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General Grant National Memorial visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at General Grant, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. August runs about 5.8 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 44.5 percent, from 113,852 in 2019 to 63,152 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 New York Cntrl Pk Twr, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 130 feet, station USW00094728 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	63,152	-42.9%
2024	110,602	+31.4%
2023	84,153	-36.5%
2022	132,542	+130.6%
2021	57,487	+134.9%
2020	24,475	-78.5%
2019	113,852	+55.2%
2018	73,336	-24.4%
2017	97,005	-11.1%
2016	109,151	+14.3%

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 USW00094728, 130 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.