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Canyon de Chelly National Monument visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Canyon de Chelly, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. August runs about 3.2 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 26.1 percent, from 460,757 in 2019 to 340,586 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 Canyon De Chelly, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 5,610 feet, station USC00021248 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	340,586	-12.1%
2024	387,433	+16.2%
2023	333,349	-6.1%
2022	354,972	+92.7%
2021	184,191	+140.0%
2020	76,752	-83.3%
2019	460,757	+4.9%
2018	439,306	-46.8%
2017	825,660	+0.5%
2016	821,406	+0.9%

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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 USC00021248, 5,610 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.