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Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park visitation by month and year

December is the busiest month at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau, when the average temperature nearby is 67 degrees. May is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 68 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 32,327 against 23,447. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits fell 10.2 percent, from 414,410 in 2019 to 371,957 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 Opihihale #2 24.1, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 1,360 feet, station USC00517166 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	371,957	-18.1%
2024	454,268	+33.0%
2023	341,502	+9.7%
2022	311,441	+24.1%
2021	250,919	+91.8%
2020	130,845	-68.4%
2019	414,410	-10.5%
2018	462,974	-8.5%
2017	505,735	+20.1%
2016	421,027	-3.7%

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 USC00517166, 1,360 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.