Visitation · National Historical Park

Salem Maritime National Historical Park visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at Salem Maritime, when the average temperature nearby is 52 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average October draws 122,268 visits where an average January draws 4,676. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 68.0 percent from 339,238 in 2019 to 569,839 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 Marblehead, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 84 feet, station USC00194502 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

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	569,839	+16.6%
2024	488,831	-10.3%
2023	544,747	+38.7%
2022	392,836	+117.0%
2021	181,008	+44.2%
2020	125,554	-63.0%
2019	339,238	+12.9%
2018	300,475	-19.6%
2017	373,630	+0.4%
2016	371,989	+40.5%

Visitation at other parks

Appalachian National Scenic Trail Cape Cod National Seashore Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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 USC00194502, 84 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.