Visitation · National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Cumberland Island, when the average temperature nearby is 60 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 81 degrees. March runs about 2.7 times the visits of August. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits rose 11.9 percent from 53,904 in 2019 to 60,299 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 Brunswick 23 S, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 25 feet, station USW00063856 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	60,299	-6.8%
2024	64,706	-12.3%
2023	73,812	+14.6%
2022	64,387	-10.9%
2021	72,240	+93.7%
2020	37,295	-30.8%
2019	53,904	-3.1%
2018	55,650	+7.1%
2017	51,937	-16.1%
2016	61,896	+3.4%

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 USW00063856, 25 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.