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El Morro National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at El Morro, when the average temperature nearby is 53 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. May runs about 3.1 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 29.1 percent, from 68,867 in 2019 to 48,797 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 El Morro Natl Mon, under a mile from the park's reference point at 7,223 feet, station USC00292785 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	48,797	-15.6%
2024	57,827	+5.5%
2023	54,836	-9.4%
2022	60,501	-9.3%
2021	66,734	+83.7%
2020	36,328	-47.2%
2019	68,867	+5.2%
2018	65,453	+10.9%
2017	59,013	-0.7%
2016	59,422	+20.3%

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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 USC00292785, 7,223 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.