California Cities Location Reference

The California Cities list below can help you determine the area and more specific sub-area in which a particular city is located in the state. Just use your keyboard’s “Find” feature to quickly arrive at the city name that you’re looking for so your can see the related Area and Sub-Area entries for it.

If you’re trying to determine a city’s precise location — for example, perhaps you’re wondering “where is Ojai, California on a map?” — then you can use this link to go to Google Maps, type in the name of the city that you’re curious about in the Search Google Maps field (e.g., type “Ojai” without quotation marks), and then click on the “Ojai, CA, USA” that pre-populates. You will then see where Ojai is on the map!

If you’d like to get an even better idea of a city’s location, however, you’ll want to see where it is in relation to another city. To do this, click the Directions button and type another city’s name (let’s use one of my favorite California cities, Ventura, for this example) and then click on the “Ventura, CA, USA” that pre-populates. Now you’ll not only see that the two cities are about a 20-minute drive from one another, you’ll also learn the roads to take to get from one to the other. Here’s a graphic that demonstrates these instructions: