Market · Washington metro · within 25 miles
The Washington market books about 1,336 shows a year across 1,630 venues, with 1,265 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 34%, ahead of Jazz / Blues at 15%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 47% of the year. August is the peak month. Union Stage is the most-booked venue, with 113 shows on record. The market covers Washington and 80 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Silver Spring, Alexandria and Columbia.
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 Washington from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Washington on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Washington that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 1,630 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Washington, DC, from bar stages to arenas, with about 1,336 shows in the last twelve months and 1,265 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 591 shows fall on a Saturday, against 143 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 47% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 34% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Jazz / Blues at 15%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Union Stage in Washington, with 113 shows on record and 61 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Washington data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Washington and every other market in the country.