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Biscayne National Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Biscayne, when the average temperature nearby is 81 degrees. October is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 82 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 61,658 against 36,611. The warmest month is August, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 31.3 percent, from 708,522 in 2019 to 486,567 in 2025.

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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 Cape Florida, 13 miles from the park's reference point at 6 feet, station USC00081306 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	486,567	-5.0%
2024	512,213	-10.3%
2023	571,242	-18.5%
2022	701,023	-0.7%
2021	705,655	+75.2%
2020	402,770	-43.2%
2019	708,522	+51.0%
2018	469,253	+5.0%
2017	446,961	-13.2%
2016	514,709	+1.3%

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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 USC00081306, 6 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.