San Clemente, California

San Clemente population, 2020 to 2024

San Clemente lost 1,590 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -58. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 302nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so San Clemente is 1.7 times that size.

San Clemente covers 18.36 square miles of land and 0.75 of water, for 3,411 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so San Clemente is close to the typical town.

What county San Clemente is in

All of San Clemente's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. San Clemente holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Clemente

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap San Clemente by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92672, 92673. 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 San Clemente is

The Census internal point of San Clemente is at 33.449100, -117.613100. Sacramento, the capital, is 415.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laguna Niguel, CA (64,185 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 18.3 miles away.

Daylight in San Clemente

At 33.45° N, San Clemente gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near San Clemente

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Juan Capistrano, 4.3 miles away, with 35,469 people.