Visitation · National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Dry Tortugas, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. October is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 80 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 8,643 against 4,965. The warmest month is August, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 12.8 percent from 79,200 in 2019 to 89,355 in 2025.

Back to the Dry Tortugas page · Plot Dry Tortugas against other parks on Publicopia Labs

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 Dry Tortugas, under a mile from the park's reference point at 3 feet, station USC00082418 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	89,355	+5.3%
2024	84,873	+0.7%
2023	84,285	+7.4%
2022	78,488	-6.4%
2021	83,817	+72.7%
2020	48,543	-38.7%
2019	79,200	+39.4%
2018	56,810	+4.7%
2017	54,281	-26.3%
2016	73,661	+3.9%

Visitation at other parks

Gulf Islands National Seashore Canaveral National Seashore Great Smoky Mountains National Park Zion National Park

Compare Dry Tortugas with Biscayne National Park

Compare Dry Tortugas with Everglades National Park

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 USC00082418, 3 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.