Clyde is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

[6] In 1917, the United States Shipping Board provided a government loan to the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company to build a company town.

[7] The board commissioned Bernard Maybeck to be supervising architect for laying out the new town.

He designed the hotel and around 200 of the initial homes built in the town.

The 2010 United States Census[25] reported that Clyde had a population of 678.