Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Palm Springs added 807 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +182. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 95th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Palm Springs is 1.2 times that size.

Palm Springs covers 94.54 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 481 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Palm Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palm Springs is in

All of Palm Springs's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palm Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92258, 92262, 92264, 92282. 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 Palm Springs is

The Census internal point of Palm Springs is at 33.803400, -116.538300. Sacramento, the capital, is 430.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cathedral City, CA (52,517 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Menifee, CA, 38.0 miles away.

Daylight in Palm Springs

At 33.80° N, Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Cathedral City, 4.9 miles away, with 52,517 people.