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Navajo National Monument visitation by month and year

September is the busiest month at Navajo, when the average temperature nearby is 64 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. September runs about 6.6 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 11.8 percent, from 49,983 in 2019 to 44,099 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 Betatakin, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 7,286 feet, station USC00020750 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	44,099	-24.5%
2024	58,442	+32.3%
2023	44,180	+7.4%
2022	41,118	+177.2%
2021	14,834	+272.2%
2020	3,985	-92.0%
2019	49,983	-18.3%
2018	61,195	-11.0%
2017	68,785	+4.7%
2016	65,705	-7.9%

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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 USC00020750, 7,286 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.