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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Little Bighorn Battlefield, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. An average June draws 37,465 visits where an average January draws 433. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 82.4 percent, from 241,304 in 2019 to 42,405 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 Hardin, 15 miles from the park's reference point at 2,880 feet, station USC00243915 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	42,405	-62.1%
2024	111,825	-50.8%
2023	227,295	+34.9%
2022	168,433	-20.3%
2021	211,296	+116.8%
2020	97,461	-59.6%
2019	241,304	-11.5%
2018	272,591	-7.9%
2017	296,128	-10.9%
2016	332,328	+4.6%

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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 USC00243915, 2,880 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.