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Katmai National Park & Preserve visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Katmai, when the average temperature nearby is 54 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 22 degrees. An average July draws 12,537 visits where an average February draws 4. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 59.0 percent, from 84,167 in 2019 to 34,479 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 King Salmon 42 SE, 44 miles from the park's reference point at 661 feet, station USW00025522 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	34,479	-4.8%
2024	36,230	+7.3%
2023	33,763	-0.4%
2022	33,908	+36.9%
2021	24,764	-51.9%
2020	51,511	-38.8%
2019	84,167	+122.6%
2018	37,818	0.0%
2017	37,818	0.0%
2016	37,818	0.0%

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 USW00025522, 661 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.