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Crater Lake National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Crater Lake, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average July draws 164,423 visits where an average January draws 5,756. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 10.3 percent, from 704,512 in 2019 to 632,242 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 Crater Lake Nps HQ, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 6,485 feet, station USC00351946 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	632,242	+25.2%
2024	504,942	-9.8%
2023	559,976	+6.2%
2022	527,259	-18.6%
2021	647,751	-3.4%
2020	670,500	-4.8%
2019	704,512	-2.2%
2018	720,659	+1.3%
2017	711,749	-5.9%
2016	756,344	+23.0%

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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 USC00351946, 6,485 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.