Santa Maria, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Friday.

Friday is what one Santa Maria address returned on October 26, 2026.

Set out containers by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day.

Place them at the curb at least five feet apart and away from vehicles or other obstructions.

When a holiday falls on a weekday, residential collection is delayed by one day for the rest of that week.

Plastic bags of any kind, compostable ones included, are not accepted in the recycling or organics containers and belong in the trash.

Read from the official Santa Maria guidance on August 23, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Santa Maria depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

The example days above are read from City of Santa Maria Utilities Department and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Santa Maria follows the most common pattern: collection slides a day after a holiday. The city's published rule: When a holiday falls on a weekday, residential collection is delayed by one day for the rest of that week.

The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the rule means for each if Santa Maria observes it. The city's own calendar governs which holidays it observes.

Santa Maria publishes its collection routes as a map (City of Santa Maria): each route area carries a fixed weekday for trash; the lookup reads that area for your address.

We last checked Santa Maria on August 17, 2026: 6 of 6 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Santa Maria's pickup days.

City of Santa Maria Utilities Department publishes trash days for Santa Maria; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Santa Maria Utilities Department, not here.

The nearest guides to Santa Maria are Santa Barbara, Ventura, Bakersfield and Delano. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.