Visitation · National Seashore

Gulf Islands National Seashore visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Gulf Islands, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 52 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 807,638 against 368,863. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 35.3 percent from 5,600,240 in 2019 to 7,576,923 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 Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 28 feet, station USW00003855 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	7,576,923	-2.9%
2024	7,801,176	-5.8%
2023	8,277,857	+45.6%
2022	5,685,155	+4.1%
2021	5,458,816	+36.1%
2020	4,012,129	-28.4%
2019	5,600,240	+32.4%
2018	4,229,968	+7.0%
2017	3,952,941	-17.2%
2016	4,771,309	+20.0%

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 USW00003855, 28 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.