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/92261

92261

ZIP 92261 is in Palm Desert, California, in Riverside County; area codes 760 and 442; Pacific time. Palm Desert has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 92211, 92255 and 92260.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Riverside
Coordinates
33.6604, -116.4082

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 92561, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

☼ Live from 92261 — Palm Desert, CA

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 92261 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 92261
  • 🔢 Type 92261 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: IgZZG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 92,261 = 13 × 47 × 151. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110100001100101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 92260 (Palm Desert, CA, 3 mi away) and 92262 (Palm Springs, CA, 16 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 92261 becomes 16229 — and that is a real ZIP code: Freeport, PA, 2,065 miles away.
  • 👥 23 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12926, 12962, 16229, 16922, 21629, 26219, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96212 in APO AA, a military post office, 6,061 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 81% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 89%.
  • 🎯1,073 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 92261 and you would come out at 33.66°S, 63.59°E — 1,005 miles from Port Louis, Mauritius, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 23m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 55m.
🌙 The sky over 92261 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

Business and tax activity

Business establishments7This ZIP7
Employees195This ZIP195
Annual payroll$7,699,000This ZIP$7,699,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 92261

ZIPCityDistance
92260 Palm Desert, CA 2.5 mi
92255 Palm Desert, CA 4.7 mi
92210 Indian Wells, CA 5.3 mi
92264 Palm Springs, CA 6.3 mi
92247 La Quinta, CA 6.6 mi
92248 La Quinta, CA 6.6 mi
92253 La Quinta, CA 6.7 mi
92270 Rancho Mirage, CA 7.3 mi
92211 Palm Desert, CA 8.4 mi
92235 Cathedral City, CA 8.9 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 92261 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 92261?

92261 is in Palm Desert, California, in Riverside County, part of the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.6604, -116.4082.

What county is 92261 in?

92261 lies in Riverside County.

What area code is 92261?

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

What time zone is 92261 in?

92261 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 92261?

The closest are 92260 (2.5 mi), 92255 (4.7 mi), 92210 (5.3 mi), 92264 (6.3 mi) and 92247 (6.6 mi).

Is 92261 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. “92261 ZIP Code — Palm Desert, California (Riverside County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/92261

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/92261.json

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