Visitation · National Seashore

Canaveral National Seashore visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Canaveral, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. November is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 68 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 239,647 against 120,506. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 32.5 percent from 1,884,122 in 2019 to 2,496,947 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 Scottsmoor 2.5 SSW, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 42 feet, station USC00088051 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	2,496,947	+32.5%
2024	1,884,091	-6.7%
2023	2,019,073	-4.9%
2022	2,122,075	-4.3%
2021	2,218,059	+90.7%
2020	1,162,950	-38.3%
2019	1,884,122	+13.6%
2018	1,657,855	+3.7%
2017	1,598,586	-1.9%
2016	1,629,944	-3.5%

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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 USC00088051, 42 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.