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

The City of Turlock does not impose an annual night cap or maximum-rental-days limit on short-term rentals, and no such cap appears in the municipal code, because the City has not adopted an STR-specific ordinance. The only relevant time threshold in Turlock's code is the 30-day rule in its Transient Occupancy Tax: a guest staying 30 days or less is a 'transient' whose rent is taxable at 9%, while stays over 30 days are not subject to TOT. That threshold defines who is a taxable transient on a per-stay basis; it is not a limit on how many nights per year a property may be rented. Some third-party AI host-guide sites assert that Turlock 'specifies the maximum number of days per year that a property can be rented out,' but no such annual cap exists in the city's actual code, and that claim should be treated as fabricated or generic boilerplate rather than verified Turlock law. By comparison, unincorporated Stanislaus County and California state law do not set a Turlock-specific annual night cap either. Operators are still responsible for collecting and remitting the 9% TOT on every qualifying stay of 30 days or less. Hosts should confirm with the Planning Division whether any future ordinance has introduced operating-day limits before relying on unlimited operation.