California Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 27 September 2026

You can listen to California radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. California is home to some of the most-played internet stations in the world — Radio Paradise, SomaFM's channels from San Francisco — as well as big public and community stations.

Internet stations

• Radio Paradise — an eclectic, listener-supported mix of rock, world, electronic and more, the most-voted California station in the directory, with Mellow and Rock mixes.
• SomaFM — listener-supported channels from San Francisco, including Groove Salad (downtempo), Secret Agent (spy-jazz lounge), Underground 80s, Drone Zone and Metal Detector.
• 101 Smooth Jazz — smooth jazz and easy listening.

Public and community

• KQED 88.5 — NPR from San Francisco.
• KPFA — listener-supported community radio from Berkeley.

City by city

• For Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, see the city guides below — each lists its own public, commercial and college stations.

The sound of the state

KPFA, founded in Berkeley in 1949, was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States, and SomaFM has streamed from San Francisco since 2000. Los Angeles radio, San Francisco radio and San Diego radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

California keeps Pacific time — eight hours behind UTC in winter and seven in summer.

A route in

1. Radio Paradise, for the eclectic mix.
2. SomaFM Groove Salad, for downtempo.
3. KPFA, for community radio.

For the biggest city, Los Angeles radio online is next.