Whitefish, Montana

Whitefish population, 2020 to 2024

Whitefish added 1,379 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.5%. In the latest year it moved by +90. Among 19 Montana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +5.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Montana has 9,256 people, so Whitefish is 1.0 times that size.

Whitefish covers 7.33 square miles of land and 5.29 of water, for 1,263 people per square mile of land. The median Montana place of 5,000+ has 2,232, so Whitefish is less dense than the typical town.

What county Whitefish is in

All of Whitefish's residents live in Flathead County, which had 114,527 residents in 2024. Whitefish holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Whitefish

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whitefish by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 59937. 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 Whitefish is

The Census internal point of Whitefish is at 48.438000, -114.348000. Helena, the capital, is 167.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kalispell, MT (31,296 people), 15.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane Valley, WA, 143.6 miles away.

Daylight in Whitefish

At 48.44° N, Whitefish gets about 16 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Whitefish

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Montana, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbia Falls, 8.5 miles away, with 5,713 people.