Orlando theme park weather
1 Current conditions
Observed 19:45 ET
Planning tip
Rain is likely around 7pm (69% chance). Indoor attractions take the overflow when a shower rolls through, so ride them before it hits and save the outdoor headliners for after — queues often drop once the ground is wet.
2 Today's timeline
Hour by hour through the rest of today and into tomorrow morning. Scroll sideways.
3 Doppler radar
Live precipitation over central Florida with all twelve parks pinned, so you can see exactly what is heading toward which gate. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom.
4 7-day forecast
Daily high and low, the day's dominant conditions, and the highest hourly rain chance.
5 How weather affects wait times
Patterns worth planning around. These are tendencies, not guarantees — a genuinely wet day behaves differently from a passing shower.
Rain splits the park in two
Outdoor coasters and water rides empty out fast — posted waits can halve within twenty minutes of a downpour. Everything indoors absorbs that crowd at once, so dark rides, theatres and shops spike. The trade is usually worth it: a poncho and an outdoor headliner beats an hour indoors.
Lightning stops rides, not the queue
Central Florida averages more thunderstorm days than anywhere else in the country. Outdoor attractions go on hold during lightning within a few miles, and the queue keeps standing there. When the hold lifts, those waits are longer than before the storm.
Heat pushes people to water
Once the heat index passes about 95°F, water rides and air-conditioned attractions take the load and the afternoon lull gets deeper — a real share of guests leave for a hotel pool and come back after dinner. Outdoor headliners are often at their softest between 2pm and 4pm on the hottest days.
A perfect day is a busy day
Mild, dry weather keeps everyone in the park all day, so queues stay flat instead of emptying in the afternoon. The pleasant days are frequently the ones with the highest Wait Scores — a cloudy 82°F is often a better park day than a sunny 78°F.
We record every posted wait alongside the conditions at the time. Once there are enough matching park days, each park's page will show its own measured rain-versus-dry comparison rather than these general patterns.
6 Weather by park
Same forecast, with each park's own wait-time correlation as that data builds.
SeaWorld Orlando SeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando Epic Universe
Universal Orlando Islands of Adventure
Universal Orlando Universal Studios Florida
Universal Orlando Volcano Bay
Universal Orlando Animal Kingdom
Walt Disney World Blizzard Beach
Walt Disney World EPCOT
Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios
Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World Typhoon Lagoon
Walt Disney World
Forecast data from Open-Meteo; alerts and radar from the US National Weather Service. Coordinates 28.38, -81.56 — the Orlando theme-park corridor.