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Denali National Park & Preserve visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Denali, when the average temperature nearby is 52 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 4 degrees. An average August draws 117,483 visits where an average January draws 1,323. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 9.6 percent, from 601,152 in 2019 to 543,300 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 Denali 27 N, 12 miles from the park's reference point at 2,225 feet, station USW00096408 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	543,300	+16.5%
2024	466,227	-6.5%
2023	498,722	+16.6%
2022	427,562	+86.3%
2021	229,521	+318.5%
2020	54,850	-90.9%
2019	601,152	+1.1%
2018	594,660	-7.5%
2017	642,809	+9.4%
2016	587,412	+4.8%

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 USW00096408, 2,225 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.