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Bandelier National Monument visitation by month and year

April is the busiest month at Bandelier, when the average temperature nearby is 48 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. April runs about 3.9 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 23.4 percent from 200,741 in 2019 to 247,642 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 Los Alamos, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 7,424 feet, station USC00295084 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	247,642	+15.9%
2024	213,595	+7.1%
2023	199,501	-5.4%
2022	210,941	-22.1%
2021	270,716	+185.1%
2020	94,948	-52.7%
2019	200,741	+1.2%
2018	198,441	-5.1%
2017	209,141	+5.4%
2016	198,478	+14.0%

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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 USC00295084, 7,424 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.