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MTG Friday Night Magic — TCS Rockets

In 10 days · Jul 10 $15–$20 entry 7626 Miramar Rd Suite 3900, San Di…

Friday Night Magic is where the local MTG community comes alive. Draft packs, battle strangers who become regulars, and trade for that card you've been hunting. All skill levels welcome — bring your own deck or join a draft pod from scratch. Doors open at 6 PM, first packs crack at 6:30.

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MTG Friday Night Magic — Game Empire SD

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MTG Friday Night Magic — Artificer San Diego

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MTG Friday Night Magic — Artificer San Diego

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Synchronicity — FGC Friday Night @ GameSync San Diego (July)

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Synchronicity — FGC Friday Night @ GameSync San Diego (July)

In 10 days · Jul 10 $10 GameSync San Diego, 2860 Main St, …

Synchronicity is GameSync's Friday night fighting game weekly — the longest-running FGC event in San Diego and one of the most established in SoCal. Every Friday at 7 PM: Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Mortal Kombat 1, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and more. The format is a standard open bracket with a $10 entry fee split between venue and prize pool. Casuals start at 5 PM if you want to warm up before the bracket. Synchronicity draws a range from complete beginners trying their first tournament to seasoned regional players who use the weekly as maintenance practice. The atmosphere is competitive but not hostile — the San Diego FGC has built its reputation on being one of the more welcoming scenes in the country. GameSync is a dedicated esports facility with proper setups and a staff that runs the events cleanly. If you play any of the major titles competitively and live in San Diego, this is your weekly. No appointment needed. Show up, sign up, play. Main Street, Logan Heights, San Diego.

San Diego Padres vs Toronto Blue Jays at Petco Park

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San Diego Padres vs Toronto Blue Jays at Petco Park

In 10 days · Jul 10 100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

The Toronto Blue Jays visit Petco Park on July 10 in an interleague series that provides a late-week summer showcase. Toronto is consistently one of the American League's most interesting clubs — a Canadian franchise with a history of developing Latin American talent and building rosters that produce entertaining, high-scoring baseball. An interleague Friday night at Petco against the Blue Jays is the kind of game that delivers the unexpected: styles of play that don't meet during the regular season suddenly in contact with each other for three games in the best park in the National League. Petco Park in mid-July is the stadium at the height of summer: warm, clear, the Gaslamp Quarter in full Friday-night activation before first pitch, the park full of people who have worked the week and arrived ready for three hours of exactly this. See you at the park.

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Dizzy's Jazz — July 10

In 10 days · Jul 10 – Jul 11 Dizzy's Jazz Club, 1717 Morena Blv…

Dizzy's is San Diego's essential small-room jazz venue — a listening room run by musicians for musicians and their audiences, operating out of a community arts space in Bay Park. Dizzy's books the working jazz community: local artists, touring musicians who want a real room, and the occasional special event that brings the entire scene together. This is not a slick jazz supper club with dinner service and a dress code. Dizzy's is a music room where the listening is serious and the drinks are secondary to the performance. The audience comes because they love jazz, which makes the room different from a bar that happens to book jazz occasionally. The performers play differently when the audience is really listening. Shows at Dizzy's are irregular — they book specific performances rather than running a weekly format — which means each show is its own event rather than an episode in a series. The capacity is small, the sight lines are good, and the acoustics are appropriate for the music. Tickets are modest and available in advance at dizzysjazz.com. Dizzy's Jazz Club, 1717 Morena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. Bay Park neighborhood, inside Arias Hall behind the Musicians' Association building. Show times and ticket prices vary by event. Check dizzysjazz.com for the current schedule. Street parking on Morena Blvd. The venue is a listening room — arrive on time, phones down during performance.

