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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Agate Fossil Beds, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. An average July draws 3,626 visits where an average January draws 89. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 1.0 percent from 16,657 in 2019 to 16,827 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 Harrison 20 SSE, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 4,406 feet, station USW00094077 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, 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	16,827	-13.2%
2024	19,395	+24.6%
2023	15,562	-4.9%
2022	16,357	-10.4%
2021	18,264	+109.4%
2020	8,722	-47.6%
2019	16,657	+2.6%
2018	16,238	-49.3%
2017	32,038	+106.0%
2016	15,555	+17.3%

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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 USW00094077, 4,406 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.