Visitation · National Historical Park

Independence National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Independence, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 35 degrees. July runs about 3.4 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 57.5 percent, from 4,532,459 in 2019 to 1,926,580 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 Phila Franklin Inst, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 60 feet, station USC00366886 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	1,926,580	-31.2%
2024	2,798,651	-8.0%
2023	3,042,598	+13.2%
2022	2,688,302	+79.7%
2021	1,495,686	+64.9%
2020	907,090	-80.0%
2019	4,532,459	-1.0%
2018	4,576,456	-4.5%
2017	4,790,758	-5.5%
2016	5,067,510	+17.5%

Visitation at other parks

Appalachian National Scenic Trail Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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 USC00366886, 60 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.