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Zine Fest San Diego 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 NTC Park at Liberty Station, 2455 …

Someone made a zine for an audience of twelve. It's going to find you today. NTC Park at Liberty Station on July 11 — 100+ independent artists selling directly, no publishers, no gatekeepers, no algorithms deciding what gets seen. Just the people who drew it, printed it, and stapled it together, sitting behind a table waiting to talk about it. Zine Fest San Diego is one of the best annual gatherings in the city for anyone who makes things or wants to understand the people who do. The range runs from hand-drawn perzines to risograph-printed mini-comics to political art books to poetry collections to things so specific you wonder how they knew. Free to attend. Cash recommended — most artists have card readers but limits. NTC Park is outdoors; dress for the sun. Liberty Station has parking and is accessible from the 8. Budget a few hours: the best tables are the ones you didn't plan to stop at. Artists table next to each other, talk to each other, buy each other's work. The community in this room is the entire point.

Super Smash Bros. Monthly — San Diego July

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Super Smash Bros. Monthly — San Diego July

In 11 days · Jul 11 Level Up SD, 5305 Metro St, San Di…

Level Up SD, 5305 Metro St, San Diego. July 11th. The Super Smash Bros. Monthly in July — the midsummer checkpoint for the San Diego competitive Smash community, where the summer tournament season's lessons arrive in a bracket format that turns individual progress into a measurable result. July Monthlies are the honest accounting of what the spring season taught you. The players who have been grinding since April show up with adapted gameplans, updated character knowledge, and the muscle memory that only comes from repetitions in real matches. The Smash competitive year builds in these monthly increments — the July result either confirms the work or identifies what's still missing. levelupsd.com for registration and event details. July 11th. Level Up SD runs the format correctly: proper bracket management, multiple setups, prize support for the players who perform. The San Diego Smash community shows up for these. Come with your best character and the adaptation you've been building since last month. The bracket will tell you what it told everyone else: where you actually stand.

Gaslamp Artisan Market (GLAM) — July 2026

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Gaslamp Artisan Market (GLAM) — July 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA 921…

The Gaslamp Artisan Market (GLAM) returns to the heart of San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter for July 2026. GLAM is a curated outdoor artisan market featuring independent makers, vintage sellers, small-batch food vendors, and local artists set against the historic backdrop of the Gaslamp. The market draws a mix of regulars and visitors who come specifically to shop small and support San Diego creators — the kind of event where you find a handmade piece you've never seen online and meet the person who made it. Vendors rotate each session so returning visitors find fresh inventory. The Gaslamp Quarter location means easy transit access and proximity to dozens of restaurants and bars for before or after the market. Street parking available; Coaster and trolley stops within walking distance. Free to attend. Check the GLAM Instagram or website for exact location and vendor roster closer to the date — the market moves between a few adjacent blocks depending on the session.

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Barrio Art Crawl San Diego -- July 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 Barrio Logan Art District, Logan A…

Barrio Art Crawl is San Diego's beloved monthly arts walk through the vibrant streets of Barrio Logan, one of the city's most culturally rich neighborhoods. Every second Saturday from noon to 6pm, locals and visitors explore open artist studios, gallery openings, live music performances, rotating exhibits, and the iconic lowrider car displays that line Logan Avenue. Barrio Logan is the heartbeat of San Diego's Chicano art scene, and the Art Crawl brings it to life with dozens of participating galleries, muralists, printmakers, sculptors, and community artists opening their doors for free. The neighborhood's famous Chicano Park murals, the largest outdoor mural collection in the US, serve as the backdrop for an afternoon of cultural discovery. The Art Crawl is free, walkable, and kid-friendly. Expect food vendors, DJs spinning at corner storefronts, and a genuine community atmosphere where artists talk directly with visitors. MTS Blue Line to 25th/Commercial station is two blocks away. Admission: FREE. Location: Logan Avenue, Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA 92113. Second Saturday of every month, 12pm to 6pm.

