San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, located in the San Ramon Valley about 34–35 miles east of San Francisco.

Quick Scoop: Where Is San Ramon, California?

  • San Ramon is in Northern California, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • It sits in the San Ramon Valley, between the communities of Danville (to the north) and Dublin (to the south)..
  • By car, it’s roughly a 40–45 minute drive east from downtown San Francisco in normal traffic.
  • The city is part of Contra Costa County and covers about 18.5 square miles of suburban and business areas.
  • Major nearby landmarks include Mount Diablo to the northeast and the I‑680 freeway running north–south through the area.

If you’re picturing it on a map

Think of the Bay Area as a rough circle: San Francisco on the west edge, Oakland slightly east across the Bay Bridge, then keep going inland along the I‑580/I‑680 corridors and you reach San Ramon tucked in a valley east of the major bayshore cities.

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