Visitation · National Historical Park

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at New Bedford Whaling, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average July draws 2,748 visits where an average January draws 299. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 88.8 percent, from 143,427 in 2019 to 16,089 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 New Bedford Coop, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 18 feet, station USC00195246 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, 1998 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	16,089	-12.2%
2024	18,330	+7.6%
2023	17,034	+25.5%
2022	13,570	+29.4%
2021	10,487	-42.5%
2020	18,243	-87.3%
2019	143,427	-23.3%
2018	186,937	+12.0%
2017	166,894	+14.7%
2016	145,500	-13.3%

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 USC00195246, 18 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.