Garage & Yard Sales in California (2026)

Unincorporated Alameda County caps garage sales at two per property every 12 months, with each sale limited to two…

Alhambra residents can hold a yard or garage sale without any permit, but Zoning Code § 23.22.280(A)(1) caps each sale…

Anaheim residents may hold a garage sale only on the first full weekend of March, June, September and December, and…

Antioch's zoning code caps garage sales at three consecutive days and three sales per calendar year per residence…

Apple Valley caps garage and yard sales at three per calendar year for a single-family home, each running no more than…

Bakersfield's zoning code caps a garage or yard sale at two consecutive days and no more than twice a year per…

Baldwin Park limits garage sales to one weekend per quarter: the first Saturday and Sunday of March, June, September…

Bellflower requires a City permit for any yard, garage or patio sale, caps each lot to two permits per calendar year…

Berkeley allows garage, yard, and rummage sales on residential property by right, but caps each sale at two days and…

Buena Park caps residential yard sales at two consecutive days per six-month period, allowed only between 8 a.m. and…

Camarillo caps garage and yard sales at two per business tax year for any resident selling only their own personal…

Carson's Yard Sale Control ordinance defines a 'yard sale' as a yard, garage, or patio sale in a residential zone, and…

Ceres requires a permit from the Finance Department for garage sales, limits residents to three sales per calendar…

Chico allows only two garage or yard sales per property in any 12-month period, each capped at three consecutive days…

Chino caps yard and garage sales at two per year per seller, household, or address, each running no more than three…

Chino Hills caps yard, garage, patio, and rummage sales at three per household in any 12-month period, each running no…

Chula Vista caps garage sales at two per calendar year per person or address, with each sale limited to 10 consecutive…

Compton caps residential garage and yard sales at 12 days a calendar year, one per lot, and only on the first Saturday…

Corona caps garage sales at three permits per residence each calendar year and limits each sale to three consecutive…

Cupertino allows only two garage or patio sales per person or household at the same address in any twelve-month period…

Davis caps garage, patio and yard sales at three per calendar year for any address under Section 40.26.132 of the…

Downey caps garage, yard, and moving sales at two per residence per calendar year, each lasting no more than two…

Eastvale caps garage sales at three per calendar year per person and per address, and limits each sale's hours and…

El Cajon caps garage sales at six per calendar year on any residentially developed property, with each sale limited to…

El Dorado County Code Section 130.40.220(E) lets residents hold garage sales by right, but caps single-unit homes at…

El Monte residents may hold no more than two garage sales in any rolling 12-month period, and even those are confined…

Elk Grove caps garage and yard sales at four per calendar year per property, with no single sale running longer than…

Escondido caps garage and yard sales at four per calendar year per single-family site, three consecutive days each, and…

Fairfield limits garage and estate sales to four consecutive days and no more than two per calendar year on any one…

Fontana limits yard and garage sales to four city council-designated weekends per calendar year, running Friday through…

Fresno homeowners can hold up to four garage sales a year at one address under Fresno Municipal Code Section…

Fresno County lets a resident hold occasional garage sales on their own property without a business license, but only…

Garden Grove caps incidental garage sales at four days per calendar year under Municipal Code Section 9.18.030.200…

Hanford caps garage and yard sales at two per year per residential property, with each sale limited to two consecutive…

Hawthorne caps residential garage sales at two permits per individual or address per calendar year, each valid for two…

Hemet caps garage sales at four per address per year, three consecutive days each, at least 30 days apart, and requires…

Hercules exempts nonrecurring garage sales in residential areas from needing a use permit, but only if each sale runs…

Hesperia requires a permit before holding any garage, yard, estate, or rummage sale, and motor vehicles can never be…

Indio requires a permit from the Fire Department Administrative Office before holding a garage, yard, patio, rummage…

Inglewood requires a Finance Director permit for any garage sale and caps households to two permits per calendar year…

Unincorporated Lake County treats garage and yard sales as a non-profit rummage sale use that is capped at more than…

Lakewood caps residential garage and yard sales at two events per calendar year, each running no more than two days…

Lodi caps garage sales at two per calendar year of up to three consecutive days each, or one sale of up to six days…

Long Beach Municipal Code Section 5.40.030 caps how often a single address can run a garage sale: single-family…

Los Banos caps residential garage and yard sales at four per twelve-month period, each running no more than two…

Madera limits residential garage and yard sales to the first Saturday and/or Sunday of each month, no more than two…

