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John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at John Fitzgerald Kennedy, when the average temperature nearby is 53 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average October draws 3,882 visits where an average February draws 29. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 61.1 percent, from 24,838 in 2019 to 9,664 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2022 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Jamaica Plain, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 95 feet, station USC00193890 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	9,664	-46.8%
2024	18,180	+122.2%
2023	8,182	+8082.0%
2022	100
2021	0	-100.0%
2020	451	-98.2%
2019	24,838	+3.2%
2018	24,077	-20.8%
2017	30,399	+19.4%
2016	25,467	+37.8%

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 USC00193890, 95 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.