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Bodega Bay is an unincorporated village and census-designated place on the Sonoma County coast, strung along State Route 1 on the eastern shore of Bodega Harbor.

Bodega Bay is named for Spanish naval officer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, who explored the bay in 1775.

Bodega Bay holds the site of the first Russian structures built in California, erected in 1809 by Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov of the Russian-American Company; the settlement was called Port Rumyantsev and served as the supply port for Fort Ross.

Bodega Bay became world-famous as a filming location for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds, shot in and around Bodega Bay and the inland village of Bodega, and the town still runs a Birds-themed visitor center.

In the 1960s PG&E tried to build a nuclear power plant on Bodega Head, but protests (among the first major environmental protests in the US) and the discovery of a geologic fault in the reactor excavation killed the project; the flooded dig is still known as the Hole in the Head.

The 2020 census counted 912 people in Bodega Bay, down from 1,077 in 2010 and 1,423 in 2000.

Bodega Bay had 460 households in 2020 but 1,009 housing units, and more than half of those homes (54.4%) stood vacant, reflecting its many second homes and vacation rentals.

Bodega Bay is one of California's oldest communities by age: its median age in 2020 was 63.9 years, and nearly half of residents (47.5%) were 65 or older.

Bodega Bay has a cool warm-summer Mediterranean climate, with foggy, windy summer afternoons and no month averaging warmer than about 72 degrees Fahrenheit.

The long string of beaches in Sonoma Coast State Park stretches north of Bodega Bay, while Doran Regional Park and its sheltered harbor beach sit just south of town.