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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Salinas Pueblo Missions, when the average temperature nearby is 62 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 3,919 against 2,394. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 1.5 percent from 31,672 in 2019 to 32,144 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 Gran Quivira Natl Mon, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 6,600 feet, station USC00293649 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	32,144	-15.6%
2024	38,106	-3.7%
2023	39,556	+6.4%
2022	37,190	-2.3%
2021	38,080	+41.1%
2020	26,982	-14.8%
2019	31,672	-8.5%
2018	34,629	-1.5%
2017	35,148	+8.4%
2016	32,414	+9.2%

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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 USC00293649, 6,600 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.