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Channel Islands National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Channel Islands, when the average temperature nearby is 64 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 53 degrees. July runs about 2.9 times the visits of January. The temperature changes little from month to month here. Annual visits fell 44.5 percent, from 409,630 in 2019 to 227,186 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 Santa Barbara 11 W, 30 miles from the park's reference point at 18 feet, station USW00053152 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	227,186	-13.5%
2024	262,581	-20.1%
2023	328,746	+1.7%
2022	323,245	+1.3%
2021	319,252	+90.8%
2020	167,290	-59.2%
2019	409,630	+11.8%
2018	366,250	-4.5%
2017	383,687	+5.2%
2016	364,807	+12.3%

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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 USW00053152, 18 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.