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Top 10 Most Visited Water Parks in the World

By Dhiraj Sharma · Published November 11, 2026

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Chimelong Water Park in Guangzhou led the world's water parks in 2025 with about 2.56 million visits, according to the TEA Global Experience Index. Aquaventure World in Dubai was second, with 2.0 million, a figure reported as it overtook Disney's Florida water parks for the second year running ^[1]^[2]^[3].

A 2017 popular list of "awesome" US water parks ranked local resorts such as a Great Wolf Lodge in Michigan first and omitted the global attendance leaders entirely. This article uses the 2025 TEA attendance table, published in 2026, and therefore covers parks in China, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Germany, the Bahamas, the United States, Romania and Thailand. Some of the European entries are large thermal spa complexes that the index groups with water parks; that is how the source classifies them, and it is labelled in the entries ^[1]^[3].

Figures are 2025 visits, rounded as reported, and should be read as the latest complete global count as of November 2026. They are not a judgement of which park is the most elaborate or the most pleasant on a given day, and they can move from year to year when a park adds capacity, closes for work, or when a neighbouring destination has a strong or weak tourist season ^[1]. Disney, Universal and Atlantis all appear, but so do parks that rarely feature in English-language photo essays, which is the point of using an attendance table rather than a taste list.

Key Facts

Attendance is from the TEA Global Experience Index for 2025, as reported in 2026 industry coverage. Ties or near ties are shown with the published figures.

Most Visited Water Parks at a Glance

Rank	Park	Location	2025 attendance	Type
1	Chimelong Water Park	Guangzhou, China	About 2.56 million	Outdoor destination water park
2	Aquaventure World, Dubai	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	2.0 million	Destination water park at Atlantis, Palm
3	Thermas dos Laranjais	Olimpia, Brazil	About 1.95 million	Large Brazilian thermal water park
4	Therme Erding	Erding, Germany	About 1.95 million	Thermal spa and water complex
5	Aquaventure, Nassau	Paradise Island, Bahamas	About 1.79 million	Atlantis Bahamas water park
6	Disney's Typhoon Lagoon	Orlando, United States	About 1.76 million	Disney World water park
7	Therme Bucharest	Bucharest, Romania	About 1.7 million	Thermal spa and water complex
8	Universal Volcano Bay	Orlando, United States	About 1.6 million	Universal Orlando water park
9	Siam Park	Tenerife, Spain	About 1.6 million	Destination water park
10	Aquaventure Waterpark, Sanya	Sanya, China	About 1.55 million	Atlantis Sanya water park

1. Chimelong Water Park

Chimelong Water Park, part of the Chimelong complex in Guangzhou, recorded about 2.563 million visits in 2025, the highest total in the TEA water-park table ^[1]^[3]. It has led, or contended for the lead in, global water-park attendance for several years, supported by a huge regional population and a cluster of other Chimelong attractions.

The park is a conventional destination water park, with slides, wave pools and high-capacity circulation, rather than a thermal spa. That matters when comparing it with Therme Erding or Therme Bucharest, which share the TEA list but offer a different kind of visit ^[1].

First place here is an attendance fact, not an architectural prize. In raw visits, no other water park passed 2.5 million in the 2025 count ^[1]^[3].

2. Aquaventure World, Dubai

Aquaventure World, at Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, recorded 2.0 million visits in 2025, second in the world and, according to contemporary reports, ahead of Disney's Florida water parks for a second year ^[2]^[3]. The park has been expanded into a very large desert destination, with slides, a lazy river, beaches and access bundled with the resort.

Two million visits is a round published figure, close to the Brazilian and German parks just behind it. Small differences in how tickets are counted could matter at this margin, so second, third and fourth should be read as a tight group rather than as a wide gap ^[1]^[2].

The Atlantis brand appears three times in this top ten, in Dubai, Nassau and Sanya, which is itself a fact about how the industry is organised ^[3].

3. Thermas dos Laranjais

Thermas dos Laranjais, in Olimpia in Sao Paulo state, recorded about 1.95 million visits in 2025, tied in practical terms with Therme Erding and third on the published table ^[1]^[3]. It is a major Brazilian thermal water park and has often sat at or near the top of earlier TEA water-park lists.

The park is a domestic destination more than an international airline stop, which is why it is less famous in English-language travel writing than Typhoon Lagoon or Siam Park, despite drawing more people than either of those in 2025 ^[1].

Its place is a reminder that global attendance is not only an Orlando or Dubai story ^[3].

4. Therme Erding

Therme Erding, near Munich, also recorded about 1.95 million visits in 2025 ^[1]. It is a large thermal spa complex with pools, slides and wellness areas, and the TEA index groups it with water parks. Visitors should know that before they imagine a Florida-style park of only outdoor slides.

