Each year, monarch butterflies make one of the longest migrations in the insect world — traveling thousands of miles between their overwintering grounds in central Mexico and their summer breeding range across North America. This chart overlays weekly temperature data with reported monarch sightings across four representative years, letting you watch the migration unfold week by week and see how shifting temperatures track with the butterflies' movement north in spring and south in fall.
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