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Montezuma Castle National Monument visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Montezuma Castle, when the average temperature nearby is 53 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 81 degrees. March runs about 2.5 times the visits of August. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 14.9 percent, from 376,254 in 2019 to 320,013 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 Montezuma Castle NM, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 3,180 feet, station USC00025635 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	320,013	-15.8%
2024	379,967	+3.5%
2023	367,239	+0.9%
2022	364,014	-12.9%
2021	418,147	+72.8%
2020	242,028	-35.7%
2019	376,254	-3.6%
2018	390,151	-2.0%
2017	398,174	+1.5%
2016	392,168	-5.9%

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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 USC00025635, 3,180 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.