This ranks Europe’s theme parks by annual attendance. The top four rows come from the TEA Global Experience Index 2025, the 20th annual edition of the report produced by the Themed Entertainment Association with research partners Entertainment + Culture Advisors and The Park Database, released October 27, 2026, and covering 2025 attendance; the earlier name TEA/AECOM Theme Index has not applied for several editions, since AECOM is no longer a named partner. TEA’s press materials for that edition name individual figures only for the European parks large enough to reach its global top 25 — Disneyland Park, Europa-Park, Disney Adventure World (reported under its prior name, Walt Disney Studios Park) and Efteling — and give just an aggregate note for the rest of the region. Rows below the top four draw on each park’s own most recently disclosed attendance, or on the Index’s fuller regional Europe breakdown as relayed by trade press, mostly for 2025 and marked where it is 2024. All figures are published estimates, not audited turnstile counts.
Disneyland Park at Disneyland Paris led Europe with about 10.8 million visitors in 2025, up 5.7% on the year and roughly 73% more than second-place Europa-Park’s 6.25 million. The resort’s second gate, renamed Disney Adventure World on March 29, 2026 (it operated as Walt Disney Studios Park through the 2025 season covered by the TEA data), also grew 5.7% to about 5.92 million, meaning Disneyland Paris holds two of Europe’s top four spots.
The Full Ranking
Figures are 2025 attendance estimates unless noted; the top four are from the TEA Global Experience Index 2025, the rest from each park’s own most recent disclosure or trade coverage of the Index’s regional data.
| # | Park | Location | Attendance (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disneyland Park | Marne-la-Vallée, France | 10,800,000 (2025) |
| 2 | Europa-Park | Rust, Germany | 6,250,000 (2025) |
| 3 | Disney Adventure World | Marne-la-Vallée, France | 5,920,000 (2025) |
| 4 | Efteling | Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands | 5,780,000 (2025) |
| 5 | Tivoli Gardens | Copenhagen, Denmark | 4,300,000 (2025) |
| 6 | PortAventura Park | Salou, Spain | 3,800,000 (2025) |
| 7 | Gardaland | Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy | 3,120,000 (2025) |
| 8 | Puy du Fou | Les Epesses, France | 3,000,000 (2025) |
| 9 | Parc Astérix | Plailly, France | 2,950,000 (2025) |
| 10 | Alton Towers | Alton, Staffordshire, UK | 2,825,000 (2025) |
| 11 | Liseberg | Gothenburg, Sweden | 2,500,000 (2025) |
| 12 | Parque Warner Madrid | San Martín de la Vega, Spain | 2,250,000 (2025) |
| 13 | Phantasialand | Brühl, Germany | 2,100,000 (2025) |
| 14 | Energylandia | Zator, Poland | 2,100,000 (2025) |
Why Disneyland Paris Leads by Such a Wide Margin
Disneyland Park’s roughly 10.8 million visitors in 2025 is not close to Europe’s second-place park. Part of the gap comes from scale: the Disneyland Paris resort sells multi-day, multi-park tickets to an international audience drawn from across the EU and the UK, and it sits within a few hours of Paris, Brussels, London and Frankfurt by train. Its sister gate, renamed Disney Adventure World on March 29, 2026 after a roughly €2 billion overhaul that added the World of Frozen land, grew at the same 5.7% rate and placed third on its own, ahead of long-established national parks like Tivoli Gardens and PortAventura.
Below the leader, the next three parks are much closer together. Europa-Park, a family-owned park in southwestern Germany with no single intellectual-property license to lean on, is the largest non-Disney park on the list at about 6.25 million visitors, but it is only about 330,000 ahead of third-place Disney Adventure World and about 470,000 ahead of fourth-place Efteling. Europa-Park, Disney Adventure World and Efteling all draw heavily from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, reflecting how much European theme park attendance clusters in the corridor between the Rhine and the Benelux countries.
