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Wright Brothers National Memorial visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Wright Brothers, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 43 degrees. An average July draws 67,134 visits where an average January draws 7,101. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 14.6 percent, from 400,135 in 2019 to 341,576 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 Manteo AP, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 13 feet, station USW00013766 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	341,576	-16.0%
2024	406,593	-4.0%
2023	423,488	-3.2%
2022	437,391	-9.3%
2021	482,191	+73.5%
2020	277,963	-30.5%
2019	400,135	+10.9%
2018	360,669	-12.9%
2017	414,244	-9.7%
2016	458,776	+4.9%

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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 USW00013766, 13 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.