Placitas, New Mexico

Current Weather

Placitas is located in Sandoval County.

Placitas is 1,810 feet [551.69 m] above sea level.^<1>

Time Zone: Placitas lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Placitas, but it seems to be unique to this community.

While we we don't have population counts for Placitas, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Placitas).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008<3> Population	Change Since 2000
	Albuquerque	SW	18 mi [28.97 km]	521,999	16.36% increase
	Algodones	NW	5 mi [8.05 km]	---
	Bernalillo	W	7 mi [11.27 km]	9,237	39.72% increase
	Corrales	SW	12 mi [19.31 km]	7,787	6.18% increase
	Los Ranchos de Albuquerque	SW	16 mi [25.75 km]	5,622	10.41% increase
	Pueblo of Sandia Village	SW	9 mi [14.48 km]	---

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Placitas.

The Commemorative Quarter for New Mexico<4>

Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' has proven to be a useful tool by people who planned visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Placitas. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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