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Chaco Culture National Historical Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Chaco Culture, when the average temperature nearby is 57 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. May runs about 7.7 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 37.0 percent, from 47,342 in 2019 to 29,816 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 Chaco Canyon Natl Mon, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 6,174 feet, station USC00291647 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	29,816	-21.2%
2024	37,840	-5.9%
2023	40,198	-3.4%
2022	41,594	+30.3%
2021	31,922	+287.8%
2020	8,231	-82.6%
2019	47,342	-18.1%
2018	57,781	+4.4%
2017	55,334	+2.3%
2016	54,084	+39.0%

Visitation at other parks

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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 USC00291647, 6,174 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.