San Miguel California Map
Explore San Miguel, 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 Miguel, California
How to Use This San Miguel, California Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Miguel, 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 Miguel.
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 Miguel |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Luis Obispo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.886699 |
| Longitude | -122.036833 |
| Population | 3,591 |
| Density | 1320.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 93451, 94596 |
| Area Code | 805, 510 |
| County Seat | San Luis Obispo |
| School District | Acalanes Union High School District |
About San Miguel, California
San Miguel is a locality in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,591. The population density is 1320.5 people per km². San Miguel is located at 37.8867°N, 122.0368°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93451, 94596.San Miguel occupies a sun-bleached expanse where the Salinas River carves a deliberate path through the tawny, sun-scorched earth. It lies 8.1 miles north-northwest of El Paso de Robles, CA (from El Paso de Robles, CA: bearing 344°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north of Paso Robles. The landscape surrounding San Miguel unfolds in wide, rhythmic swells of grass and scattered oak, where the heat of midday turns the air into a shimmering, invisible veil. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Coast Ranges anchors the horizon, while the terrain closer to home drops into the rugged, shadowed folds of Mahoney Canyon. At the center of the daily commute, the golden light of the late afternoon catches the dust of the fields, illuminating a quiet, dry beauty that settles over the land long before the sun dips below the ridge.
History remains a living tenant in San Miguel, visible in the heavy stone walls of the old mission that has watched over the valley floor for generations. The local economy persists in the steady, patient work of agriculture, with cattle grazing on the open plains and orchards drawing life from the deeper soil nearby. Residents gather under the shade of the trees at San Miguel Community Park, a space that serves as the quiet anchor for the day’s activities. While Lake Nacimiento remains a distant, cool presence eleven miles to the north, the rhythm of life here is defined by the river’s slow transit and the persistent, quiet endurance of a landscape that has seen the passage of time without ever rushing to meet it.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Shell Ridge Open Space (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 028° NE
- Rudgear Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 142° SE
- Sugarloaf Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 187° S
- Diablo Foothills Regional Park (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 110° E
- Old Borges Ranch (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 083° E
- J.M. James House (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 174° S
- Stone Valley (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 174° S
- Mount Diablo State Park (State Park) — 2.6 mi, 096° E
- Briones/Las Trampas Trail - land bank (Local Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 263° W
- Storyvanes (Public Artwork) — 3.1 mi, 020° N
- Las Trampas Wilderness Regional Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 191° S
- Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society (Museum) — 3.2 mi, 321° NW
- Sentinel Rock (Viewpoint) — 6.0 mi, 113° SE
- Concord Historical Museum (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 001° N
- Donner Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 6.4 mi, 075° E
- Labyrinth (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 313° NW
- Clayton Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 056° NE
- Alhambra Creek Valley Staging Area (Attraction) — 6.7 mi, 316° NW
- US Army helicopter (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 352° N
- Historic Green Ranch Site (Historic Ruins) — 7.0 mi, 099° E
- Blackhawk Gallery (Gallery) — 8.8 mi, 133° SE
- Ask Jeeves Planetarium (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 239° SW
- Tien MegaDome Theater (Cinema) — 9.1 mi, 239° SW
- Chabot Space and Science Center (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 239° SW
- THE LOT City Center (Cinema) — 9.5 mi, 154° SE
- Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.6 mi, 200° S · 81k acres
- San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.0 mi, 320° NW · 43k acres
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 21.2 mi, 259° W · 113k acres
- California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 25.5 mi, 255° W · 8,946 acres
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About This San Miguel Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Miguel, California. Coordinates: 37.886699, -122.036833. 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 Miguel includes the ZIP code (93451, 94596), telephone area code (805, 510), county seat of San Luis Obispo County (San Luis Obispo), and school district assignment (Acalanes Union High 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. |
