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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park visitation by month and year

December is the busiest month at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. April is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 74 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 150,746 against 109,889. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 37.2 percent from 1,368,376 in 2019 to 1,877,854 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 Sea Mtn 12.15, 14 miles from the park's reference point at 80 feet, station USC00518600 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	1,877,854	+31.0%
2024	1,433,593	-11.5%
2023	1,620,294	+2.5%
2022	1,580,961	+25.2%
2021	1,262,747	+114.1%
2020	589,775	-56.9%
2019	1,368,376	+22.5%
2018	1,116,891	-44.6%
2017	2,016,702	+6.8%
2016	1,887,580	+3.0%

Visitation at other parks

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Compare Hawaiʻi Volcanoes with Haleakalā National Park

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 USC00518600, 80 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.