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Pinnacles National Park visitation by month and year

April is the busiest month at Pinnacles, when the average temperature nearby is 56 degrees. September is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 70 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 38,961 against 19,821. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 93.7 percent from 177,224 in 2019 to 343,208 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 Pinnacles NM, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 1,307 feet, station USC00046926 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	343,208	-3.1%
2024	354,076	+3.8%
2023	341,220	+24.1%
2022	275,023	-21.2%
2021	348,857	+110.5%
2020	165,740	-6.5%
2019	177,224	-20.2%
2018	222,152	-4.8%
2017	233,334	+8.2%
2016	215,555	+4.4%

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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 USC00046926, 1,307 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.