Visitation · National Historic Site

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Fort Raleigh, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 43 degrees. An average June draws 51,089 visits where an average January draws 5,397. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 7.5 percent from 248,139 in 2019 to 266,775 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 Manteo AP, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 13 feet, station USW00013766 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	266,775	-2.9%
2024	274,783	+4.3%
2023	263,571	-8.4%
2022	287,650	-2.0%
2021	293,447	+91.1%
2020	153,519	-38.1%
2019	248,139	-5.0%
2018	261,198	-5.0%
2017	274,981	-5.9%
2016	292,367	+0.9%

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 USW00013766, 13 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.