Sonoma, California

Sonoma population, 2020 to 2024

Sonoma lost 120 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +3. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 223rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Sonoma is 29% of it.

Sonoma covers 2.74 square miles of land, for 3,871 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Sonoma is close to the typical town.

What county Sonoma is in

All of Sonoma's residents live in Sonoma County, which had 485,375 residents in 2024. Sonoma holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sonoma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sonoma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95476. 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 Sonoma is

The Census internal point of Sonoma is at 38.290300, -122.459800. Sacramento, the capital, is 55.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Napa, CA (76,921 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vallejo, CA, 16.6 miles away.

Daylight in Sonoma

At 38.29° N, Sonoma gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sonoma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Napa, 8.6 miles away, with 76,921 people.