2026 San Diego Harley Davidson Masters Boxing Championships

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2026 San Diego Harley Davidson Masters Boxing Championships

In 11 days · Jul 11 – Jul 12 4645 Morena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92…

Amateur boxing usually ends sometime in your thirties. Masters boxing assumes that premise is wrong. The 2026 San Diego Harley Davidson Masters Boxing Championships brings together competitive boxers aged 40 and older for two days of sanctioned USA Boxing competition. The field spans novice divisions (zero to ten bouts) and open divisions, men and women, from flyweight to heavyweight — structured enough to produce genuinely competitive matchups across every category. The venue is a motorcycle dealership on Morena Boulevard. This turns out to be exactly right. The crowd is blue-collar in the best sense — people who have been around boxing long enough to know what they're watching. Weigh-ins start at 8am. Doors open at 11am. Bouts begin at noon on Saturday and Sunday. Masters boxing is not nostalgia. The people training for this are serious athletes in their forties, fifties, and sixties who never stopped coming to the gym. The footwork is smarter. The combinations are more deliberate. There is a quality to a boxer who has thirty years of accumulated ring intelligence behind every decision — something you do not see in the twenty-year-olds. Free optional meet-and-greet Friday July 10, 4–6pm. Competition July 11–12, 2026. San Diego Harley Davidson, 4645 Morena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92117. USA Boxing sanctioned. Spectators welcome.

Street Fighter 6 Monthly Ranking Battle — July 2026

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Street Fighter 6 Monthly Ranking Battle — July 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 $10 GameSync San Diego, 2860 Main St, …

The Street Fighter 6 Monthly Ranking Battle at GameSync San Diego continues in July with the same format that has made this one of the most consistent FGC events on the San Diego calendar. The monthly cadence matters for competitive development — regular bracket play against the same core of players over time is how you actually improve, and the ranking format adds stakes that casual play does not have. Street Fighter 6 has rebuilt competitive interest in the franchise at a level not seen since SF4, and the local San Diego scene has grown accordingly. The July edition falls between the June opener and the August bracket, which typically represents the strongest month for attendance as summer schedules settle in and players who have been traveling return to their local circuits. Entry $10. GameSync on Main Street in San Diego. Casuals from 5 PM, check-in at 6 PM, brackets begin at 7 PM. Open to all skill levels. The ranking series rewards consistent attendance — showing up once is fine, but showing up every month is the actual game.

Jim Rao Fan Club Annual Punk Rock Matinee

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Jim Rao Fan Club Annual Punk Rock Matinee

In 11 days · Jul 11 15.0 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 9…

Every year the Jim Rao Fan Club takes over the Casbah for an all-afternoon marathon of San Diego's underground punk and hardcore scene. The 2026 edition on July 11 runs from 2:30 PM until late, with ten bands: The Grim, Ministry of Truth, Infirmities, Total Massacre, One Square Mile, Celebrity Stalker, VFMS, Santa Claus, Sorry Dogs, and Kid Galahad and the Eternals. This is not a showcase for bands angling for a record deal. This is the San Diego punk scene gathering because it wants to -- a room where everyone knows half the bands because they've been in some of them, where the afternoon light through the Casbah's windows gives way to the controlled chaos that ten bands into a punk afternoon reliably produces. Tickets are . Doors open at 2 PM, show starts at 2:30. The Casbah keeps it tight: small capacity, good sound, no pretense. The Jim Rao Fan Club matinee is one of those San Diego traditions that perpetuates itself by being exactly what it is every year -- loud, local, and worth a Saturday afternoon.

