Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/92046

92046

ZIP 92046 is in Escondido, California, in San Diego County; area codes 760 and 442; Pacific time. Escondido has 7 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
San Diego
Coordinates
33.1192, -117.0864

The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area of its own. Its point falls inside ZCTA 92025, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

☼ Live from 92046 — Escondido, CA

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 92046 is

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area, so there is no boundary to draw — the marker is its published point location.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 92046
  • 🔢 Type 92046 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ghOZG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 92,046 = 2 × 3 × 23 × 23 × 29. Its digits add up to 21, a total 2,594 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110011110001110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 92040 (Lakeside, CA, 18 mi away) and 92049 (Oceanside, CA, 18 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 92046 becomes 64029 — and that is a real ZIP code: Grain Valley, MO, 1,336 miles away.
  • 👥 50 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02649, 04629, 04926, 04962, 06249, 06492, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09624 in APO AE, a military post office, 6,347 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 84% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 90%.
  • 🎯1,125 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 92046 and you would come out at 33.12°S, 62.91°E — 955 miles from Port Louis, Mauritius, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 21m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 58m.
🌙 The sky over 92046 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

Business and tax activity

Business establishments7This ZIP7
Employees35This ZIP35
Annual payroll$1,694,000This ZIP$1,694,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 92046

ZIPCityDistance
92030 Escondido, CA 0.0 mi
92033 Escondido, CA 0.0 mi
92029 Escondido, CA 3.2 mi
92096 San Marcos, CA 4.1 mi
92025 Escondido, CA 4.2 mi
92079 San Marcos, CA 4.9 mi
92078 San Marcos, CA 5.5 mi
92069 San Marcos, CA 5.7 mi
92027 Escondido, CA 6.4 mi
92026 Escondido, CA 6.7 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 92046 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 92046?

92046 is in Escondido, California, in San Diego County, part of the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.1192, -117.0864.

What county is 92046 in?

92046 lies in San Diego County.

What area code is 92046?

Escondido uses area codes 760 and 442, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 92046 in?

92046 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 92046?

The closest are 92030 (0 mi), 92033 (0 mi), 92029 (3.2 mi), 92096 (4.1 mi) and 92025 (4.2 mi).

Is 92046 a PO Box ZIP code?

Possibly. The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “92046 ZIP Code — Escondido, California (San Diego County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/92046

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/92046.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.