
With one huge exception, it is because the final improvement cycle has ended and the subsequent one is simply getting began. That lone exception is Paris, the place the Walt Disney Studios Park (WDSP) growth was initially slated to be accomplished by final summer time’s Olympics, however now will likely be accomplished in March 2026.
Since issues essentially take time to construct, that meant no main new lands or sights in 2025. On the contrary, we noticed extra main closures this 12 months than we did openings! Whereas a few of these had been very notable (particularly at Magic Kingdom), in addition they didn’t actually transfer the needle on rankings. Except for the WDSP reworking into Disney Journey World in March 2026, that is going to be the story of the subsequent few years.
The following wave of additives gained’t actually come on-line till 2027, and even then, the majority of the tasks will wrap in 2028 by 2030. Suffice to say, it’s going to be an fascinating few years for the Disney Parks Energy Rankings. Motion up and down the checklist will in all probability be minimal, and extra pushed by leisure enhancements and the way negatively building and closures do (or don’t) impression the visitor expertise.
With that out of the way in which, listed below are our present Disney Parks Energy Rankings for Late 2025…
12. Walt Disney Studios Park
Walt Disney Studios Park is a park in transition. The massive recent-ish addition was Avengers Campus, which introduced a reskinned curler coaster, Spider-Man shooter recreation, and different additions much like the Marvel land in DCA. It wasn’t sufficient.
The excellent news is that extra is on the horizon! The newest announcement is a Lion King Land & Journey, which is able to open…finally. Earlier than that, visitors will likely be handled to an array of recent experiences on the park that what is going to quickly be known as “Disney Journey World.” This contains Journey Bay & Manner, the household attraction Raiponce Tangled Spin, Regal View Restaurant & Lounge, and the extremely anticipated World of Frozen land. All of those new sights open on March 29, 2026 on the newly-reimagined Disney Journey World.
Walt Disney Studios Park/Disney Journey World has a promising future, but it surely gained’t be a theme park really worthy of the Disney identify till Spring 2026. For now, it’s far and away the worst entry on this checklist. Even as soon as World of Frozen and all the pieces else opens, it’s nonetheless going to be powerful to go DCA for #11. However the hole completely will shut.
11. Disney California Journey
Almost a decade since Disney pulled again the curtain on DCA 2.0, the much-maligned second gate at Disneyland Resort continues to enhance, albeit minus a cohesive “California” theme. This has been accomplished slowly, with a two steps ahead, one step backwards sort of strategy.
The newest addition is Avengers Campus, which incorporates the previously-reimagined Guardians of the Galaxy – MISSION: Breakout and newcomer Internet Slingers: A Spider-Man Journey. Each are enjoyable additions, as is the land itself, which is filled with life due to the Marvel characters. There’s additionally San Fransokyo Sq., however that’s actually extra a recent coat of paint on the meals courtroom somewhat than something new.
The excellent news is that Disney California Journey has far more on the horizon earlier than 2030. DCA acquired maybe essentially the most love throughout D23, with bulletins of Pandora – World of Avatar, a number of new Marvel rides, and a Coco boat trip that sounds incredible. The unhealthy information is that none of this can open till Christmas 2027 on the absolute earliest, so we’re nonetheless a couple of years away from DCA transferring up the checklist. May Disney Journey World go it within the meantime? Eh, presumably. Most likely not.
10. Shanghai Disneyland
Shanghai Disneyland was essentially the most full opening day theme park to debut within the 2000s, a crown it nonetheless holds after the opening of Epic Universe in Orlando. Don’t let its rating right here idiot you, as Shanghai Disneyland has solely gotten higher within the years since, including lands based mostly on each Toy Story and Zootopia.
It nonetheless stays essentially the most polarizing park. Some followers have already proclaimed that Shanghai Disneyland is superior to all different parks. Conversely, critics have derided it as franchise-driven and cheesy. We disagree with each polarized stances, discovering Shanghai Disneyland to be surprisingly ‘full’ for a park that’s lower than a decade previous. It’s nonetheless fairly far behind the decades-established citadel parks, although.
