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Capitol Reef National Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Capitol Reef, when the average temperature nearby is 61 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. An average May draws 213,386 visits where an average January draws 17,858. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 13.2 percent from 1,226,519 in 2019 to 1,388,476 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 Capitol Reef NP, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 5,500 feet, station USC00421171 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	1,388,476	-2.4%
2024	1,422,490	+12.1%
2023	1,268,861	+3.4%
2022	1,227,608	-12.6%
2021	1,405,353	+43.3%
2020	981,038	-20.0%
2019	1,226,519	-0.1%
2018	1,227,627	+6.7%
2017	1,150,165	+8.0%
2016	1,064,904	+13.2%

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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 USC00421171, 5,500 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.