Knott's Berry Farm Hours: Open & Close Times, Holiday & Sunday Hours by Location

Knott's Berry Farm Hours Today: What the Calendar Said on November 8

The park is not on a fixed weekly timetable, so the date is the question. This page reports what the official calendar listed on the day we read it, November 8, 2026.

knotts.com no longer has its own hours page. The address plan-your-visit/park-hours forwards to sixflags.com/knotts, because Six Flags runs the park's website. The hours live in a calendar at sixflags.com/knotts/park-hours where each date opens a panel that reads HOURS FOR followed by the date, with one line for the park and one for the water park.

For Sunday, November 8, 2026 the Park line read 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM and the Waterpark line read Closed. The next day, Monday, November 9, showed 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, three hours shorter. That swing between a Sunday and the following Monday is the reason a generic answer to knott's berry farm hours today is not reliable.

What Time Does Knott's Berry Farm Close? Weekday, Friday and Weekend Patterns

Across the 19 dates where the calendar listed hours, the park opened at 10:00 AM on most days and at 9:00 AM on three of them: December 26, December 31 and October 2, 2027. Closing time is where the dates differ most. The earliest close we saw was 5:00 PM and the latest was 1:00 AM.

• 5:00 PM: Saturday, October 2, 2027 (the park also opened at 9:00 AM that day).
• 6:00 PM: Monday, November 9, 2026 and Tuesday, January 12, 2027.
• 7:00 PM: Thursday, December 24, 2026.
• 8:00 PM: Friday, November 13, 2026.
• 9:00 PM: Sunday, November 8, 2026.
• 10:00 PM: ten dates, among them Saturday, November 14, Thanksgiving Day, December 26, January 1, Valentine's Day 2027 and Saturday, March 13, 2027.
• 11:00 PM: Sunday, July 4, 2027 and Saturday, September 4, 2027.
• 1:00 AM: Thursday, December 31, 2026.

The off-season pattern in our sample is simple. Weekdays closed at 6:00 PM, a Friday closed at 8:00 PM and Saturdays closed at 10:00 PM. A Sunday was in between at 9:00 PM in November and at 10:00 PM on Valentine's Day. Holiday dates and summer weekends pushed the close to 10:00 PM or later.

A line on the calendar covers the park. It does not tell you when individual rides stop loading, when restaurants stop serving or when a show ends, and we did not read any of those times. The park also keeps a scheduled ride closures page on the same site, which is the place to look for a ride you care about.

Knott's Berry Farm Hours by Date: Every Day We Read, November 2026 to October 2027

These are 20 individual dates, not a full year. Dates between them were not read, so use them to see the range rather than as a schedule.

Saturday, October 2, 2027 is the odd entry: a 9:00 AM opening and a 5:00 PM close, shorter than the summer Saturdays around it. The calendar panel did not explain it when we read it, and one date is not a pattern, so we are not guessing at the reason.

Is Knott's Berry Farm Open on Thanksgiving? Hours for November 26 and 27

Yes, on the calendar we read. Thursday, November 26, 2026, Thanksgiving Day, showed park hours of 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM, and Friday, November 27 showed the same 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Both days listed the water park as Closed.

Compare that with the plain November weekdays. Monday, November 9 closed at 6:00 PM and Friday, November 13 closed at 8:00 PM, so the Thanksgiving pair is four hours and two hours longer than those ordinary days. Saturday, November 14 already ran until 10:00 PM, which means the holiday close matches a normal busy Saturday rather than beating it.

Knott's Berry Farm Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and December 26 Hours

Thursday, December 24, 2026 showed park hours of 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, an early evening close for the day. Saturday, December 26 went the other way and listed 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, one of only three dates in our sample that opened before 10:00 AM.

The two dates either side of December 25 that we could read, December 24 and December 26, had very different closes: 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Do not assume the hours for one holiday date from its neighbor.

Knott's Berry Farm New Year's Eve Hours: Open Until 1 AM?

On Thursday, December 31, 2026 the calendar listed 9:00 AM to 1:00 AM, which means the close falls after midnight on the morning of January 1. That was the latest close of any date we read, two hours past the 11:00 PM closes on July 4 and September 4, 2027.

New Year's Day itself, Friday, January 1, 2027, showed 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. The following Tuesday we read, January 12, 2027, was back to 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. After the holiday window the weekday close dropped by four hours.

Knott's Berry Farm Hours in January, February and March 2027

The park did not appear to shut down for winter. The calendar listed hours for Tuesday, January 12, Sunday, February 14 and Saturday, March 13, 2027, and the water park line read Closed on all three. Those three dates ran 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM and 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM.

So the weekday and weekend split from November continues through the first quarter in the dates we read: a Tuesday at 6:00 PM, a Sunday and a Saturday at 10:00 PM. We read only one date per month, so we cannot say how many other days follow that pattern.

Easter, Memorial Day and Labor Day have no fixed holiday schedule that we found, and we did not read those dates on the calendar. Open the entry for the exact date.

Knott's Soak City Hours and Season: When Does the Water Park Open in 2027?

Soak City is a separately gated water park of 15 acres. Its page says Open Select Dates, May 22 to September 6, 2027, and describes 23 slides. That is a window, not a daily schedule, so some days inside it may still be closed. The Waterpark line on the calendar read Closed for every date we read before May 2027.

Inside the window, the five summer dates we opened all gave water park hours, and each one ended well before the park itself closed. Because the water park is gated separately, its hours are not the same thing as the park hours shown beside them.

The longest water park day we saw was Sunday, July 4, which ran until 7:00 PM. The shortest was the Tuesday, June 15 date, with a 5:00 PM close. On the same two days the park itself closed at 11:00 PM and 10:00 PM.

Knott's Berry Farm Summer Hours and July 4th 2027

The summer 2027 dates we read all opened at 10:00 AM. Saturday, May 29, Tuesday, June 15 and Thursday, July 15 closed at 10:00 PM, which makes a mid-June Tuesday as long as a Saturday in our sample. Sunday, July 4 and Saturday, September 4 closed at 11:00 PM, the latest of the summer dates.

Independence Day 2027 falls on a Sunday, and the calendar listed the park from 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM and the water park from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Both were the latest closes on their respective lines among the summer dates we read.

How to Check Knott's Berry Farm Hours, and Where the Park Is

The park is at 8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90620, according to its directions page. It is a single park, so there is no list of locations to choose from, only a calendar of dates.

• Open sixflags.com/knotts/park-hours, which is where knotts.com sends you.
• Pick the month and click the date of your visit. A greyed-out day has no confirmed hours yet, as Christmas Day did when we read it.
• Read the Park line first, then the Waterpark line.
• For specific rides, check the scheduled ride closures page on the same site before you go.

The same site also has pages for parking, Fast Lane, military discounts, season passes and memberships, and a Knott's Hotel listing. We did not read prices or terms on any of them, so this page gives none.

The events page names Knott's Merry Farm, Scary Farm and the Boysenberry Festival. We did not read dates for those events, and event nights may change what the calendar shows for a given date, so look at the date itself. Other parks that use the same Six Flags calendar layout are covered on these pages.