City in California, United States

Seal Beach

$799kMedian Home
349Sunny Days/yr
72°FAvg High Temp
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View on MapPopulation25kElevation13 ft
Climate ReadSteady year-roundNo real winterWinter rain
Deterministic read from annual climate patterns

Very steady year-round, with most rain falls in winter. Month-to-month temperature changes stay relatively modest. Humidity is a real part of warm weather.

Seal Beach is a coastal city in Orange County, California, United States. It was originally known as Bay City before it was incorporated into Orange County under its current name on October 24, 1911. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,242, up from 24,168 at the 2010 census.Wikipedia

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Where It Is

Location Context
Seal Beach, California
Latitude33.74°
Longitude-118.10°
Population25k
Altitude13 ft

State Context

CaliforniaU.S. state

California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest state by population, third-largest state by area and the largest state economy in the U.S., with a GDP of approximately $4.3 trillion.Wikipedia

Income tax: 1.00% - 14.40%Avg sales tax: 8.85%Property tax: 0.69%Official school data available

About the Region

California

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$3k/mo
Median Rent
$799k
Median Home Price
Rent burden50% of income
Household Income
$76k
Median annual
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Livability

Internet
Fiber
47%
Cable
98%
address availability
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Climate

Climate ReadSteady year-roundNo real winterWinter rain
Deterministic read from annual climate patterns

Very steady year-round, with most rain falls in winter. Month-to-month temperature changes stay relatively modest. Humidity is a real part of warm weather.

Sunshine
349
sunny days per year
96% of the year
Avg High Temp
72°F
annual average
Humidity
71%
relative humidity
Comfort Score
97/100
Excellent
Temp Swing
17°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
14"
inches per year
Snowfall
0"
inches per year
Air Quality
48
Good AQI
How To Read Comfort

Comfort combines temperature band fit, humidity fit, seasonal swing, and penalties for long stretches of extreme heat or cold. Higher scores mean the yearly pattern stays closer to an easier day-to-day climate band.

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Demographics

Population25k
Altitude13 ftabove sea level
Median Age61 yrs
College Educated51%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home21%of workforce
Poverty Rate6%

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