Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea population, 2020 to 2024

Carmel-by-the-Sea lost 86 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Carmel-by-the-Sea covers 1.06 square miles of land, for 2,947 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Carmel-by-the-Sea is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carmel-by-the-Sea is in

All of Carmel-by-the-Sea's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Carmel-by-the-Sea holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carmel-by-the-Sea

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Carmel-by-the-Sea by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93921, 93923. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Carmel-by-the-Sea is

The Census internal point of Carmel-by-the-Sea is at 36.552900, -121.921900. Sacramento, the capital, is 141.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monterey, CA (29,015 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 18.6 miles away.

Daylight in Carmel-by-the-Sea

At 36.55° N, Carmel-by-the-Sea gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carmel-by-the-Sea

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Monterey, 4.0 miles away, with 29,015 people.