Manteca caps home garage sales at three per calendar year, each lasting no more than two consecutive days, and requires…

In unincorporated Mendocino County, a yard sale is capped at six days per calendar year and no more than two…

Merced caps garage sales at four per year per lot, no more than one every three months, each lasting up to three…

Modesto allows garage sales in residential zones, but caps each sale at three consecutive days and limits any one…

Monterey lets residents hold up to four garage sales a year of no more than two consecutive days each, running only…

Moorpark limits residential garage sales to three per calendar year, each lasting up to three consecutive days with a…

Moreno Valley caps garage sales at three per calendar year, whether counted by person or by address, under Municipal…

Murrieta Municipal Code Section 8.20.030(U) caps garage sales at four per calendar year per property, with each sale…

Newport Beach caps residential garage and yard sales at three consecutive days per sale and no more than two sales per…

Norwalk caps each property at two yard sales per calendar year, plus one community yard sale, and no single sale can…

Ontario Municipal Code Sec. 5-15.03 limits garage and yard sales to no more than four weekends a year, on…

Orange limits garage and yard sales to once every four months per address, running no more than four consecutive days…

Oxnard caps residential yard sales at three per calendar year, with at least 30 days between sales at the same address…

In the City of Pacifica, a household or group may hold no more than three garage sales per calendar year, and no single…

Palm Springs allows only one garage, patio or yard sale per residential address every six months, and the sale cannot…

Palmdale caps yard and garage sales at two per calendar year per property, with each sale running no more than three…

Pasadena caps garage, yard, and charity sales in residential zones at two per property every 12 months, with each sale…

Perris caps yard and garage sales at three per year per address, limits each sale to three consecutive days…

Petaluma's Implementing Zoning Ordinance caps a garage sale at three consecutive days and allows only one per address…

Pomona calls a garage sale an occasional sale, and the City Code hands the calendar to the city council: it adopts a…

Rancho Cucamonga limits residential yard sales to one sale of up to two consecutive days per parcel every six months…

Redding allows residents to hold garage or yard sales without any permit, but caps them at three sales per twelve-month…

Redlands limits each individual or household to three yard, garage, patio or rummage sales per twelve-month period…

Redondo Beach caps garage, patio, and similar sales of personal property in residential zones to one sale in any…

Redwood City limits garage sales to two per calendar year at the same address, each lasting no more than three…

Rialto caps garage sales at four per calendar year for any person or address, each lasting no more than three…

Riverside doesn't require a permit or business tax certificate for a yard sale, but Chapter 5.49 of the Municipal Code…

Riverside County limits garage sales in unincorporated areas to three per twelve months, capped at three consecutive…

Within the Sonoma Mountain Village Planned Development, Rohnert Park's zoning glossary caps a garage sale at three…

Roseville limits garage and yard sales to three per calendar year at the same address, each capped at three days, held…

Unincorporated Sacramento County caps garage sales at three per calendar year per parcel, with each sale limited to two…

Salinas requires a permit before any garage, patio or back-yard sale under Sec. 15A-1, and Sec. 15A-3 bars issuing a…

Unincorporated San Benito County caps garage and yard sales at three per calendar year at the same address. Sales…

San Bernardino caps yard sales at 12 per calendar year per seller or location, each lasting no more than three…

Unincorporated San Bernardino County caps garage sales at four per year for single-family homes and three consecutive…

San Diego caps garage, yard, and estate sales at three per property each year, with each sale limited to two…

Unincorporated San Diego County caps garage sales at 3 consecutive days and 4 sales per calendar year per property.

San Jose lets residents hold no more than two garage sales per calendar year, each capped at four consecutive days and…

San Luis Obispo County treats a garage sale as a narrow carve-out from its home-occupation retail ban. County Code Sec…

San Ramon lets a residence hold a garage sale without a Temporary Use Permit, but only three times a year and only for…

Santa Clara residents can hold garage and yard sales without a permit only twice a year, and each sale is capped at two…

Unincorporated Santa Clara County exempts yard and garage sales from outdoor-storage rules only if each sale runs three…

Santa Clarita caps garage and yard sales at three per residential address per calendar year, with each sale limited to…

A Santa Maria garage sale needs a special temporary activity permit from the Community Development Department, and that…

Simi Valley allows a garage or yard sale without a Temporary Use Permit only if it runs no more than three days and…

The City of Sonoma limits patio, garage and yard sales at any residence to once every six months, capped at two…

Unincorporated Sonoma County caps garage and craft sales at two days per calendar year in the AR and RR zones without a…

