Coachella, California

Coachella population, 2020 to 2024

Coachella added 3,158 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,258. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Coachella is 1.2 times that size.

Coachella covers 29.92 square miles of land, for 1,510 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Coachella is less dense than the typical town.

What county Coachella is in

All of Coachella's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Coachella holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Coachella

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Coachella by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92236. 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 Coachella is

The Census internal point of Coachella is at 33.690400, -116.143100. Sacramento, the capital, is 450.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indio, CA (94,275 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Temecula, CA, 58.5 miles away.

Daylight in Coachella

At 33.69° N, Coachella gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Coachella

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Indio, 6.1 miles away, with 94,275 people.