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EPCOT
Score6.8
🇺🇸United StatesTheme parkNorth America (USA)
Bay Lake, Florida, United States
A Disney World park about world cultures and innovation, famous for food festivals.
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Best for
Best for FamiliesOpened
1982
Size
300 acres (122 ha)
Rides
20 attractions
Avg. visit
9 hours
Ticket range
$109–$189 USD
EPCOT overview
EPCOT at a glance
A Disney World park about world cultures and innovation, famous for food festivals.
EPCOT pairs a future-facing Discovery park with the World Showcase, eleven country pavilions circling a 40-acre lagoon. Its year-round festival calendar — Food & Wine, Flower & Garden, Festival of the Arts — makes it the most repeat-visited park at Walt Disney World for adults, while Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and Test Track supply the thrills.
Our editor's recommendation
Worth a day, but build it into a wider trip rather than flying in for it. It ranks #41 of the 50 parks we score, at 6.8/10 with 20 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 9 hours. Tickets run $109–$189 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its family-friendly range. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get, and queues average around 24 minutes. Best time to visit: Fall.
EPCOT highlights
Rides & attractions at EPCOT
These are the top attractions at EPCOT — 10 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 6 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Plan your visit to EPCOT
- Operating hours
- Typically 9am-9pm, with extended hours during festivals
- Typical gate times
- Usually 09:00 to 21:00.
- Operating calendar
- Open daily year-round; hours published day by day on the official calendar.
- Extended hours
- Early Entry 30 minutes before opening for Disney Resort hotel guests.
- Seasonal closures
- Open year-round
- Queue-skip pass
- Lightning Lane Multi Pass plus Single Pass for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. From about $32 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- Covered by Walt Disney World multi-day tickets (2-10 days) with optional Park Hopper.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $469 USD.
EPCOT map
Official park mapEPCOT events & shows
EPCOT International Festival of the Arts
Visual, culinary and performing arts festival with the Disney on Broadway concert series.
EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays
Holiday kitchens, the Candlelight Processional and storytellers from around World Showcase.
EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival
Topiaries, gardens, outdoor kitchens and the Garden Rocks concert series.
EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival
Global marketplaces of food and drink around World Showcase plus the Eat to the Beat concert series.
EPCOT reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
6.8
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
EPCOT wait times
- Typical day
24
- Crowd & wait score
6.3
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