Seaside, California

Seaside population, 2020 to 2024

Seaside lost 811 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -29. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 305th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Seaside is 85% of it.

Seaside covers 8.92 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 3,534 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Seaside is close to the typical town.

What county Seaside is in

All of Seaside's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Seaside holds 7.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Seaside

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Seaside by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93955. 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 Seaside is

The Census internal point of Seaside is at 36.625100, -121.817800. Sacramento, the capital, is 136.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salinas, CA (160,783 people), 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Seaside

At 36.63° N, Seaside 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 Seaside

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Del Rey Oaks, 2.5 miles away, with 1,553 people.