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Jewel Cave National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Jewel Cave, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 23 degrees. An average July draws 33,079 visits where an average January draws 391. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 10.5 percent, from 123,489 in 2019 to 110,553 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 Edgemont 23 NNW, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 4,402 feet, station USC00392565 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	110,553	-23.9%
2024	145,332	+19.6%
2023	121,536	+1.8%
2022	119,343	+10.3%
2021	108,209	+201.6%
2020	35,878	-70.9%
2019	123,489	-13.3%
2018	142,356	-1.5%
2017	144,537	+5.3%
2016	137,275	+17.9%

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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 USC00392565, 4,402 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.