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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Sunset Crater Volcano, when the average temperature nearby is 37 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. March runs about 2.5 times the visits of January. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits were about level between 2019 and 2025, 108,379 against 108,348.

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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 Sunset Crater NM, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 6,980 feet, station USC00028329 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	108,348	+47.9%
2024	73,260	-10.1%
2023	81,519	+48.8%
2022	54,787	-56.4%
2021	125,653	+50.2%
2020	83,669	-22.8%
2019	108,379	+3.6%
2018	104,583	-12.4%
2017	119,454	+98.3%
2016	60,233	-66.9%

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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 USC00028329, 6,980 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.