When will the power be back in Santa Monica, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Santa Monica is a city of about 90,729 residents in Los Angeles County.
Southern California Edison has reported outages for Santa Monica by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Santa Monica is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Santa Monica:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Santa Monica: the closest other places we track are Culver City, about 6 miles to the east; El Segundo, about 8 miles to the southeast; Los Angeles, about 9 miles to the northeast; and West Hollywood, about 9 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Manhattan Beach (10 mi SE), Inglewood (10 mi E), Hawthorne (11 mi SE), Lawndale (12 mi SE), Redondo Beach (13 mi SE), Calabasas (13 mi NW), Gardena (14 mi SE) and Malibu (15 mi W).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward San Fernando (20 mi); northeast toward Glendale (19 mi); east toward Huntington Park (17 mi); southeast toward Torrance (15 mi); south toward Rancho Palos Verdes (20 mi); and northwest toward Agoura Hills (18 mi).
Who serves Santa Monica?
We track live outage data from Southern California Edison, LADWP and Glendale Water & Power in Los Angeles County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Pasadena, City of Burbank Water and Power, City of Industry and 2 others also serve parts of Los Angeles County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
Santa Monica's last tracked outage began Oct 11, peaked at 55 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 9 hours.
- Oct 11 — 55 customers out, restored in an hour
- Oct 10 — 366 customers out, restored in 13 hours
- Oct 7 — 687 customers out, restored in 5 hours
- Oct 5 — 3,117 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of Los Angeles County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 35.5 hr. The full record for Los Angeles County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Santa Monica, CA?
To check your own street, search a Santa Monica ZIP code — 90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, 90405, 90406 or any of the other 5 — and the map opens on that area.
