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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, when the average temperature nearby is 48 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 38 degrees. March runs about 4.4 times the visits of January. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 22.5 percent, from 3,667,562 in 2019 to 2,843,263 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 Washington Reagan AP, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 10 feet, station USW00013743 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, 2012 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	2,843,263	-12.6%
2024	3,251,594	-2.7%
2023	3,341,654	+0.6%
2022	3,321,897	+63.4%
2021	2,032,470	+87.6%
2020	1,083,671	-70.5%
2019	3,667,562	+2.8%
2018	3,567,434	-2.3%
2017	3,651,093	+0.4%
2016	3,638,208	+3.1%

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 USW00013743, 10 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.