You’re in the right place to find all the Oakland street sweeping information like maps, schedules, holidays, tickets, jobs and more.
Oakland is a city in Northern California and across the bay bridge from San Francisco and south of Berkeley, and next Alameda.
If you live there or are just passing through, the info below will help you avoid getting a parking citation and know when the sweeper will come by your street.
Oakland Street Sweeping Schedule
Follow all the posted street sweeping signs on your street. The map below is for reference only.
The best way to find the street sweeping schedule is to use this interactive map that’s provided by the city. (There are way too many streets to list here)
Enter your address below to get the dates and times the street gets cleaned.
https://oakgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=075bf89b418c4fbd9a4c5a8e93200711
Oakland Street Sweeping Map
Use the interactive map linked below. It’s easier to use the map on your desktop or laptop than on your mobile phone.
Holidays that impact street sweeping
- January 1, 2021 (New Year’s Day holiday observed)
- January 18, 2021 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday observed)
Friday, December 31, 2021 New Year’s Day (Observed)
Monday, January 16, 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
Monday, February 20, 2024 Presidents Day
Friday, April 15, 2024 Good Friday
Monday, May 29, 2024 Memorial Day
Friday, June 17, 2024 Juneteenth (Observed)
Monday, July 4, 2024 Independence Day
Monday, September 4, 2024 Labor Day
Monday, October 9, 2024 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 8, 2024 Election Day
Friday, November 10, 2024 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 23, 2024 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 24, 2024 Day after Thanksgiving
Monday, December 25, 2024 Christmas Day (Observed)
Oakland Twitter Updates
Fall and Winter Leaf Cleaning in Oakland
During the fall and winter months the city asks that you assist in helping keep the streets clean. To help out the city asks that you:
[-] Do not place leaves or other debris into the street or gutters. The street sweeper cannot pick it up. [Oakland Municipal Code §8.38.030] The sweepers are not designed to pick up large piles of leaves.
[-] Do not sweep leaves from your front yard, sidewalk or planter strip onto the street. Oakland Municipal Code §13.16.100 states, in part: “Sweepings from said sidewalk shall not be swept or otherwise made or allowed to go into the gutter or roadway, but shall be disposed of in receptacles maintained on said real property as required for the disposal of garbage.” [Oakland Municipal Code §13.16.100A]
[-] Please utilize your green yard trimmings and food scraps cart to its capacity.
[-] Working together, we can minimize the added impacts of the leaf season.
https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/fall-and-winter-leaf-waste
Get a parking ticket? Here’s what you can do
[+] Pay the ticket
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/pay-a-parking-ticket
[+] Challenge the ticket
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/contest-a-parking-ticket
[+] Request a payment plan
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/parking-ticket-payment-plan
[+] Request a parking ticket refund
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/parking-ticket-refund
[+] Request an Administrative Hearing for the parking ticket decision
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/request-an-administrative-hearing
[+] Sign up for parking alerts (so it doesn’t happen again!)
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/sign-up-for-parking-alerts
How much is this parking ticket?
Here’s a list of some of the most common parking violations in the city.
- Expired meter – $58
- Failure to display parking receipt – $58
- Parking in a Red Zone – $83
- Parking in a Bus Zone – $265
- Impeding a lane of traffic (double parking) – $41
- Failure to cramp wheels on grade – $45
- Parking in the wrong direction on a one-way street – $48
- Parking in the wrong direction on a two-way street – $63
- Parking in a Residential Parking Permit Zone – $83
Street Sweeping Jobs in Oakland
There are a few places you can look if you want a job as a street sweeper in the bay area.
The first place is to look at the city’s careers page to see if there are any openings or if you can submit a resume.
https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/job-opportunities
Next, if you want to work for a private company you can search sites like ziprecruiter.com
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Jobs/Street-Sweeper-Operator/-in-Oakland,CA
Did we miss anything?
We do our best to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding street sweeping in Oakland. If notice any errors or need us to update or ad anything, let us know in the comments.
Thanks!
I like at 450 40th and it’s listed cleaning days are the 2nd and 4th Mon/Tues. So I got a ticket when I first moved in and learned that basically you have to count in FULL weeks, meaning if a new month starts on like a Tues, that will NOT count as a full week, you start at the next week. Well I learned this week that – that’s not really the case. Take February 2022.. street cleaning was done on the 7th/8th, that’s not technically the 2nd FULL week. If you go by FULL weeks we should only have street cleaning once this month. It’s just confusing. Thankfully I was home and didn’t get a ticket. I’m trying to find an actual calendar for street cleaning in my area that I can go by. If you can help that would be super.
Last 3 Thursdays and Fridays, as residents, on Myrtle Street, the streets have not been swept but we scrambled to find alternative parkings. Why there should be tickets issued when our street was not cleaned? We obey the rules but does city have an obligation to let residents know of their short comings?