CA · West
California license plates
California’s long-running passenger serial is one digit, three letters, three digits (1ABC123). This hub is the parent of the format essay and the combinations index. Reload to draw a new strip of in-format examples; the format page itself does not shuffle.
- Pattern
- 9AAA999
- Skeleton
- 3 letters + 4 digits
- Serials in map
- 156,250,000
- Atlas year
- 1980
California format Combinations
California exhausted AAA 999 in the 1970s and introduced the seven-character 1ABC123 format in 1980. The leading digit increments as letter blocks roll. Sequential passenger plates are not vanity phrases.
Letter I is often avoided. A string like SPR9932 (letters first) is not a California passenger serial.
Catalogue samples (stable)
Seeded from the state slug so crawlers see the same eight URLs on every request.
Fresh draws (this request)
PHP mt_rand. Reload for another set of California serials.