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Updated June 2026

Best Time to Visit War In The Pacific

National Historical ParkGuam

Our recommendation

Visit War In The Pacific in October

October offers best overall balance of crowds, weather and daylight. For comparison, May is the most crowded month (~1.2× the average month) and October is the quietest.

Annual visits

398K

2025

Busiest month

May

1.2× avg

Quietest month

Oct

0.9× avg

10-yr trend

steady

-3.8%

How crowded is War In The Pacific by month?

Relative crowd level by month (1.0 = the park's average month), from NPS visitation records 19852025.

1.0×Jan
1.0×Feb
1.1×Mar
1.0×Apr
1.2×May
1.0×Jun
1.0×Jul
1.0×Aug
0.9×Sep
0.9×Oct
1.0×Nov
0.9×Dec

Month-by-month crowd, weather & daylight

MonthCrowd levelBest-time scoreDaylight
JanuaryAverage65 Good11.3 h
FebruaryAverage66 Good11.6 h
MarchAverage51 Fair11.9 h
AprilAverage64 Good12.3 h
MayBusy16 Poor12.6 h
JuneAverage59 Fair12.8 h
JulyAverage56 Fair12.7 h
AugustAverage69 Good12.4 h
SeptemberAverage82 Excellent12.1 h
October★ bestAverage85 Excellent11.7 h
NovemberAverage68 Good11.4 h
DecemberAverage74 Good11.2 h

About visiting War In The Pacific

War In The Pacific National Historical Park is a National Historical Park in GU and a relatively quiet park, drawing about 398,000 recreation visits in 2025. Visitation has held fairly steady over the past decade. Crowds concentrate sharply by season: May is the busiest month at about 1.2× the park's average month, while October is the calmest at roughly 0.9× — a 1-to-1 swing between high and low season. Roughly 25% of the year's visitors arrive in the three summer months of June, July and August alone, so timing a trip outside that window is the single biggest lever on how crowded the park feels. If avoiding people matters most, October offers the thinnest crowds of the year, though you'll trade some warmth and daylight for the solitude. Daylight ranges from about 11.2 hours in midwinter to 12.8 hours near the summer solstice, which shapes how much ground you can cover in a day. These crowd figures are drawn from 1985–2025 of National Park Service visitor-use records, and are updated as new monthly data is released.

Park overview

War in the Pacific National Historical Park was established to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of those participating in the campaigns of the Pacific Theater of World War II and to conserve and interpret outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects of the island of Guam.

Weather & conditions

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=13.443563908000044&lon=144.77762780500007

Park overview text courtesy of the National Park Serviceofficial park site.

Frequently Asked Questions

October offers best overall balance of crowds, weather and daylight at War In The Pacific National Historical Park. The park is busiest in May (about 1.2× the average month) and quietest in October.

May is the busiest month at War In The Pacific National Historical Park, running roughly 1.2 times the park's average monthly visitation.

October is the quietest month at War In The Pacific National Historical Park, at about 0.9× the average month — a good choice if you want to avoid crowds.

War In The Pacific National Historical Park recorded about 397,733 recreation visits in 2025. Visitation has been steady over the past decade (-3.8%).

Sources: National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics (19852025). Crowd index = a month's visits ÷ the park's average month.