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Amistad National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Amistad, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 51 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 92,907 against 50,716. The warmest month is August, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 42.1 percent, from 1,267,900 in 2019 to 734,293 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 Amistad Dam, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 1,157 feet, station USC00410225 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	734,293	-11.8%
2024	832,294	-0.5%
2023	836,733	-8.3%
2022	912,283	-16.4%
2021	1,091,897	-23.3%
2020	1,424,139	+12.3%
2019	1,267,900	+14.0%
2018	1,111,770	-9.0%
2017	1,221,635	+4.9%
2016	1,164,530	-6.8%

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 USC00410225, 1,157 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.