Visitation · National Seashore

Padre Island National Seashore visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Padre Island, when the average temperature nearby is 84 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 59 degrees. July runs about 2.9 times the visits of December. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits were about level between 2019 and 2025, 576,299 against 573,255.

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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 Sarita 7 E, 24 miles from the park's reference point at 38 feet, station USC00418081 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	573,255	+11.4%
2024	514,722	-6.9%
2023	552,687	+4.0%
2022	531,624	-13.7%
2021	615,826	-0.3%
2020	617,704	+7.2%
2019	576,299	-6.4%
2018	616,033	-5.3%
2017	650,197	+2.6%
2016	634,012	+8.8%

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 USC00418081, 38 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.