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Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Glacier Bay, when the average temperature nearby is 54 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average August draws 114,531 visits where an average February draws 173. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 10.1 percent from 672,087 in 2019 to 740,044 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 Glacier Bay, 42 miles from the park's reference point at 45 feet, station USC00503294 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	740,044	+0.5%
2024	736,282	+4.6%
2023	703,659	+28.9%
2022	545,758	+508.0%
2021	89,768	+1461.7%
2020	5,748	-99.1%
2019	672,087	+12.4%
2018	597,915	+9.3%
2017	547,057	+5.2%
2016	520,171	-5.7%

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 USC00503294, 45 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.