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Devils Postpile National Monument visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Devils Postpile, when the average temperature nearby is 62 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 32.6 percent, from 147,864 in 2019 to 99,652 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 Mammoth Lakes RS, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 7,804 feet, station USC00045280 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	99,652	+5.8%
2024	94,215	+9.4%
2023	86,132	-40.4%
2022	144,453	-0.6%
2021	145,387	+33.9%
2020	108,590	-26.6%
2019	147,864	+5.8%
2018	139,724	+27.5%
2017	109,571	-19.1%
2016	135,404	-3.5%

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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 USC00045280, 7,804 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.