Vets in Palo Alto, CA
🚨 Emergency care11 vet clinics in Palo Alto — including 1 with emergency services (marked in red). Call ahead for same-day availability; for after-hours crises, hit the red button.
Red markers = emergency clinics. Click a marker for details.
Veterinary Emergency Group
3903 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306-3319
Verified 2026-09-26
4111 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
3201 E Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303-3213
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
228 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301-2583
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
3045 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2529
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
3944 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00
Verified 2026-09-26
2625 Middlefield Rd PMB 290, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2516
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
3281 E Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303-3213
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
461 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-17:00
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
3337 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
4073 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
Emergency and after-hours cover in Palo Alto
One practice in Palo Alto post 24-hour hours and one offers emergency services — call before setting off; overnight staffing changes and full ICUs divert cases.
Nearest emergency hospitals outside Palo Alto
- Emergency Animal Care — Mountain View, ~2 miles away, roughly a 5 min drive
- United Veterinary Speciality & Emergency — Mountain View, ~2 miles away, roughly a 5 min drive
- MedVet Mountain View — Mountain View, ~3 miles away, roughly a 9 min drive, open 24h
- SAGE Veterinary Centers - Redwood City — Redwood City, ~7 miles away, roughly a 12 min drive, open 24h
Distances are straight-line from Palo Alto; drive times are estimates, not live traffic.
For a suspected poisoning, ASPCA Animal Poison Control on (888) 426-4435 (24/7, consultation fee applies) can give you treatment advice immediately — often while you are still deciding whether to drive anywhere.
What vets in Palo Alto say they offer
Grouped from what each practice states on its own website — we read 6 of the 11 listed here. A practice missing from a row hasn't said so on its site; that is not the same as not offering it, so call to check.
- Same-day appointments (1)
- Universal Pet Hospital
- House calls (1)
- The Animal Doctors
- Grooming (1)
- Universal Pet Hospital
- Ultrasound (1)
- Palo Alto Animal Hospital
- Orthopedic surgery (1)
- Palo Alto Animal Hospital
- Cardiology (1)
- Palo Alto Animal Hospital
- Dermatology (1)
- Palo Alto Animal Hospital
- End-of-life care & euthanasia (4)
- Animal Hospital of Palo Alto, Palo Alto Animal Hospital, Peaceful Pathways In-home Pet Hospice And Euthanasia, Universal Pet Hospital
- AAHA-accredited (1)
- The Animal Doctors
- Fear Free certified staff (1)
- Universal Pet Hospital
About this list
Ordering is objective — 24/7 first, then emergency services, then alphabetical — and no clinic can pay for placement. Across United States, an emergency exam typically runs $100–$250 and an overnight emergency $800–$3,000 — full cost breakdown · if you cannot pay.