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Cabrillo National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Cabrillo, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. October is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 67 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 81,981 against 46,236. The peak falls with the warmth, though October is not the coldest month. Annual visits rose 1.0 percent from 761,485 in 2019 to 769,336 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 North Island Nas, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 26 feet, station USW00093112 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	769,336	-9.1%
2024	845,912	+4.4%
2023	810,147	+5.5%
2022	768,076	+12.4%
2021	683,613	+30.5%
2020	523,878	-31.2%
2019	761,485	-9.6%
2018	842,104	-15.6%
2017	997,903	+4.0%
2016	959,145	-2.3%

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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 USW00093112, 26 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.