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Sitka National Historical Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Sitka, when the average temperature nearby is 52 degrees. November is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 37 degrees. An average June draws 41,101 visits where an average November draws 1,491. The warmest month is August, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 43.0 percent from 232,876 in 2019 to 332,964 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 Sitka 1 NE, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 78 feet, station USW00025379 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	332,964	+7.6%
2024	309,327	+69.9%
2023	182,115	+35.5%
2022	134,451	+38.9%
2021	96,793	-16.2%
2020	115,494	-50.4%
2019	232,876	+18.2%
2018	197,017	+1.1%
2017	194,880	-10.3%
2016	217,141	+17.3%

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 USW00025379, 78 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.