EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo and Friends Now Closing Early at 7 PM Daily

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The Seas with Nemo and Friends Early Close Notice

Posted: Thursday January 16, 2025 12:23pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The Seas with Nemo & Friends pavilion at EPCOT is now closing at 7 pm daily, two hours earlier than its usual operating hours. It is unclear whether this change is a seasonal adjustment due to lower guest demand in the evenings or if it is to accommodate ongoing work at the pavilion.

The Seas with Nemo and Friends Early Close Notice

The earlier closing time is reflected in Disney's official park hours calendar, which currently extends through mid-March 2025. There has been no official announcement regarding the reason for the change or how long the adjusted hours will remain in place.

The Seas with Nemo and Friends Early Close Notice

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V_L_RaptorMar 01, 2025

Digging the lighting, but I will never forgive the loss of that sunset mural.

castlecake2.0Mar 01, 2025

Not sure if this is new or not but digging the lighting

Streetway AgainFeb 20, 2025

I mean it’s good the seas is getting fixed, but realistically with an update, what much can you really do? The pavilion needs a better ride, but honestly idk what much more you can do with seas with Nemo. It wasn’t built to be a dark ride with show scenes really, and I don’t know what other aquatic ip’s there are. And as much as I love 80s Epcot, I don’t know how much of a draw the seacabs would be. Though I do think seabase alpha could be a good premise for a really good dark ride+post show. With the right leadership, I’d be ok with the living seas getting the Tokyo space treatment, if it wasn’t just another IP dump. I honestly wonder if that happens to any future world pavilions eventually? There’s only so many times you can totally retheme something as opposed to update. Probably not. Fun to dream tho.

castlecake2.0Feb 18, 2025

Something to do with that, they have sensors that monitor the light intrusion in the tanks

Grantwil93Feb 18, 2025

Id assume maybe they have like a Day/Nighr cycle with the lights in the building? And after 11pm till maybe 7am or something the tank lights are off. Considering most of the fish in there are surface to shallow dwelling species. Idk though. Maybe less about sleep and more about consistency of an indoor environment.

ToTBellHopFeb 13, 2025

Fish don’t really sleep. I’m not sure closing at 7 pm helps them chill more, and if it did, why were they okay with chill-deprived fish over the last decade? Monsters.

DarkMetroid567Feb 13, 2025

too be fair it’s very hard to tell what is and isn’t a joke on this forum lol

Grantwil93Feb 13, 2025

I think it's funny that there are giant construction walls in there and speculation still persists. I literally just asked a CM out front of the ride at night and they said it's just cause of construction going on behind the walls and above the main tank. The crews need more time cause the fish need to sleep. This was done as a multi month temporary thing rather than closing the pavilion outright for a month. At least, that's what they said and that checks out to me. I personally wish it was something more exciting 😅

HauntedPirateJan 19, 2025

wdwfan22Jan 19, 2025

Not true at all. The seas with Nemo and Friends has quite a bit of maintenance work being done. The early closure will assist with this. It’s not permanent

Cmdr_CrimsonJan 19, 2025

Throughout the 00's most of FW would close at 7PM with the exception of M:S, TT, SSE, and Soarin since everyone shifted to WS by then..Unless their was an EMH and you had the wristband on they would allow you to get in some of the early closed Pavillions..

Centauri Space StationJan 19, 2025

Sporadically at the very least, not sure if they extended it during certain times of the year, but I visited several times when most of it closed at 7. Not sure the exact year but WOM is listed here and it states Future World closes at 7 directly above The Land pavilion on the map.

Mr. SullivanJan 19, 2025

I don't remember the time at all happened, but I absolutely do a remember a time when World Showcase opened later than Future World in the morning and then Future World closed and World Showcase stayed open later in the evening. Phased closure of EPCOT has been something they can do at the very least since i was a little kid, but they've not done it in several years.