Joe Dorish Weather: What are the Best Times of Year to Visit Yosemite National Park?

Yosemite National Park is one of the greatest natural scenic wonders in the United States and the world. What are the best times of the year to go and visit Yosemite National Park for tourists and visitors?

To help tourists and visitors decide that here is a list of the number of tourists and visitors to Yosemite National Park by month. Each month of the year is listed from the most visited month to the least visited month. In total, over 5 million people a year visit Yosemite National Park making it one of the most visited national parks in the world.

Yosemite National Park is a great place to visit at any time of the year but they do close some of the roads in the winter. Most notably, the Tioga Road is closed in winter which prevents visitors from entering Yosemite from the east. The road to Glacier Point, called the Glacier Point Road, is also closed in the winter depending upon snowfall levels.

That obviously limits the number of visitors to the park in the winter. During the rest of the year, it's obvious from the data below that visitors and tourists flock to Yosemite during the summer months. In fact, the park can get quite crowded at times during the summer.

If you want to avoid the crowds and get the best deals on trips to Yosemite National Park and lodging in and around the park the best time of year to go is the spring or fall. In the spring you can see the flowers coming out for the first time and in the fall the colors when the leaves are turning are amazing in Yosemite.

What are the Best Times of Year to Visit Yosemite National Park?

1. July - 780,720 visitors

2. June - 703,614

3. August - 692,450

4. September - 598,428

5. October - 483,232

6. May - 457,309

7. April - 305,092

8. March - 286,990

9. November - 218,998

10. February - 201,601

11. December - 160,646