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Colorado National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Colorado, when the average temperature nearby is 61 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 52,605 against 26,688. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 21.8 percent from 397,032 in 2019 to 483,436 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 Colorado NM, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 5,781 feet, station USC00051772 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	483,436	-0.9%
2024	488,038	+0.4%
2023	486,179	+1.2%
2022	480,442	-3.9%
2021	499,841	+14.7%
2020	435,625	+9.7%
2019	397,032	+5.7%
2018	375,467	+0.1%
2017	375,035	-4.1%
2016	391,075	-33.5%

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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 USC00051772, 5,781 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.