Just in time for its 70th birthday, Disneyland Resort reportedly surpassed 1 billion all-time visitors this year.
Disneyland Resort 1 Billion Guests
According to The Orange County Register, Disneyland Resort would have welcomed its 1 billionth visitor in February of this year.
Disney used to announce attendance milestones, including 100 million all-time visitors in 1971. In 2004, they celebrated 500 millionth visitor Bill Trow of Australia, who entered Disneyland at 10:16 a.m. on January 8 of that year. The “population” sign on the Main Street train station was last updated to 650,000,000 in 2013.
Disneyland Resort likely would have passed 1 billion visitors sooner if it hadn’t been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to April 2021.
An estimated 2.3 million guests visit Disneyland Resort every month. Approximately 75,890 guests combined enter the parks daily. Based on these numbers, OCR guesses the 1 billionth visitor entered one of the parks on February 15.
Disneyland Park’s attendance numbers peaked in 2019, before the COVID-19 closure. According to TEA/AECOM estimates, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure combined had 27.7 million visitors in 2023. During a speech on the resort’s 70th anniversary, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said Disneyland Resort had reached “almost 30 million” annual guests.
Disney California Adventure reached an all-time attendance record of 10 million visitors in 2023. Disneyland’s attendance, however, was still 1 million behind its 2019 peak.
About 996.5 million total would have entered the parks by the end of 2024. If Disneyland’s attendance increased from 2023, it’s possible the park reached 1 billion all-time guests last year.
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