Its administrative centre is Situbondo, a small town within the regency.

One of its famous tourist sites is Baluran National Park.

The Regency is divided into seventeen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their population totals from the 2010 Census[2] and the 2020 Census,[3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.

[1] The table also includes the locations of the district headquarters and the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 132 rural desa and 4 urban kelurahan), and its post codes.

Situbondo has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) with heavy rainfall from December to March and moderate to little rainfall from April to November.