Street sweeping in Ocean Beach

In 2025 the City of San Diego wrote 5,907 street-sweeping tickets in Ocean Beach, worth about $460,528 in fines. Here's where they landed, and when each of those blocks is swept.

Narrow streets, a lot of renters, and every space on Voltaire and West Point Loma spoken for. Sweeping runs on most of OB's main streets on Wednesdays and Fridays.

5,907sweeping tickets in 2025
$460,528in sweeping fines
Voltaire Stmost-ticketed street here (1,071 sweeping tickets)
$83.50per sweeping ticket in 2026

Most-ticketed streets

Sweeping tickets written on each street in 2025, and the weekdays most of them were written.

StreetTicketsBusiest ticket days
Voltaire St1,071Wednesday & Friday
West Point Loma Blvd981Friday & Wednesday
Bacon St620Friday & Wednesday
Abbott St610Wednesday & Friday
Cable St391Wednesday & Friday
Sunset Cliffs Blvd316Wednesday & Thursday
Santa Monica Ave286Thursday & Wednesday
Muir Ave267Wednesday & Thursday
Cape May Ave251Wednesday & Thursday
Saratoga Ave230Wednesday & Thursday
Brighton Ave224Wednesday & Friday
Long Branch Ave221Wednesday & Thursday

The most-ticketed blocks, and when they're swept

Schedules are the city's own record for each block. Signs on the block are always the final word.

BlockBetweenSweeping schedule2025 tickets
Voltaire St
5000–5099		Bacon St & Abbott St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday348
Voltaire St
4900–4999		Cable St & Bacon St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday240
Voltaire St
4800–4899		Sunset Cliffs Blvd & Cable St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday223
West Point Loma Blvd
4900–4999		Cable St & Bacon St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday161
Brighton Ave
5100–5189		Abbott St & Spray St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday125
Voltaire St
5100–5199		Abbott St & West Point Loma Blvd7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday125
West Point Loma Blvd
4800–4899		Sunset Cliffs Blvd & Cable St7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday122
Bacon St
2000–2049		Saratoga Ave & Cape May Ave7am–10am · West side: Wednesday · East side: Friday116
Cape May Ave
5100–5159		Abbott St7am–10am · North side: Friday · South side: Wednesday114
Muir Ave
5100–5199		Abbott St & West Point Loma Blvd7am–10am · North side: Wednesday · South side: Friday113

When the sweeper comes

Sweeping hours on the signs here are usually 7am–10am, 10am–1pm, 2am–6am. Many blocks are swept on different days for each side of the street, so the side you parked on tonight matters.

Sweeping skips city holidays and picks up on the next scheduled day. A ticket is $83.50.

Other tickets on these streets

  • Sign violation (time limits, no-parking hours)3,665
  • Red curb1,129
  • Registration tag not displayed797
  • Within 20 ft of a crosswalk584
  • Parked in an alley404

2025 tickets on Ocean Beach's swept streets, excluding sweeping.

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Where these numbers come from. The City of San Diego's open parking-citation data for 2025 (data.sandiego.gov), matched by block address to the city's GeoSweep street-sweeping map, which also supplies each block's schedule and planning area. "Ocean Beach" is the city's own community planning area. About 92% of sweeping tickets could be matched to a block; the rest are left out, so real totals are slightly higher. The $83.50 fine is the amount on sweeping tickets written in 2026. ParkGuard isn't affiliated with the City of San Diego. Updated 2026-09-27.