Market · San Diego metro · within 25 miles
The San Diego market books about 553 shows a year across 264 venues, with 303 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 45%, ahead of R&B / Hip-Hop at 13%. Fridays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. July is the peak month. Belly Up Tavern is the most-booked venue, with 75 shows on record. The market covers San Diego and 23 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Chula Vista, Encinitas and El Cajon.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in San Diego from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · large draw
3 dates on the calendar · large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts San Diego on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in San Diego that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 264 venues that book live music within 25 miles of San Diego, California, from bar stages to arenas, with about 553 shows in the last twelve months and 303 upcoming.
Friday. In 2026, 174 shows fall on a Friday, against 57 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 45% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by R&B / Hip-Hop at 13%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, with 75 shows on record and 40 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the San Diego data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for San Diego and every other market in the country.