Amongst its “residence runs” are Treasure Cove (particularly its revolutionary Pirates of the Caribbean – Battle for the Sunken Treasure attraction), Camp Discovery, Tron Lightcycle Energy Run, and Peter Pan’s Flight. We additionally give it factors for Enchanted Storybook Fort, which is extra spectacular in individual than its divisive design appears in idea artwork and images. Zootopia Land appears prefer it’s additionally a house run.
9. EPCOT
The EPCOT overhaul is lastly completed, I suppose. The development partitions are down, and World Celebration and CommuniCore Corridor have opened. Underwhelming as each is perhaps–lateral strikes at the best possible after ~5 years of building–they’re higher than partitions and a mud pit.
Fortuitously, there have been a number of worthwhile substantive additions. World Showcase is essentially trying good, and the debut of Remy’s Ratatouille Journey helped that space turn into extra well-rounded. Within the former Future World, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind moved the needle considerably, and is among the finest rides at Walt Disney World. Moana’s Journey of Water additionally helped spherical out the lineup, and Check Observe 3.0 helped breathe new life into that thrill trip.
Even so, extra substantive additions and upgrades are wanted within the Future World pavilions. Play Pavilion has been deserted, Spaceship Earth’s overdue reimagining was shelved, and a much-needed redo of Journey into Creativeness has been rumored for the final decade. EPCOT actually wants extra additions and precise enhancements on the entrance of the park. Its overhaul shouldn’t be over.
On the plus aspect, World Showcase continues to be attractive and gives a few of Disney’s finest ambiance, wherever. Spaceship Earth stays an awe-inspiring icon and fairly good attraction. Some Future World pavilions stay strong. It’s simply unlucky that half of the “overhaul” didn’t find yourself materializing or altering a lot.
8. Animal Kingdom
A powerful argument may be made that Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the most effective theme park in Florida. Whenever you emphasize the theme in theme park, we’d rank it #1 of Walt Disney World’s parks. That’s excessive reward, and sentiment that appears shared by the final park-going public given Animal Kingdom’s hovering attendance.
The issue for us, and one not resolved by the beautiful Pandora: World of Avatar, is that there’s loads of fashion, however nonetheless not sufficient substance. Positive, the park is gorgeous and the purest instance of unblemished (or near it) theme at Walt Disney World. However, folks go to theme parks anticipating rides, not simply themed design. That is true for us, too. Whereas we love Animal Kingdom, we’ve discovered that we love the concept of it greater than the park itself, and really go to it lower than some other park at Walt Disney World.
Whereas the zoological reveals, walk-throughs, and even leisure are great, Animal Kingdom might use extra on the ‘conventional attraction’ finish of the spectrum. Expedition Everest was a begin and Pandora furthered this, however that’s nonetheless solely 3 excessive profile rides for the reason that park opened. Animal Kingdom might nonetheless use a family-friendly darkish trip (or two…or three).
Tropical Americas will assist significantly, with the brand new Encanto trip plus reimagining of Dinosaur into Indiana Jones Journey. In our view, that’s a very good begin–however simply that, a begin. The truth is that Animal Kingdom is the park at Walt Disney World the furthest faraway from its final huge additions, and it’s been overdue for extra new rides for the final a number of years. It’s gradual descent down these rankings displays that.
Dinoland being a building zone, and the park decreasing its already low trip depend between now and late 2027, prevents it from climbing the checklist. That’s actually the story of the Walt Disney World parks proper now–weakened by building in 2026-2027 (if not longer) however to not the purpose that any of them fall additional on the rankings.
7. Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Disney Hollywood Studios has seen its inventory soar in the previous few years, going from #11 on this checklist to #7. This because of the reimagined Fantasmic (which is underappreciated amongst followers), Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, and extra. A very powerful addition stays Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and its mega E-Ticket Rise of the Resistance, which lives as much as each little bit of the hype and is tied for the #1 attraction at Walt Disney World.
