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Mount Rainier National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Mount Rainier, when the average temperature nearby is 53 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average July draws 420,918 visits where an average February draws 16,368. The peak falls with the warmth, though February is not the coldest month. Annual visits rose 8.9 percent from 1,501,621 in 2019 to 1,635,342 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 Rainier Paradise RS, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 5,427 feet, station USC00456898 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	1,635,342	+0.9%
2024	1,620,006	-3.2%
2023	1,674,294	+3.2%
2022	1,622,395	-2.9%
2021	1,670,063	+43.9%
2020	1,160,754	-22.7%
2019	1,501,621	-1.1%
2018	1,518,491	+7.2%
2017	1,415,867	+4.3%
2016	1,356,913	+9.7%

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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 USC00456898, 5,427 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.