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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park visitation by month and year

December is the busiest month at Dayton Aviation Heritage, when the average temperature nearby is 33 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average December draws 11,891 visits where an average January draws 1,329. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 15.8 percent, from 94,709 in 2019 to 79,760 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 Dayton Mcd, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 720 feet, station USC00332067 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, 1996 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	79,760	-8.4%
2024	87,032	-3.3%
2023	89,976	+10.7%
2022	81,303	+23.7%
2021	65,735	+65.0%
2020	39,851	-57.9%
2019	94,709	+1.2%
2018	93,541	-6.2%
2017	99,700	+4.6%
2016	95,334	+29.6%

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 USC00332067, 720 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.