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Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fort McHenry, when the average temperature nearby is 82 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 41 degrees. July runs about 5.1 times the visits of December. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 32.5 percent, from 419,545 in 2019 to 283,027 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 Md Sci Ctr Baltimore, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 20 feet, station USW00093784 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	283,027	-28.2%
2024	394,175	-8.3%
2023	429,967	+92.0%
2022	223,957	+49.2%
2021	150,075	-8.1%
2020	163,224	-61.1%
2019	419,545	-13.7%
2018	486,113	-17.9%
2017	591,861	-3.1%
2016	610,987	-1.1%

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 USW00093784, 20 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.