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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park visitation by month and year

February is the busiest month at Palo Alto Battlefield, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 86 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 17,945 against 10,615. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 12.6 percent from 149,733 in 2019 to 168,550 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Wfo Brownsville, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 15 feet, station USC00419649 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Annual visits, 2004 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	168,550	-5.8%
2024	178,946	+11.5%
2023	160,450	-18.2%
2022	196,252	+52.3%
2021	128,852	+31.7%
2020	97,860	-34.6%
2019	149,733	+81.5%
2018	82,488	-2.2%
2017	84,361	+44.1%
2016	58,556	+22.3%

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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00419649, 15 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.