Nonetheless, as an entire DHS is well Walt Disney World’s most irritating park. The highest-heavy lineup coupled with a surplus of reveals makes crowds and wait occasions insufferable at occasions. This park might actually use one other darkish trip or two, and even a few flat rides to spherical out the trip roster. There actually aren’t many family-friendly rides, simply reveals.
It was an up and down 12 months for Disney’s Hollywood Studios, with the Villains Unfairly Ever After and Little Mermaid – A Musical Journey stage reveals opening. Each are good additions. Shortly after these debuted, Muppets Courtyard and MuppetVision 3D closed to begin building on Monstropolis, which needs to be a blockbuster addition in 2028.
Fortunately, 2026 is poised to be an enormous 12 months for DHS. Debuting subsequent 12 months is the brand new mission on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets, and reimagined Walt Disney Studios Lot, that includes the Magic of Disney Animation, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Reside, and extra. That is greater than some other park at Walt Disney World, and will bump up DHS a spot if all the pieces is well-executed.
6. Hong Kong Disneyland
Hong Kong Disneyland catapulted up this checklist following its big growth consisting of Toy Story Land, Grizzly Gulch, and Mystic Level. That growth included Mystic Manor and Massive Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Automobiles, that are two of the highest 15 sights on the planet.
Not a lot modified for one more 5 years, however Hong Kong Disneyland now emerges from one other mostly-finished growth cycle. The 2 new Marvel rides have additionally confirmed to be a nice shock, even when the E-Ticket continues to be years away. The brand new Arendelle: the World of Frozen land is now open, and much exceeds expectations. Don’t take it without any consideration as merely a clone of the EPCOT attraction plus a kiddie coaster.
The citadel has additionally grown in measurement and scale, which was a controversial change however one which clearly establishes Hong Kong Disneyland as a park with its personal identification, and never only a lesser-Disneyland clone. Smaller, much less splashy additions have been revamped the previous few years, to the purpose that Hong Kong Disneyland now punches above its weight and is a worthy citadel park. Hong Kong Disneyland’s twentieth Anniversary Celebration elevates it even additional by Summer time 2026.
Don’t sleep on Hong Kong Disneyland in the event you go to Asia. It’s a nice shock and certainly one of our favourite locations to spend time, even when its trip roster or themed design nonetheless places it–on paper, a minimum of–a rung beneath the “huge” citadel parks. You gained’t remorse visiting, and HKDL may simply steal your coronary heart, prefer it did ours.
5. Magic Kingdom
Once more, nostalgia comes into play. My opinion of Magic Kingdom will almost certainly all the time be coloured by recollections of my youth–this stays my “residence” citadel park. Sitting right here evaluating the park on-line, I can take a look at it with a crucial eye, however in individual all of that melts away as I really feel like a child once more when strolling down Major Avenue.
It’s been an up and down few years for Magic Kingdom. Fortunately Ever After returned and TRON Lightcycle Run is a superb addition. Tiana’s Bayou Journey additionally opened, and Disney Starlight Night time Parade debuted. All optimistic additions, though the latter two are a bit extra blended.
Nonetheless, rising pains have emerged within the second half of 2025. Walt Disney World is constructing two all-new Automobiles sights in a reimagined space of Frontierland and Villains Land growth at Magic Kingdom, primarily between and behind Massive Thunder and Haunted Mansion. These are seemingly pluses from a trip roster perspective within the long-term as soon as they debut between 2028 and 2030. The issue is the subsequent few years, within the lead-up to these lands opening.
At the moment, the Rivers of America is within the technique of being crammed in, with Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Sq. Riverboat having completely closed over the summer time. The results of this isn’t simply the lack of scenic magnificence and kinetics–it’s changing that charming space of the park with a sea of building partitions.