How the Attendance Figures Work, and Why Coverage Beyond the Top Four Is Thinner
TEA’s Global Experience Index aggregates attendance estimates that operators report or that researchers model from ticketing, financial filings and park-capacity data; it is not an independently audited turnstile count. Its October 2026 press materials for the 2025 edition disclose individual park figures only for the parks large enough to crack the global top 25 — Disneyland Park, Europa-Park, Disney Adventure World (reported under its prior name, Walt Disney Studios Park) and Efteling. A fuller park-by-park European table exists inside the full report, which TEA distributes through a request form rather than a public PDF; figures for the parks below the top four, including Gardaland, Alton Towers, Parque Warner Madrid, Phantasialand and Energylandia, are drawn from that regional breakdown as relayed by trade coverage rather than from TEA’s own press release.
For the parks below that top four, this list also cross-checks each operator’s own most recent disclosure where available: Tivoli Gardens and Liseberg from their 2025 annual results, PortAventura Park and Puy du Fou and Parc Astérix from 2025 season-end press figures, and Energylandia from its own confirmed total, which stands at 2.1 million for 2024; the 2025 figure used here for Energylandia comes from the trade-reported regional breakdown rather than a fresh operator disclosure, so treat it as an estimate rather than a confirmed count. Alton Towers’ 2.825 million (up 13%, the fastest growth among Europe’s top ten) and Parque Warner Madrid’s flat 2.25 million both come from that same trade-reported regional table; UK business press confirms Merlin Entertainments’ broader 2025 visitor numbers rose group-wide but does not itself break out Alton Towers’ individual figure, so the specific number relies on the regional breakdown rather than an Alton Towers press release. Because these come from different reporting methods and years, treat rankings below Efteling as a close approximation rather than a single standardized count.
Notable Entries and What This Means for Planning
Puy du Fou stands out as the one park in the top 10 built around theatrical night shows and historical reenactments rather than rides, drawing attendance close to Parc Astérix despite a very different format; its separate Spanish site, Puy du Fou España, is excluded here since it is a distinct park and its 2025 figure could not be independently confirmed this session. Alton Towers posted the fastest growth of any confirmed park on this list, with attendance up 13% in 2025 to about 2.825 million, pulling it ahead of Liseberg, Parque Warner Madrid, Phantasialand and Energylandia. Parque Warner Madrid held essentially flat at 2.25 million, enough to place just ahead of the pair of theming-heavy German and Polish parks, Phantasialand and Energylandia, which both landed at about 2.1 million.
Phantasialand caps daily ticket sales, so its attendance reflects a deliberate capacity limit rather than a drop-off in demand, while Energylandia’s figure continues a longer growth trend after a reported 28% jump the prior year. For visit planning, the ranking is a rough proxy for crowd levels rather than a quality signal: the busiest parks (Disneyland Paris, Europa-Park, Efteling) also tend to have the most developed queue-management and multi-day ticketing systems, while mid-table parks like Gardaland, Liseberg or Tivoli Gardens can feel comparatively uncrowded even in peak season.
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Most Visited Theme Parks in Europe FAQs
What is the most visited theme park in Europe?
Disneyland Park at Disneyland Paris, France, with about 10.8 million visitors in 2025 according to the TEA Global Experience Index, up 5.7% from 2024.
How is theme park attendance in Europe measured and reported?
The top European parks appear in the TEA Global Experience Index, published by the Themed Entertainment Association with research partners Entertainment + Culture Advisors and The Park Database. Figures are operator-reported or researcher-modeled estimates, not audited turnstile counts, and the index’s press release discloses individual European park numbers mainly for parks large enough to reach its global top 25; other parks’ figures here come from each operator’s own released data or trade coverage of the index’s fuller regional tables.
Is Disneyland Paris one park or two?
Disneyland Paris operates two separate gates: Disneyland Park and Disney Adventure World (renamed from Walt Disney Studios Park on March 29, 2026). Both appear separately in attendance rankings, and both placed in Europe’s top four in 2025.
Where does Parque Warner Madrid rank among Europe’s most visited theme parks?
Parque Warner Madrid, in San Martín de la Vega near Madrid, Spain, held roughly flat at about 2.25 million visitors in 2025, placing twelfth among Europe’s most visited theme parks, just ahead of Phantasialand and Energylandia.
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