EPCOT festivals are a way of life for us at DFB.

We live for the next festival. When one is done, we’re prepping for the next. We try every single booth at all four festivals and check out all the entertainment and merchandise. If there’s an EPCOT festival logo on it, we’re checking it out.

Possibly our favorite EPCOT festival is the Food and Wine Festival. This fall festival is loaded with fun! As we wait for the dates of the 2024 Food and Wine Festival to be released, we’re starting to wonder if it might be starting a little later this year.

We’ve started prepping for the 2024 Flower and Garden Festival in EPCOT, but we’ve also started looking a little further into the future at the 2024 Food and Wine Festival. This got us predicting when we may get an announcement for the festival’s dates and how long it might run in 2024. We thought about the following four clues that have us questioning if it’s going to be shorter this year than the past few years.

It Used to Start in August

Way back before the pandemic, the Food and Wine Festival started in August and ran through November. Close to the last day in August, we would gather our crew and head to EPCOT to test out all the food and drinks. But all of that ended in 2019.

In 2020, closely following the re-opening of the parks, the Food and Wine Festival began in JULY! We have continued to see it opening in July since then, but is it possible that Disney will turn things around and go back to the old ways of the festival? It was meant to be a fall festival after all.

The 2023 Festival Started 10+ Days Later Than in 2020, 2021, and 2022

Following this same idea, the 2023 Food and Wine Festival started 10 or more days later in July than in 2020, 2021, and 2022. It wasn’t August, but it was late July instead of mid-July.

Is it possible that 2023 was the beginning of a new trend meant to start the Food and Wine Festival later in the year again? It could be possible that Disney is working it back into a fall festival rather than a half-summer, half-fall festival.

The 2024 Flower and Garden Was Shortened

Now hear us out, the 2024 Flower and Garden Festival was shortened by a whopping 36 days compared to 2023! And we just told you that the 2023 Food and Wine Festival was shorter by 10 or more days than the previous three years.

It’s unclear why the Flower and Garden Festival was shortened by a whole month this year, but could the Food and Wine Festival suffer the same fate? This makes us very curious about the start and/or end date of the fall festival that we so dearly love.

Is Disney Trying to Make Space for a New Festival?

If we put all of these clues together — a shorter 2024 Flower and Garden Festival, shortening the 2023 Food and Wine Festival, and the fact that it used to start in August — we have to wonder what is going to happen with all the time between the Flower and Garden Festival and the Food and Wine Festival, if indeed it is shorter.

As we discussed in a separate post, is there any chance that both the Flower and Garden and Food and Wine Festivals are being shortened to accommodate a new, summer festival? There are already festivals for each of the other three seasons — spring (Flower and Garden Festival), fall (Food and Wine Festival), and winter (Festival of the Arts)– why not include a summer festival to round it out? By shortening the Flower and Garden Festival and the Food and Wine Festival, Disney would have two or more months to bring in a new addition.

While this is all just speculation at this point, it is possible. The 2024 Food and Wine Festival may be shorter this year than in the past few years, but we’ll just have to wait and find out! (And we wouldn’t complain about a NEW festival!)

In the meantime, keep following DFB for more Disney news!

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Do you think Disney will shorten the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival in 2024? Let us know in the comments!

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