Tomales California Map

About Tomales, California

Tomales is a locality in Marin County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 187. The population density is 217.5 people per km². Tomales is located at 38.2463°N, 122.9056°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 94971.

Tomales occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic pulse of Keys Creek as it winds through the verdant, grass-covered terrain that slopes toward the Pacific Ocean. It lies 12.8 miles west-southwest of Rohnert Park, CA (from Rohnert Park, CA: bearing 240°T), and is situated 16.9 miles southwest of Santa Rosa. The air here holds a heavy, salt-sweet moisture, often cooling under the weight of a thick fog that rolls in from the coast to dampen the golden, tinder-dry grasses of late summer. While the Coast Ranges remain a distant, hazy silhouette against the horizon, the immediate environment is intimate and tactile, marked by the sharp, clean scent of earth and the quiet persistence of the tide. Residents often note how the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the fields, casting long, lean shadows that seem to stretch from the nearby Chileno Valley all the way to the jagged edges of the shoreline.

History in Tomales is etched into the weathered wood of its storefronts and the stubborn, agricultural backbone of the local economy, which remains tethered to the land and the surrounding pastures. Generations have organized their lives around the cycles of dairy and coastal harvest, maintaining a pace that favors deliberate action over the frantic urgency found elsewhere. Visitors occasionally congregate at the Keys Creek Fishing Access to witness the quiet intersection of water and wild space, or they venture toward the Tomales Point Trail to catch sight of the distant, mist-shrouded expanse of Hog Island. Even as the modern world intrudes, Tomales persists as a place where the seasons dictate the labor of the day, and the slow, steady transformation of the landscape remains the most significant event of the year.

About This Tomales Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tomales, California. Coordinates: 38.246307, -122.905552. 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 Tomales includes the ZIP code (94971), telephone area code (510), county seat of Marin County (San Rafael), and school district assignment (Shoreline Unified School District).

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.