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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Vanderbilt Mansion, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. July runs about 4.3 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 9.7 percent, from 326,822 in 2019 to 295,040 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 Poughkeepsie, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 251 feet, station USC00306820 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	295,040	-27.3%
2024	406,077	+20.0%
2023	338,436	+3.8%
2022	326,012	-2.1%
2021	333,029	+53.3%
2020	217,231	-33.5%
2019	326,822	-4.1%
2018	340,870	-5.4%
2017	360,436	-7.1%
2016	387,856	-10.2%

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 USC00306820, 251 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.