Visitation · National Historical Park

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park visitation by month and year

April is the busiest month at San Antonio Missions, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 58 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 130,451 against 77,571. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 21.2 percent from 1,281,121 in 2019 to 1,552,510 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 Antonio Stinson AP, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 571 feet, station USW00012970 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, 1983 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	1,552,510	+21.4%
2024	1,278,777	+8.3%
2023	1,180,929	-4.7%
2022	1,238,920	-7.2%
2021	1,335,071	+17.0%
2020	1,141,353	-10.9%
2019	1,281,121	+6.0%
2018	1,208,104	-12.5%
2017	1,381,383	+1.7%
2016	1,358,911	+2.8%

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 USW00012970, 571 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.