Visitation · National Historic Site

Manzanar National Historic Site visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Manzanar, when the average temperature nearby is 69 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 44 degrees. May runs about 2.8 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 1.7 percent, from 97,380 in 2019 to 95,764 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 Independence, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 3,950 feet, station USC00044232 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, 2001 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	95,764	+2.0%
2024	93,854	-11.0%
2023	105,416	-9.8%
2022	116,843	-0.2%
2021	117,113	+79.4%
2020	65,289	-33.0%
2019	97,380	-6.4%
2018	104,081	-9.1%
2017	114,461	+8.7%
2016	105,307	+10.5%

Visitation at other parks

Golden Gate National Recreation Area Yosemite National Park San Juan National Historic Site Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

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 USC00044232, 3,950 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.