San Juan Bautista California Map
Explore San Juan Bautista, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of San Juan Bautista, California
How to Use This San Juan Bautista, California Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Juan Bautista, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to San Juan Bautista.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | San Juan Bautista |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Benito County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 36.845511 |
| Longitude | -121.537997 |
| Population | 2,089 |
| Density | 1027.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 95045 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Hollister |
| School District | Aromas-San Juan Unified School District |
About San Juan Bautista, California
San Juan Bautista is a locality in San Benito County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,089. The population density is 1027.5 people per km². San Juan Bautista is located at 36.8455°N, 121.5380°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. San Juan Bautista is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 95045.San Juan Bautista endures as a quiet convergence of earth and history, anchored by the slow, tectonic shifting of the land itself. It lies 7.6 miles west of Hollister, CA (from Hollister, CA: bearing 266°T), and is situated 8.7 miles east-northeast of Prunedale. The landscape surrounding San Juan Bautista unfolds in wide, sun-bleached plains where the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into a bruised, metallic copper. A mile away, the narrow, shadowed descent of San Juan Canyon cuts through the terrain, while the San Benito River traces a sluggish, meandering path two miles to the south. Visitors often pause at Abbe Park, a small, quiet space that offers a vantage point over the stillness of this inland corridor, where the air remains thin and dry, untouched by the damp, heavy influence of the distant Coast Ranges that loom as faint, violet smudges against the western horizon.
San Juan Bautista holds a gravity born of its long-standing mission architecture, where the thick, whitewashed adobe walls have watched the regional economy pivot from pastoral grazing to the rhythmic cycles of modern agriculture. The proximity of Anzar Lake, four miles away, provides a rare, cool stillness in a region otherwise defined by its tinder-dry summer heat and the persistent, invisible tension of the fault lines beneath the streets. Life in San Juan Bautista retains a deliberate, unhurried cadence, as if the residents understand that the ground beneath them is never truly settled. Here, the local character is defined by the resilience of those who have cultivated these fields for generations, finding a persistent, quiet beauty in the way the sun ignites the dust motes in the air during the long, golden afternoons.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Credo Studio (Arts Centre) — 0.0 mi, 091° E
- Abbe Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 207° SW
- Old Mission Jail (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 058° NE
- Lang Street Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 185° S
- Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 5.8 mi, 137° SE
- Fremont Peak State Park (State Park) — 5.9 mi, 164° S
- Battle of Natividad State Historic Landmark (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 216° SW
- Overlook (Viewpoint) — 7.4 mi, 128° SE
- Granada Theater (Theatre) — 7.5 mi, 087° E
- Hollister Hills SVRA Upper Ranch (Attraction) — 8.7 mi, 127° SE
- Gavilan College Theater (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 349° N
- Upper Ranch Entrance (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 128° SE
- Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 10.3 mi, 258° W
- Elkhorn Slough Reserve Visitor Center (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 260° W
- Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 11.1 mi, 266° W
- Century 14 Northridge Mall (Cinema) — 11.3 mi, 217° SW
- The District Theater (Cinema) — 11.3 mi, 351° N
- If it has no other explanation, it must be art (Public Artwork) — 11.4 mi, 262° W
- Dabble Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 11.6 mi, 351° N
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 11.6 mi, 205° SW
- Timber Twister (Attraction) — 12.0 mi, 336° NW
- Water Oasis (Attraction) — 12.0 mi, 335° NW
- Boronda History Center (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 218° SW
- Pajaro Valley Historical Association (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 292° W
- Henry W. Coe State Park (State Park) — 14.2 mi, 025° NE
- Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.8 mi, 242° SW · 1,131 acres
- Fort Ord National Monument (National Monument) — 17.1 mi, 210° SW · 15k acres
- Pinnacles National Park (National Park) — 26.3 mi, 142° SE · 27k acres
- Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 31.7 mi, 192° S · 1.8M acres
- Ventana Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 31.9 mi, 196° S · 236k acres
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About This San Juan Bautista Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Juan Bautista, California. Coordinates: 36.845511, -121.537997. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for San Juan Bautista includes the ZIP code (95045), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of San Benito County (Hollister), and school district assignment (Aromas-San Juan Unified School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
