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North Cascades National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at North Cascades, when the average temperature nearby is 66 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 34 degrees. An average July draws 9,618 visits where an average December draws 13. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 22.8 percent from 38,208 in 2019 to 46,925 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 Diablo Dam, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 891 feet, station USC00452157 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	46,925	+184.7%
2024	16,485	-59.1%
2023	40,351	+33.8%
2022	30,154	+68.9%
2021	17,855	-42.2%
2020	30,885	-19.2%
2019	38,208	+27.0%
2018	30,085	-0.8%
2017	30,326	+5.9%
2016	28,646	+38.5%

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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 USC00452157, 891 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.