San Juan Bautista, California

San Juan Bautista
City
City of San Juan Bautista
Clockwise: Mission San Juan Bautista; the Pico-Boronda Adobe; José Castro House; Downtown San Juan Bautista; Jardines de San Juan.
Seal
Motto:  City Of History
Location in San Benito County and the state of California
San Juan Bautista Location in the United States
Coordinates: 36°50′39″N 121°32′14″W / 36.84417°N 121.53722°W / 36.84417; -121.53722
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Benito
Incorporated	May 4, 1896[1]
Named for	Saint John the Baptist
Government
• Mayor	Leslie Q. Jordan[2]
• City Manager	Don Reynolds[3]
Area [4]
• Total	0.79 sq mi (2.03 km2)
• Land	0.79 sq mi (2.03 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)  0.06%
Elevation [5]	217 ft (66 m)
Population  (2020)[6]
• Total	2,089
• Estimate  (2019)[7]	2,104
• Density	2,680.25/sq mi (1,035.29/km2)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	95045
Area code	831
FIPS code	06-68014
GNIS feature IDs	1659581, 2411792
Website	www.san-juan-bautista.ca.us

San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census.^[6] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén, with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista. Following the Mexican secularization of 1833, the town was briefly known as San Juan de Castro and eventually incorporated in 1896. Today, San Juan is a popular tourist destination, as the home of the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park and other important historic sites, as well as cultural institutions like El Teatro Campesino.

The location was used for scenes in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, though the church tower, which had been demolished years earlier by fire, was added by special effects.