Chula Vista, California

Chula Vista population, 2020 to 2024

Chula Vista added 2,738 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +2,365. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 125th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Chula Vista is 7.5 times that size.

Chula Vista covers 49.64 square miles of land and 2.46 of water, for 5,611 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Chula Vista is denser than the typical town.

What county Chula Vista is in

All of Chula Vista's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Chula Vista holds 8.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chula Vista

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Chula Vista by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91902, 91910, 91911, 91913, 91914, 91915. 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 Chula Vista is

The Census internal point of Chula Vista is at 32.627700, -117.015200. Sacramento, the capital, is 481.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Diego, CA (1,404,452 people), 14.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is El Cajon, CA, 12.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 135 m (443 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Chula Vista

At 32.63° N, Chula Vista gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Chula Vista daylight page.

Places near Chula Vista

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is National City, 5.5 miles away, with 58,460 people.