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Pennsylvania Avenue visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Pennsylvania Avenue, when the average temperature nearby is 79 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 38 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 11,568 against 6,710. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 7.5 percent, from 125,035 in 2019 to 115,618 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 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, 1986 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	115,618	-18.5%
2024	141,840	+2.7%
2023	138,108	+142.6%
2022	56,928
2021	0	-100.0%
2020	15,898	-87.3%
2019	125,035	+4.5%
2018	119,616	+10.0%
2017	108,716
2016	0

Visitation at other parks

Lincoln Memorial George Washington Memorial Parkway Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial

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.