Pacific Grove, California

Pacific Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Pacific Grove lost 238 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +0. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 255th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Pacific Grove is 40% of it.

Pacific Grove covers 2.87 square miles of land and 1.13 of water, for 5,175 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Pacific Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Pacific Grove is in

All of Pacific Grove's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Pacific Grove holds 3.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pacific Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pacific Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93950. 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 Pacific Grove is

The Census internal point of Pacific Grove is at 36.622600, -121.926400. Sacramento, the capital, is 137.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monterey, CA (29,015 people), 2.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 16.9 miles away.

Daylight in Pacific Grove

At 36.62° N, Pacific Grove gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pacific Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Monterey, 2.8 miles away, with 29,015 people.