California has 4,749 licensed cannabis cultivators as of August 2026, operating across 41 cities. The count comes straight from the California Department of Cannabis Control licence database and refreshes weekly.
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California has the most licensed cannabis cultivators of the 5 states where we track this licence class.
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Methodology
Cultivation licences in California are issued and renewed by the California Department of Cannabis Control (CA DCC), typically tiered by canopy size and by whether the grow is indoor, outdoor or mixed-light. Every record here is matched against that public licence file and refreshed weekly, so a licence that lapses or is revoked drops out.
See the California cultivator list for the records behind this count, or the national cannabis cultivator statistics for every state at once.
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California has 4,749 licensed cannabis cultivators as of August 2026, spread across 41 cities. The count is verified against the California Department of Cannabis Control (CA DCC) licence database and refreshed weekly.
Humboldt County leads California with 838 licensed cultivators, followed by Santa Barbara County with 594.
The California Department of Cannabis Control (CA DCC) public licence database. We re-crawl it weekly, deduplicate licensees, and drop closed or revoked licences, so the figure reflects cultivators actually operating — not every licence ever issued.
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