On high of that, New Fantasyland is not-so-new, Tomorrowland is mockingly essentially the most dated and drained land, and several other sights are lengthy overdue for updates. Nonetheless, Magic Kingdom has essentially the most well-rounded attraction lineup of any park at Walt Disney World. It’s additionally residence to loads of fan-favorites like Nation Bear Musical Jamboree, Carousel of Progress, and the Peoplemover. Not solely that, however fan-favorites like Massive Thunder Mountain Railroad and Buzz Lightyear’s House Vary Spin are being enhanced, and the fruits of that may debut in Spring 2026.
With all of that stated, Magic Kingdom has a sure magnificence, grandiosity, and sentimentality. This sense of escape and suspension of disbelief makes it actually interesting. Nonetheless, because the crown jewel park at Disney’s largest and hottest resort complicated on the planet, Magic Kingdom deserves higher. Plan your go to with our complete Walt Disney World Trip Planning Information.
4. Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Paris has admirably used the momentum of its incredible thirtieth Anniversary into success due to drones and seasonal leisure. The park has perfected drone reveals over the citadel, Sleeping Magnificence Fort is trying splendid, and Disneyland Paris has introduced again fan-favorite leisure.
Even earlier than this, Disneyland Paris was getting again on observe with main refurbishments to key sights. This has included in depth reimaginings of Pirates of the Caribbean and Phantom Manor, the latter of which is France’s distinctive tackle Haunted Mansion. Disneyland Paris nonetheless has room for enchancment (a lot of it on the operational entrance), however Disneyland Paris appears higher than we’ve ever seen it.
That is coupled with the always-exceptional design work at Disneyland Paris make it one of many high parks on the planet. That is notably true for individuals who favor parks as themed areas, somewhat than collections of sights. On the trip entrance, Disneyland Paris continues to be a step or two (or 3-4) behind the opposite citadel parks, but it surely compensates for this with so many superb areas and complicated particulars. Oh, and it has the most effective Disney citadel on the planet. It may be a irritating place to go to, but in addition extremely enchanting. Plan your go to with our complete Disneyland Paris Trip Planning Information.
3. Disneyland
Disneyland takes the #3 slot, and comes inside placing distance of #2 due to the profitable seventieth Anniversary Celebration, which introduced with it the return of Paint the Night time Parade and Wondrous Journeys Fireworks, plus the debut of Walt Disney – A Magical Life.
Then there’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and the debut of its flagship attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Each the land and the trip are among the many absolute best on the planet. Galaxy’s Edge is beautifully-done, immersive, transportive, and represents the evolution of themed lands. Disneyland doesn’t rating fairly as many factors right here as maybe it ought to, as the brand new Star Wars Land feels remoted and eliminated for the remainder of the park–additionally like a park inside the park–somewhat than a coherent house that congeals with the higher complete.
Nonetheless, this separation has one large upside, and that’s the preservation of the allure and intimacy of Walt Disney’s authentic magic kingdom. The ‘conventional’ aspect of the park nonetheless oozes whimsy, magnificence, and heat. Furthermore, Disneyland has a few of the finest themed areas on the planet, with the Rivers of America, New Orleans Sq., Frontierland, Adventureland, and Major Avenue all being extremely inviting.
Equally as essential, it has an unbelievable slate of sights, starting from intimate Fantasyland darkish rides like Mr. Toad’s Wild Journey and Alice in Wonderland to blockbuster E-Tickets like Indiana Jones Journey and Hyperspace Mountain. Disneyland is extremely attraction-dense, with nice variations of the classics, plus a strong slate of leisure. Plan your go to with our complete Disneyland Trip Planning Information.
2. Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland’s $750 million growth breathed new life into Fantasyland, Toontown, and Tomorrowland. These additions reworked loads of useless house into participating themed areas, which has been an enormous initiative for Tokyo Disneyland.
Leisure is (nonetheless!) slowly returning, venues are reopening, and cuts are being restored. It’s to the purpose the place, outdoors of scaled-back seasonal occasions, Tokyo Disneyland feels fairly near what it was like in 2019. Final 12 months, the park debuted the brand new “Attain for the Stars” nighttime spectacular, which is ok. It’s additionally introduced again the Nation Bears seasonal reveals and different celebrations, which is a a lot greater deal. It might nonetheless use a pair extra stage reveals and extra on the seasonal entrance.
