Market · Seattle metro · within 25 miles
The Seattle market books about 1,141 shows a year across 516 venues, with 752 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 25%, ahead of Country / Bluegrass at 13%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. October is the peak month. Tractor Tavern is the most-booked venue, with 176 shows on record. The market covers Seattle and 45 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Woodinville, Bellevue and Bremerton.
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 Seattle 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
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Seattle on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Seattle that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 516 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Seattle, Washington, from bar stages to arenas, with about 1,141 shows in the last twelve months and 752 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 381 shows fall on a Saturday, against 90 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 25% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Country / Bluegrass at 13%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Tractor Tavern in Seattle, with 176 shows on record and 71 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Seattle data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Seattle and every other market in the country.