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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. An average July draws 704 visits where an average January draws 76. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 17.6 percent, from 3,788 in 2019 to 3,123 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2022 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Natl Arboretum Dc, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 50 feet, station USC00186350 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, 1997 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	3,123	-6.4%
2024	3,338	-5.6%
2023	3,537	+77.3%
2022	1,995
2021	0	-100.0%
2020	578	-84.7%
2019	3,788	+3375.2%
2018	109	-60.6%
2017	277	-96.1%
2016	7,149	-13.3%

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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 USC00186350, 50 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.