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Harry S Truman National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Harry S Truman, when the average temperature nearby is 79 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. July runs about 6.5 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 37.2 percent, from 30,746 in 2019 to 19,296 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 Lees Summit Muni AP, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 997 feet, station USW00053879 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, 1984 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	19,296	-19.9%
2024	24,102	-8.5%
2023	26,327	+22.6%
2022	21,471	+76.7%
2021	12,148	+28.6%
2020	9,446	-69.3%
2019	30,746	-6.5%
2018	32,878	-27.6%
2017	45,435	+31.3%
2016	34,616	+5.5%

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 USW00053879, 997 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.