Visitation · National Seashore

Assateague Island National Seashore visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Assateague Island, when the average temperature nearby is 77 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 39 degrees. An average July draws 476,245 visits where an average January draws 51,790. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits were about level between 2019 and 2025, 2,344,536 against 2,325,195.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Assateague, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 10 feet, station USC00180335 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

Annual visits, 1979 to 2025

Recreation visits per calendar year. A year with a missing month is left blank rather than estimated.

The last ten years

Year	Recreation visits	Change on prior year
2025	2,325,195	+1.9%
2024	2,282,498	-2.9%
2023	2,351,874	+0.5%
2022	2,340,269	-12.1%
2021	2,662,716	+7.3%
2020	2,481,660	+5.8%
2019	2,344,536	+9.7%
2018	2,136,889	-9.0%
2017	2,347,167	+3.5%
2016	2,267,821	-0.3%

Visitation at other parks

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Source: NPS Visitor Use Statistics, monthly recreation visits, as compiled for Publicopia Labs. A year is shown only when all twelve months were reported. Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00180335, 10 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.