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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Organ Pipe Cactus, when the average temperature nearby is 63 degrees. July is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 90 degrees. March runs about 4.5 times the visits of July. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 33.7 percent, from 263,186 in 2019 to 174,623 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 Organ Pipe Cactus NM, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 1,678 feet, station USC00026132 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	174,623	-4.4%
2024	182,612	-2.1%
2023	186,601	+40.0%
2022	133,317	-30.1%
2021	190,848	-0.3%
2020	191,512	-27.2%
2019	263,186	+1.1%
2018	260,375	-0.1%
2017	260,534	+11.3%
2016	234,186	+5.1%

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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 USC00026132, 1,678 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.