Visitation · National Battlefield

Petersburg National Battlefield visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Petersburg, when the average temperature nearby is 77 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 39 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 27,508 against 13,793. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 109.7 percent from 235,691 in 2019 to 494,358 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 Petersburg, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 19 feet, station USC00446656 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, 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	494,358	+158.0%
2024	191,623	+4.9%
2023	182,695	+1.0%
2022	180,907	-10.3%
2021	201,606	+31.9%
2020	152,878	-35.1%
2019	235,691	+15.4%
2018	204,322	-2.0%
2017	208,473	+8.6%
2016	191,898	-0.4%

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 USC00446656, 19 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.