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Glacier National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Glacier, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average July draws 761,346 visits where an average February draws 16,922. The peak falls with the warmth, though February is not the coldest month. Annual visits rose 2.8 percent from 3,049,839 in 2019 to 3,136,557 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 W Glacier, 15 miles from the park's reference point at 3,148 feet, station USC00248809 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	3,136,557	-2.3%
2024	3,208,755	+9.4%
2023	2,933,616	+0.9%
2022	2,908,458	-5.6%
2021	3,081,656	+81.4%
2020	1,698,864	-44.3%
2019	3,049,839	+2.9%
2018	2,965,309	-10.3%
2017	3,305,512	+12.2%
2016	2,946,681	+24.5%

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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 USC00248809, 3,148 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.