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Muir Woods National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Muir Woods, when the average temperature nearby is 68 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 52 degrees. July runs about 2.9 times the visits of February. The peak falls with the warmth, though February is not the coldest month. Annual visits fell 6.8 percent, from 812,073 in 2019 to 756,573 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 Kentfield, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 145 feet, station USC00044500 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	756,573	-4.5%
2024	792,494	-2.1%
2023	809,697	+1.4%
2022	798,625	+21.4%
2021	657,722	+102.9%
2020	324,232	-60.1%
2019	812,073	-15.2%
2018	957,932	-9.8%
2017	1,062,099	-5.4%
2016	1,123,121	+2.1%

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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 USC00044500, 145 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.