A South Gate garage-sale permit runs at most three consecutive days, and displayed goods can cover no more than half of…

Stanislaus County caps garage, yard, moving, and patio sales in the unincorporated area to three consecutive days per…

Sunnyvale's zoning code caps garage sales at any one residence to twice per calendar year, with each sale lasting no…

Tracy residents may hold only one garage sale per residential property every four months under Municipal Code section…

Turlock caps garage sales at two permits per calendar year, both capped at three days within any seven-day period, and…

Upland caps yard sales at three per address per calendar year, each running no more than three consecutive days, and…

Vacaville residents can hold a yard or garage sale without a use permit, but only up to two times a year and no more…

Victorville caps garage sales at four nonconsecutive sales per person or parcel per year, each lasting no more than…

Vista caps garage and yard sales at four per calendar year per site, each running no more than three consecutive days…

West Covina caps garage, yard, and moving sales at three per calendar year for any household, individual, or…

Westminster allows residential garage sales but caps them at three per residence per calendar year, with only one…

Whittier caps residential garage sales at one per lot every three months, limited to two consecutive days and running…

Brentwood allows garage sales without any permit, but Municipal Code Section 17.850.006(E) caps them at three per year…

Calaveras County Code § 17.25.220.A.1 lets a resident hold a yard or garage sale of personal property without any use…

Unincorporated Contra Costa County lets homeowners hold garage sales without a temporary event permit, but only up to…

Dublin allows garage and yard sales as a permitted residential accessory use, but caps each sale at two days and limits…

Fremont exempts occasional garage, yard, and similar sales from its vendor-and-solicitor permit chapter, but only…

Fullerton limits a garage sale to three consecutive days and bars repeating one on the same property more often than…

Hayward caps garage and yard sales at four per year per dwelling for single-family homes and four per year per…

Huntington Beach residents may hold a garage sale, defined as 'Personal Property Sales,' for up to 48 consecutive hours…

Garage and yard sales in Los Angeles are permitted as an accessory residential use, limited to five sales events per…

Menifee lets residents hold garage, yard, attic, patio, moving, or rummage sales at their own home without a business…

Unincorporated Merced County allows residential garage and yard sales of used household merchandise, but not more than…

Mountain View residents can hold a garage or yard sale up to four times a year per property, capped at three days per…

Placer County treats garage sales as an exempt category of temporary concession under Code § 5.16.320, but caps them at…

Rancho Cordova caps garage and yard sales at three per calendar year, two consecutive days each, and only on the parcel…

San Leandro limits garage and yard sales to two times per year per residential property. Municipal Code Section…

Garage sale activity in Santa Ana is confined to 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. under City Code § 41-193(2), and subsection (3)…

Residents in unincorporated Santa Cruz County can hold garage or yard sales at their home up to four weekends a year…

Santa Rosa lets residents hold a garage sale without a permit, but only up to three consecutive days and only three…

Stockton limits garage sales on private property to no more than four days per calendar year, exempting them from the…

Thousand Oaks limits residents to two garage or boutique sales per calendar year, each lasting no more than two…

In the City of Ventura, a resident may hold only one garage sale per calendar year, and it cannot run longer than two…

Unincorporated Ventura County lets residents hold up to two garage or yard sales per business tax year without…

Garage sales in Visalia must run between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and cannot last longer than three consecutive days.

Yuba City residents may hold a garage or yard sale for up to three days at a time, but no more than twice a year per…

Butte County exempts garage sales held in residential zones from the Administrative Permit required for every other…

In unincorporated Colusa County, garage sales and yard sales held in residential zones are exempt from the Temporary…

Garage sales in Delano require a permit issued by the Finance Director. Delano Municipal Code §6.22.030 sets the fee at…

Imperial County does not require a special use permit for a garage or yard sale in the R-1 zone as long as the sale…

Kings County doesn't require a Temporary Use Permit for garage or yard sales in residential zoning districts, as long…

Yard sales on the last weekend of each month (the designated weekend) require no permit in unincorporated LA County; up…

A typical garage sale in Sacramento needs no city permit at all. The permit requirement in Chapter 5.80 applies only to…

San Rafael exempts garage and yard sales on private property entirely from its peddler, solicitor, and itinerant…

Residential yard sales in Santa Monica do not require a Temporary Use Permit if held no more than twice per year per…

Residents in unincorporated Yuba County can hold garage sales with no permit or zoning clearance if they stick to the…