Cathedral City, California

Cathedral City population, 2020 to 2024

Cathedral City added 888 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +79. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 98th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Cathedral City is 1.4 times that size.

Cathedral City covers 22.48 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 2,336 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Cathedral City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cathedral City is in

All of Cathedral City's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Cathedral City holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cathedral City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cathedral City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92234, 92276. 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 Cathedral City is

The Census internal point of Cathedral City is at 33.835500, -116.463100. Sacramento, the capital, is 431.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palm Desert, CA (53,147 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Menifee, CA, 42.6 miles away.

Daylight in Cathedral City

At 33.84° N, Cathedral City gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cathedral City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Palm Springs, 4.9 miles away, with 45,453 people.