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Kenai Fjords National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Kenai Fjords, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. November is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 23 degrees. An average July draws 125,025 visits where an average November draws 4. The peak falls with the warmth, though November is not the coldest month. Annual visits rose 19.3 percent from 356,601 in 2019 to 425,369 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Seward 8 NW, 30 miles from the park's reference point at 424 feet, station USC00508375 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Annual visits, 1982 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	425,369	+1.4%
2024	419,468	+8.2%
2023	387,525	-0.6%
2022	389,943	-5.3%
2021	411,782	+255.3%
2020	115,882	-67.5%
2019	356,601	+10.9%
2018	321,596	+5.9%
2017	303,598	-12.4%
2016	346,534	+16.8%

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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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00508375, 424 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.