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Big Bend National Park visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Big Bend, when the average temperature nearby is 60 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 80 degrees. March runs about 5.6 times the visits of August. The warmest month is June, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 22.5 percent from 463,832 in 2019 to 568,104 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 Panther Junction, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 3,740 feet, station USC00416792 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	568,104	+1.2%
2024	561,458	+10.3%
2023	509,129	-1.0%
2022	514,107	-11.5%
2021	581,220	+47.6%
2020	393,907	-15.1%
2019	463,832	+5.4%
2018	440,091	-0.0%
2017	440,276	+13.4%
2016	388,290	+1.7%

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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 USC00416792, 3,740 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.