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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Jean Lafitte, when the average temperature nearby is 62 degrees. September is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 78 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 28,625 against 11,975. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 61.6 percent, from 590,329 in 2019 to 226,543 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 Marrero 9 SSW, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 3 feet, station USC00165926 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	226,543	+6.6%
2024	212,591	-14.4%
2023	248,353	-7.9%
2022	269,748	+8.9%
2021	247,749	+28.6%
2020	192,601	-67.4%
2019	590,329	+11.4%
2018	529,878	+16.0%
2017	456,666	+4.2%
2016	438,420	+8.1%

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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 USC00165926, 3 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.