The high count reflects year-round indoor capacity as well as summer outdoor use, an advantage over purely seasonal parks in colder climates ^[1]^[3]. Erding has grown by repeated expansion into one of Europe's largest such complexes.

On a stricter "slides and wave pools only" list it might be classified differently. On the industry table used here, it is fourth, level with the Brazilian park ^[1].

5. Aquaventure, Nassau

Aquaventure at Atlantis on Paradise Island, Bahamas, recorded about 1.79 million visits in 2025, fifth in the world ^[1]^[3]. It is the older Atlantic cousin of the Dubai park, and it remains one of the main reasons cruise and resort visitors go to that part of Nassau.

The total is just above Typhoon Lagoon's 1.76 million, another close margin ^[1]. Resort parks like this one count many guests who are already staying on site, which is a different business model from a stand-alone city water park.

It is the highest-ranked park in the Caribbean, and the second of three Aquaventure sites in the top ten ^[3].

6. Disney's Typhoon Lagoon

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon, at Walt Disney World in Florida, recorded about 1.762 million visits in 2025, sixth in the world ^[1]^[2]^[3]. For years it and Blizzard Beach were the automatic North American reference points; the 2025 table shows them no longer alone at the top.

The park's surf pool and themed slides remain widely known, and its total is still enormous by any ordinary standard. What has changed is the rest of the chart: Guangzhou, Dubai, Olimpia and Erding now sit ahead ^[2].

Disney's second Florida water park is not in this top ten on the published 2025 figures used here, which is why only Typhoon Lagoon is listed ^[1].

7. Therme Bucharest

Therme Bucharest recorded about 1.7 million visits in 2025, seventh on the TEA table ^[1]^[3]. Like Erding, it is a large thermal and leisure-water complex, not a classic outdoor American water park, and it has become one of the most visited attractions in Romania.

Year-round operation again helps the attendance figure. The park is a regional destination for south-eastern Europe as well as a local one ^[1].

Its presence, with Erding, means two of the top seven are European thermal complexes. Anyone using this list as a slide-park shootout should read those two entries with that qualification ^[3].

8. Universal Volcano Bay

Universal's Volcano Bay, in Orlando, recorded about 1.6 million visits in 2025, eighth, in a near tie with Siam Park ^[1]^[3]. It is Universal Orlando's water park, built around a central volcano complex and a system of virtual queues rather than a traditional line of concrete slide towers only.

Together with Typhoon Lagoon, it keeps Orlando in the global top ten twice, even though neither Florida park is first or second any longer ^[2]. The two Orlando totals, added together, still exceed any single park on this list, but this ranking is of individual parks, not of metropolitan areas.

Eighth place is a high global rank, about 1.6 million visits, in a very crowded tourist region ^[1].

9. Siam Park

Siam Park, on Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, also recorded about 1.6 million visits in 2025 ^[1]^[3]. It is often praised in enthusiast and travel writing for the quality of its slides and landscaping, and the attendance figure now puts that reputation on a global numbers table as well.

The park is a destination for European holiday flights as much as for island residents. Its place beside Volcano Bay, with a similar published total, is a near tie; the index order is followed here, but the gap is not a wide one ^[1].

It is the only European park in this top ten that is a classic outdoor destination water park rather than a thermal complex ^[3].

10. Aquaventure Waterpark, Sanya

Aquaventure Waterpark at Atlantis Sanya, on Hainan island in China, recorded about 1.55 million visits in 2025, tenth ^[1]^[3]. It is the third Atlantis Aquaventure on this list, and it shows the brand's attendance strength in both the Middle East and China.

Tenth place is close to the Orlando and Tenerife parks just above it. A single good or bad season could reorder the bottom four, which is why these figures are dated to the 2025 TEA count and not treated as a permanent hierarchy ^[1].

China appears twice in the top ten, at first and at tenth, with very different park types and locations: a Guangzhou cluster park and a tropical island resort park ^[3].

Conclusion

The 2025 attendance table, as reported in 2026, is more global than older English-language "best of" lists, and it mixes classic slide parks with thermal complexes ^[1]^[3]. Chimelong's lead is clear; the rest of the top ten is tightly packed between 1.55 and 2.0 million visits. That crowding is the practical lesson for anyone still using a decade-old American resort list: the centre of gravity has moved, and several of the new leaders are little known outside their own regions.

Readers who want a list by land area, slide height or unique rides will get a different ten. Acreage rankings, for example, have sometimes placed parks such as Calypso in Canada far ahead of the attendance leaders ^[3]. This article answers only the question the TEA index is built to answer: which parks drew the most recorded visits in 2025, as published in the following year's industry documents ^[1].

Finepedia's existing article on the most visited theme parks is the dry-park counterpart to this table and uses the same family of TEA reports, with a different set of venues and a different mix of coastal resorts, city parks and studio complexes that are spread across several continents in the same official annual survey.