Visitation · National Seashore

Point Reyes National Seashore visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Point Reyes, when the average temperature nearby is 68 degrees. March is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 55 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 250,604 against 165,816. The peak falls with the warmth, though March is not the coldest month. Annual visits rose 7.3 percent from 2,265,301 in 2019 to 2,429,601 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 San Rafael Civic Ctr, 19 miles from the park's reference point at 120 feet, station USC00047880 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	2,429,601	+2.4%
2024	2,371,800	+4.6%
2023	2,268,058	-2.9%
2022	2,336,202	-14.7%
2021	2,738,098	+21.6%
2020	2,252,424	-0.6%
2019	2,265,301	-5.5%
2018	2,397,722	-2.4%
2017	2,456,669	+0.7%
2016	2,438,442	-2.5%

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 USC00047880, 120 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.