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Santa Barbara
USA
- Climate : June, July, August: on most days, highs of 22 to 29 °C
- Getting there : about 145 km from Los Angeles
- Population : 86 452 inhabitants
- 1 school
Improve your English in a human-sized coastal city, well suited to gradual immersion.
Santa Barbara: 1 school. Homestay accounts for 45% of a 4-week budget on average. Last check of this page's rates: October 12, 2026.
Why choose Santa Barbara to learn English?
Santa Barbara keeps a pleasant local scale, which makes regular immersion in English easier.
You move forward at a sustained but controlled pace, between study time, real exposure to the language and clear organisation.
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Santa Barbara at a glance
Santa Barbara keeps a comfortable setting for practising English at both the school's and the city's rhythm.
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The city in brief
Living environment
Living environment
Californian coastal city, between beaches, historic centre, parks, museums and access to the mountains.
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Santa Barbara is located in California, on the edge of the channel of the same name between the wide beaches of the U.S.A's Pacific coast and the hills of the Santa Ynez Mountains. 145km north-west of Los Angeles, it forms a single urban area with the neighbouring towns of Goleta, Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria. The Santa Barbara region also enjoys a sunny Mediterranean climate, characterised by mild temperatures all year round, dry summers and peak rainfall in winter. The local aquatic wildlife is also home to some 30 species of whales, dolphins and seals.
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history & culture
Built on the territory of the Chumash Native Americans, Santa Barbara was originally a fortress founded by Spanish missionaries in 1782 and the city's current architecture, in which many houses have a roof of red barrel tiles, has kept that picturesque colonial character, with Mexican-style buildings as well, such as the old station. Because just like Los Angeles, the city was conquered by Mexico after it gained independence, before being ceded along with the rest of California to the United States by the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo in 1848. Today, the city is mainly a tourist seaside resort and a favoured destination for holidaymakers.
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In Santa Barbara, activities depend a great deal on the local setting: enjoying the beaches, State Street, the markets, the cafés and seaside outings.