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Congaree National Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Congaree, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 80 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 29,060 against 13,657. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 80.5 percent from 159,445 in 2019 to 287,833 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 Wedgefield, 15 miles from the park's reference point at 250 feet, station USC00389039 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

Annual visits, 1985 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	287,833	+18.9%
2024	242,049	-3.2%
2023	250,114	+22.3%
2022	204,522	-5.0%
2021	215,181	+80.4%
2020	119,306	-25.2%
2019	159,445	+9.3%
2018	145,929	-8.6%
2017	159,595	+11.0%
2016	143,843	+64.4%

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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 USC00389039, 250 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.