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Buck Island Reef National Monument visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Buck Island Reef, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. September is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 84 degrees. March runs about 3.8 times the visits of September. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 8.1 percent from 37,085 in 2019 to 40,079 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 Christiansted Ft, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 30 feet, station VQC00671740 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	40,079	-5.2%
2024	42,289	-8.5%
2023	46,207	+1.9%
2022	45,365	-0.7%
2021	45,664	+184.8%
2020	16,032	-56.8%
2019	37,085	+18.1%
2018	31,411	-5.1%
2017	33,082	-15.0%
2016	38,929	-7.2%

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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 VQC00671740, 30 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.