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Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Brown v. Board of Education, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. July runs about 4.8 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 16.6 percent, from 21,413 in 2019 to 17,860 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 Topeka - NWS, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 880 feet, station USC00148171 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, 2005 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	17,860	-18.5%
2024	21,919	+16.4%
2023	18,826	+21.0%
2022	15,564	+70.8%
2021	9,113	+124.2%
2020	4,064	-81.0%
2019	21,413	-11.1%
2018	24,083	-4.4%
2017	25,204	-9.9%
2016	27,968	+10.4%

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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 USC00148171, 880 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.