Street Sweeping

Street sweeping (and parking enforcement in sweeping zones) is canceled on the following holidays:

2026
January 1 (Thursday) - New Year's Day
January 19 (Monday) - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
February 16 (Monday) - Presidents' Day  
March 31 (Tuesday) - Cesar Chavez Day 
May 25 (Monday) - Memorial Day   
June 19 (Friday) - Juneteenth
September 7 (Monday) - Labor Day  
November 11 (Wednesday) - Veterans Day
November 26-27 (Thursday and Friday) - Thanksgiving Day and the day after
December 25 (Friday) - Christmas Day

2027
January 1 (Friday) - New Year's Day

Please note: Sweeping will resume on the next regularly scheduled day and time following each holiday. There will be no shift in schedule or make-up days.

Rain and holidays are the two main reasons why street sweeping (sweeping) may be canceled. Related parking enforcement in signed sweeping areas are also canceled when sweeping is canceled.

An announcement of sweeping cancelations is made on the Street Sweeping Hotline (805) 897-1903 and an alert will be posted on this webpage. 

Sweeping will resume on the next regularly scheduled day and time. There is no shift in schedule or make-up day. 

Rain:
Street sweeping is usually canceled when runoff fills the gutters. Steady rain, not just showers, is needed to warrant cancelation. Please do not assume that any rain results in automatic cancelation - check this webpage or call the Hotline before you park!

Holidays:
Please view the Holiday Sweeping Cancelations above. The outgoing message on the Street Sweeping hotline will be updated and an alert will be posted on this webpage announcing scheduled holiday sweeping cancelations.

• To assist in efficient sweeping, please remove all vehicles and obstructions such as trash cans and leaf piles from the street in front of your house during your scheduled sweeping time.  
• If your street or block is not part of the regular sweeping schedule, it is probably because the street is too narrow or too steep for the street sweeper truck; nevertheless, if debris is a problem, please contact the Streets office or the Street Sweeping Hotline to request a special clean-up.
• Residential neighborhoods are swept during the daytime and the commercial and arterial routes and downtown business areas are swept overnight.
• Regular street sweeping occurs on about 80% of Santa Barbara’s 254 miles of paved streets within the Santa Barbara city limits.
• Sweeping frequency is tied to accumulation of debris, density of population, and usage, and is scheduled from as often as four times per week to twice a month.
• The street sweepers annually remove approximately 1,850 tons of debris, trash, and other harmful constituents that would have otherwise ended up in our storm drains, creeks, and eventually the ocean.