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Monocacy National Battlefield visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Monocacy, when the average temperature nearby is 79 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 38 degrees. July runs about 2.6 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 19.4 percent, from 144,969 in 2019 to 116,902 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 Frederick Police Brks, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 380 feet, station USC00183348 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, 1991 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	116,902	+0.3%
2024	116,520	-11.8%
2023	132,098	+3.9%
2022	127,111	-7.4%
2021	137,300	-11.5%
2020	155,116	+7.0%
2019	144,969	+70.8%
2018	84,901	-25.4%
2017	113,820	+30.0%
2016	87,547	+35.5%

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 USC00183348, 380 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.