St. Petersburg, Florida is 19% larger than Santa Clarita, California.
Area: 139 km2 calculated
Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the third largest city in Los Angeles County, California, United States and the eighteenth largest city in the state of California, based on the population estimate from the California Department of Finance. Wikipedia
Area: 166 km2 calculated
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2013 census estimate, the population was 249,688, making St. Petersburg the 5th most populous city in the state of Florida and the largest city in Florida that is not a county seat. St. Wikipedia