Solana Beach, California

Solana Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Solana Beach lost 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +98. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 179th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Solana Beach is 35% of it.

Solana Beach covers 3.41 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 3,774 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Solana Beach is close to the typical town.

What county Solana Beach is in

All of Solana Beach's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Solana Beach holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Solana Beach

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Solana Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92014, 92075. 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 Solana Beach is

The Census internal point of Solana Beach is at 32.991300, -117.258100. Sacramento, the capital, is 453.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Encinitas, CA (61,137 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Carlsbad, CA, 9.6 miles away.

Daylight in Solana Beach

At 32.99° N, Solana Beach gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Solana Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Del Mar, 1.9 miles away, with 3,902 people.