San Diego Wave FC Home Match — July 11 at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego Wave FC Home Match — July 11 at Snapdragon Stadium

In 11 days · Jul 11 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

San Diego Wave FC host their July 11 NWSL home match at Snapdragon Stadium — a mid-July Saturday when the NWSL season is deep enough that the playoff picture is beginning to form and every home result carries additional meaning. The Wave are a genuine NWSL championship contender in any season they assemble their full roster at Snapdragon, and July is when the club identifies who it is going to be for the run-in. The home crowd in July is the most sophisticated it gets during the year: regulars who have attended every home match, traveling supporters from the opponent's market, and the San Diego sports audience who discovered professional women's football and decided to keep coming. Snapdragon in July under lights on a Saturday is one of the better evenings professional soccer offers anywhere in California. The San Diego Wave supporter community — NWSL's most passionate West Coast fan base — fills the south supporter section at Snapdragon and has maintained a level of energy that visiting clubs consistently cite as one of the louder environments in the league. The Wave have built a genuine fan identity in San Diego in a short time. Snapdragon Stadium, 9449 Friars Rd. Green Line trolley to Aztec station. On-site parking available. The supporter section is worth sitting near.

San Diego Summer Movies in the Park 2026

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San Diego Summer Movies in the Park 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 Free Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy,…

They believed every San Diego neighborhood deserved at least one summer evening where you could watch a movie outside, under the actual sky, for free, with your neighbors. The Summer Movies in the Park series has been making that case every year, rotating through parks across the city from July through October. The format is the point: find your neighborhood screening, bring a blanket, show up before dark, and watch something good under the stars. No tickets. No reserved seats. No venue with its own dress code. Just the park becoming a theater for the night, and everyone there because they wanted to be somewhere good on a summer evening. The lineup covers enough ground that there's usually something worth the trip — a recent release, a classic, something the kids haven't seen yet. The rotating locations mean every neighborhood gets a turn, which is a better design than a single fixed venue that only some parts of the city can easily reach. Find the closest screening, put it on the calendar, and show up when the one that fits runs. Free to attend. No registration required. Rotating locations throughout San Diego County. Saturday evenings through October 31. Full schedule at summermoviesinthepark.com.

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Michael McDonald at Humphreys

In 11 days · Jul 11 TBA Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 224…

Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Dr, San Diego. July 12th. Michael McDonald at Humphreys — which is the specific combination of artist, venue, and summer evening that makes Shelter Island the best outdoor concert experience in San Diego. Humphreys is 1,400 seats and a waterfront. The audience sits ten feet from the bay. The stage is positioned so the sound carries toward the water and the water reflects back a warmth that no inland venue produces. On a July night, with McDonald's voice — one of the most distinctive instruments in popular music — filling that air, the experience is not a concert so much as a specific version of a San Diego summer evening made complete. "What a Fool Believes." "Takin' It to the Streets." "I Keep Forgettin'." The Doobie Brothers catalog alongside the solo work and the Steely Dan recordings — all of it live, waterside, at 1,400 seats. humphreysconcerts.com for availability. The reserved seating at Humphreys is close enough to matter. July 12th. Be there.

San Diego Symphony — Summer at the Rady Shell 2026

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San Diego Symphony — Summer at the Rady Shell 2026

In 11 days · Jul 11 $25+ 1 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

There is a specific thing that happens at the Rady Shell when the sun drops below the horizon and the San Diego Bay goes dark behind the stage: the acoustic design — which was years in the making — suddenly makes complete sense. The sound fills the amphitheater, travels toward the water, and returns slightly changed. It is one of the few performance spaces in the world where the setting is as much of the experience as what's being performed. The San Diego Symphony runs its summer season at the Rady Shell from June through October. The programming moves across classical, jazz, film scores, and pop orchestral — the kind of range that keeps the audience from calcifying. The outdoor nature of the venue means every night is different, depending on the breeze off the water and who showed up. The lawn section allows picnic setups, which is how most of the regulars attend. A blanket, a bottle of wine, and whatever the orchestra is playing that evening — the bay handles the rest. 1 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101. Ticketed; pricing varies by program. Season runs June through October. Check sandiegosymphony.org for schedule.

