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De Soto National Memorial visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at De Soto, when the average temperature nearby is 68 degrees. October is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 77 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 22,875 against 9,725. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits fell 33.8 percent, from 187,880 in 2019 to 124,294 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 Sarasota Bradenton AP, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 28 feet, station USW00012871 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	124,294	-19.8%
2024	155,016	-33.2%
2023	231,892	+33.9%
2022	173,150	-22.1%
2021	222,380	+13.4%
2020	196,114	+4.4%
2019	187,880	-11.0%
2018	210,993	-9.6%
2017	233,354	+0.4%
2016	232,463	-20.8%

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 USW00012871, 28 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.