Tokyo Disneyland’s attraction roster nonetheless gives the best hits of the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland, with the most effective model of quite a few iconic Disney rides. Along with a formidable lineup of classics, Tokyo Disneyland additionally has a number of headliners of its personal in Pooh’s Hunny Hunt, Monsters Inc. Journey and Go Search, and Enchanted Story of Magnificence and the Beast.
It not appears like a ‘clone park’ as so lots of its current lands have been overhauled, and that’ll be much more true in a pair years when the all-new House Mountain and revamped Tomorrowland debuts. For now, that a part of the park is a multitude of building partitions–to not the purpose to harm its rating, however sufficient to touch upon.
Nonetheless, it’s not the trip roster that places Tokyo Disneyland close to the highest. The leisure is superb, with a daily lineup of strong seasonal choices, plus the Concord in Colour daytime parade and Dreamlights, Disney’s finest night time parade. Past that, Tokyo Disneyland’s upkeep, consideration to element, present high quality, eating, and Forged Members are all unsurpassed. Plan your go to with our complete Tokyo Disneyland Trip Planning Information.
1. Tokyo DisneySea
Even after the debut of Fantasy Springs, there may be in some way nonetheless reliable debate about whether or not Tokyo DisneySea is deserving of the highest spot. The excellent news is that our scathing publish explaining Why Disney’s #1 Park is Getting 1-Star Evaluations is not fully legitimate. The unhealthy information is that an excessive amount of of that also stays correct.
For one factor, wait occasions at Tokyo DisneySea stay ridiculous for ~200 days of the 12 months. It’s not as absurd because it was when Fantasy Springs was utilizing a de facto digital queue, but it surely’s nonetheless fairly far off from 2019. There are 8 sights that common wait occasions of 100 minutes or extra. 5 of these have averages above 2 hours. These are averages–peak waits of 240 minutes for a number of headliners shouldn’t be unusual!
For one more, loads of different leisure continues to be lacking. We wouldn’t go so far as to say Tokyo DisneySea appears like a shadow of its former self, but it surely has been noticeably downgraded outdoors of Fantasy Springs. This can be a huge a part of why wait occasions are longer–as a result of so many issues that beforehand absorbed crowds are (nonetheless!) lacking.
As in comparison with what it as soon as was in 2019 or earlier, Tokyo DisneySea has misplaced its luster. Nonetheless, it was the most effective Disney theme park by a large margin earlier than, and retains that standing, albeit with a a lot narrower lead over its subsequent door neighbor and even Disneyland in California. The very fact of the matter is that, even acknowledging its points, if we might solely go to or suggest one theme park on the planet, Tokyo DisneySea would nonetheless be it.
I’ve already devoted a whole article to the High 10 Causes Tokyo DisneySea is Disney’s Finest Park, so I’ll simply defer to that for what else makes this park so unbelievably particular. Tokyo DisneySea continues to be Disney’s finest theme park on the planet, even the present model of the park. That’s the underside line, and why it’d be disingenuous to let one of many Disneylands sneak into the highest spot over it simply because I’m annoyed by the park’s operations and absurdly lengthy traces (even by Japan requirements).
As for Fantasy Springs, its sights are widespread for good cause. This over $2 billion addition consisting of Peter Pan, Frozen, and Tangled areas is the most important finances growth of any current Disney theme park ever and completely lives as much as the hype. There’s a cause why Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey makes Sarah & Tom’s Listing of the High 15 Disney Sights within the World, and Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey nearly does!
Hope you loved this new version of the Disney Parks Energy Rankings. Understand that this checklist is all in good enjoyable. Like sports activities followers, most Disney followers have sturdy allegiances in direction of their residence park and take offense after they really feel it’s slighted. Do not forget that that is one random dude’s opinion on the web. On the finish of the day, it doesn’t impression your enjoyment of your “favourite” park if I rank it at quantity 8, nor does my opinion matter (in any respect) within the grand scheme of issues.
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