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San Diego is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, United States.
Description[]
The flag of San Diego is an equal vertical tricolor of red, white, and golden yellow, with a stylized version of the San Diego city seal in the center of the flag, entirely inside the white stripe. Semicircling below the city seal, in black, is the year "1542".
Symbolism[]
The explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered San Diego, the first California port entered by a Spanish ship, in 1542. Red and gold recall the Spanish flag, and red and white are also found in the United States flag. The gold is a reminder of the precious metal that transformed California from a wilderness to a prosperous state.
Variant[]
The variant flag occasionally used by the city government alongside the regular version is a modification of the city flag with a partially inverted city seal and a gold outline of the text "1542."
2004 NAVA survey[]
The flag ranked 57th on the 2004 NAVA city flag survey, with a score of 3.70 out of 10, behind Raleigh and ahead of Arlington.
Proposals/Redesigns[]
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