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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Martin Luther King, Jr., when the average temperature nearby is 77 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 48 degrees. June runs about 3.9 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 15.0 percent, from 761,650 in 2019 to 647,349 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 Atlanta Fulton Co AP, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 840 feet, station USW00003888 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, 1983 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	647,349	-44.2%
2024	1,159,438	+141.0%
2023	481,101	+98.2%
2022	242,789	+766.1%
2021	28,034	-85.9%
2020	198,158	-74.0%
2019	761,650	+18.7%
2018	641,801	+9.8%
2017	584,435	+25.0%
2016	467,715	-30.6%

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 USW00003888, 840 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.