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Valles Caldera National Preserve visitation by month and year

September is the busiest month at Valles Caldera, when the average temperature nearby is 51 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 25 degrees. September runs about 4.2 times the visits of February. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. The park recorded 84,952 recreation visits in 2025. A full 2019 count is not available, so no change figure is given.

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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 Los Alamos 13 W, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 8,716 feet, station USW00003062 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

Annual visits, 2020 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	84,952	+3.5%
2024	82,111	+7.9%
2023	76,090	+19.4%
2022	63,738	-16.8%
2021	76,578	+151.6%
2020	30,434
2019	month missing
2018	month missing
2017	month missing
2016	month missing

Visitation at other parks

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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 USW00003062, 8,716 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.