Bellflower, CA Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

An annual night cap is a way for cities that allow short-term rentals to limit their intensity - capping the number of nights a home may be rented in a year, sometimes only when the host is away. Bellflower has not adopted any STR ordinance, so it has no night cap, no rolling-12-month limit, and no booking-night reporting requirement; there is no number of permitted STR nights because the use itself is not permitted in residential zones. The closest fixed threshold in Bellflower's code is the 30-day line that separates transient from non-transient occupancy: the Municipal Code defines a transient as someone occupying lodging for 30 consecutive days or less, and the city's ADU regulations require that an ADU or junior ADU be rented for a term of 30 days or longer. Those provisions mark where short-term lodging is restricted to hotels and motels rather than capping how many nights a home may be rented. As a result, the practical answer in Bellflower is zero permitted short-term nights for a residence - not a numeric annual cap - because any rental of a home for 30 days or fewer is outside the permitted residential uses. Owners considering longer-term rentals (30 days or more) should confirm that those leases comply with applicable zoning and any rental-housing requirements, but those are not short-term rentals and fall outside this prohibition.