Fontana, California

Fontana population, 2020 to 2024

Fontana added 9,269 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +2,355. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Fontana is 5.9 times that size.

Fontana covers 43.29 square miles of land, for 5,046 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Fontana is denser than the typical town.

What county Fontana is in

All of Fontana's residents live in San Bernardino County, which had 2,214,281 residents in 2024. Fontana holds 9.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fontana

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fontana by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92335, 92336, 92337. 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 Fontana is

The Census internal point of Fontana is at 34.109700, -117.462900. Sacramento, the capital, is 381.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Bernardino, CA (224,775 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rialto, CA, 4.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 399 m (1,309 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Fontana

At 34.11° N, Fontana gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 33 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 Fontana daylight page.

Places near Fontana

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Rialto, 4.2 miles away, with 104,918 people.