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Greenbelt Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Greenbelt, when the average temperature nearby is 64 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 38 degrees. May runs about 5.7 times the visits of December. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 1.3 percent from 128,702 in 2019 to 130,314 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 Beltsville, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 145 feet, station USC00180700 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

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	130,314	+67.8%
2024	77,642	-15.4%
2023	91,785	+51.0%
2022	60,800	+154.5%
2021	23,893	-15.6%
2020	28,319	-78.0%
2019	128,702	+51.0%
2018	85,260	-39.9%
2017	141,856	+2.9%
2016	137,900	+2.0%

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 USC00180700, 145 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.