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Fort Washington Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fort Washington, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. July runs about 3.9 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 18.5 percent from 423,868 in 2019 to 502,171 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 Oxon Hill, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 190 feet, station USC00186800 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	502,171	+2.3%
2024	491,013	+9.5%
2023	448,220	+10.2%
2022	406,917	-36.0%
2021	636,276	+297.0%
2020	160,289	-62.2%
2019	423,868	+34.1%
2018	316,052	-0.4%
2017	317,470	-43.3%
2016	560,358	+66.1%

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 USC00186800, 190 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.