Visitation · National Military Park

Gettysburg National Military Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Gettysburg, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. June runs about 6.6 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 21.0 percent, from 925,117 in 2019 to 730,398 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 Eisenhower NHS, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 540 feet, station USC00362537 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	730,398	-1.5%
2024	741,574	-0.1%
2023	742,173	-2.9%
2022	764,576	+11.2%
2021	687,631	+28.2%
2020	536,553	-42.0%
2019	925,117	-2.6%
2018	949,989	-8.5%
2017	1,038,649	-4.8%
2016	1,091,320	+1.0%

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 USC00362537, 540 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.