Market · San Francisco metro · within 25 miles
The San Francisco market books about 758 shows a year across 438 venues, with 621 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 30%, ahead of R&B / Hip-Hop at 17%. Fridays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 40% of the year. October is the peak month. Yoshi's is the most-booked venue, with 122 shows on record. The market covers San Francisco and 52 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Oakland, Berkeley and Redwood City.
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 Francisco from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
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
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
5 dates on the calendar · large draw
3 dates on the calendar · large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts San Francisco on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in San Francisco that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Nearest markets
Questions
Cultivate tracks 438 venues that book live music within 25 miles of San Francisco, California, from bar stages to arenas, with about 758 shows in the last twelve months and 621 upcoming.
Friday. In 2026, 277 shows fall on a Friday, against 85 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 40% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 30% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by R&B / Hip-Hop at 17%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Yoshi's in Oakland, with 122 shows on record and 49 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the San Francisco data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for San Francisco and every other market in the country.