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Colonial National Historical Park visitation by month and year

April is the busiest month at Colonial, when the average temperature nearby is 59 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 42 degrees. April runs about 2.7 times the visits of February. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 52.4 percent, from 3,327,268 in 2019 to 1,582,994 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 Williamsburg 2 N, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 70 feet, station USC00449151 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	1,582,994	-38.0%
2024	2,551,228	-5.2%
2023	2,691,931	-2.5%
2022	2,762,273	-11.3%
2021	3,114,420	+5.7%
2020	2,946,594	-11.4%
2019	3,327,268	+1.0%
2018	3,294,224	-1.2%
2017	3,333,448	-0.6%
2016	3,352,656	+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 USC00449151, 70 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.