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Mojave National Preserve visitation by month and year

November is the busiest month at Mojave, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 82 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 82,121 against 37,886. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 32.3 percent, from 841,516 in 2019 to 569,844 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 Mitchell Caverns, 13 miles from the park's reference point at 4,350 feet, station USC00045721 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, 1997 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	569,844	+34.1%
2024	424,864	-64.0%
2023	1,178,998	+52.4%
2022	773,463	-10.8%
2021	866,635	+42.4%
2020	608,633	-27.7%
2019	841,516	+6.9%
2018	787,404	+9.9%
2017	716,604	+22.4%
2016	585,635	-0.6%

Visitation at other parks

Golden Gate National Recreation Area Yosemite National Park Big Cypress National Preserve Little River Canyon National Preserve

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 USC00045721, 4,350 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.