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Hovenweep National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Hovenweep, when the average temperature nearby is 61 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. An average May draws 4,823 visits where an average January draws 364. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 24.8 percent, from 35,399 in 2019 to 26,616 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 Hovenweep NM, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 5,240 feet, station USC00424100 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	26,616	-15.4%
2024	31,471	-10.7%
2023	35,231	+23.9%
2022	28,446	+6.5%
2021	26,710	+34.5%
2020	19,856	-43.9%
2019	35,399	-12.8%
2018	40,574	+1.5%
2017	39,970	-6.7%
2016	42,862	+22.1%

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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 USC00424100, 5,240 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.