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Aztec Ruins National Monument visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Aztec Ruins, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. June runs about 4.3 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 39.4 percent, from 63,777 in 2019 to 38,636 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 Aztec Ruins NM, under a mile from the park's reference point at 5,644 feet, station USC00290692 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	38,636	-3.5%
2024	40,019	-15.8%
2023	47,554	-5.6%
2022	50,396	-10.7%
2021	56,427	+86.7%
2020	30,223	-52.6%
2019	63,777	+16.1%
2018	54,933	+4.1%
2017	52,756	-8.6%
2016	57,692	+8.5%

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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 USC00290692, 5,644 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.