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Mammoth Cave National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Mammoth Cave, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 39 degrees. July runs about 6.5 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 19.8 percent from 551,590 in 2019 to 660,734 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 Mammoth Cave, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 760 feet, station USC00155097 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	660,734	-11.6%
2024	747,042	+14.1%
2023	654,450	-1.3%
2022	663,147	+28.6%
2021	515,774	+77.6%
2020	290,392	-47.4%
2019	551,590	+3.4%
2018	533,206	-9.3%
2017	587,853	+0.2%
2016	586,514	+3.5%

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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 USC00155097, 760 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.