Made in Abyss Season 3 — Premiere Watch Party San Diego

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Made in Abyss Season 3 — Premiere Watch Party San Diego

In 12 days · Jul 12 Nerd Bar San Diego, 2847 Universit…

Nerd Bar San Diego, 2847 University Ave, San Diego. July 12th. Made in Abyss Season 3 premieres and Nerd Bar opens for the watch party — the gathering for the community that has been in the Abyss since Season 1 and has spent the intervening years in a specific combination of anticipation and dread for what comes next. Made in Abyss is the anime that builds its audience's trust only to use it against them. The world is beautiful. The characters are beloved. The show understands exactly what it is doing with both. Season 3 arrives with all of that understanding loaded into the room — which means the watch party at Nerd Bar is the place to be when it starts, because the moments this show produces are better witnessed collectively than alone in front of a screen. nerdbarsd.com for event details and reservation. July 12th in North Park. Come before the premiere — the conversation about what happened in Season 2, what's been theorized since, and what the community is quietly terrified of seeing resolved is part of the evening. The bar is there. The show is coming. Be in the room when the Abyss gets deeper.

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MTG Commander Night at OB Brewery

In 12 days · Jul 12 5041 Newport Ave, San Diego, CA 92…

Commander Magic: The Gathering was designed to be played with friends, not optimized to death. The format that lets you use nearly any card ever printed forces four-player negotiation and rewards the person who built the most interesting deck over the person who built the most efficient one. San Diego's casual Commander night runs every Sunday at Ocean Beach Brewing Company — a neighborhood brewery on Newport Avenue, not a game store, which is the whole point. Loaner decks available if you want to try before committing to building your own. All skill levels, no tournament pressure, no entry fee. Just four people sitting around a table deciding whose threat to answer first, with a beer in hand. July 12, 2026 at Ocean Beach Brewing Co., 5041 Newport Ave, San Diego. Runs 2pm to 9pm. Free to attend. Shows up every week after that too.

Spreckels Organ Free Sunday Concerts — Balboa Park

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Spreckels Organ Free Sunday Concerts — Balboa Park

In 12 days · Jul 12 Free Spreckels Organ Pavilion, 2211 Pan…

They believed the instrument should be heard, and that it was too important to sit behind a ticket price. When San Diego accepted the Spreckels Organ as a gift in 1914 and built the pavilion in Balboa Park, that belief was written into the terms — free Sunday concerts, permanent, as long as the city stands. More than a hundred years later, the Sunday concerts are still running. The organ has 4,965 pipes. The largest are twenty feet long. The sound it produces under an open sky can't be replicated by a recording — it isn't just loud, it has a physical presence you feel in your chest from fifty feet away. The Sunday afternoon program runs one hour, performed by San Diego organists and visiting musicians from around the world, each bringing their own program to an instrument that rewards virtuosity. Come early for a seat in the pavilion. The crowd is a cross-section of the park — regulars who have been coming for decades, families who wandered over from the zoo, first-timers who stopped because the sound reached them before they knew what it was. That range of people, sharing the same hour, is part of what makes this feel less like an event and more like a fact about Sunday in San Diego. Free. No tickets. Every Sunday, 2–3 PM. Spreckels Organ Pavilion, 2211 Pan American Rd E, Balboa Park, San Diego.

Concerts by the Sea — Free Summer Concert Series at La Jolla Cove

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Concerts by the Sea — Free Summer Concert Series at La Jolla Cove

In 12 days · Jul 12 1100 Coast Blvd, La Jolla, CA 92037

Since 1984, the Kiwanis Club of La Jolla has been throwing free Sunday afternoon concerts at Scripps Park on the cliffs above La Jolla Cove. Forty years of this, every summer. The Pacific behind the stage. The grass in front of it. No seats to reserve, no ticket required. The 2026 series runs four Sundays: July 12, July 19, July 26, and August 2, from 3:30 to 5:30pm. Each show features live music — jazz, big band, Latin, folk — rotating styles week to week. The crowd brings blankets and beach chairs. Dogs are welcome. Children run. Grandparents sit and sway. There is nothing pretentious about this. It is not curated. It is a neighborhood deciding, year after year, that Sunday afternoons in summer should sound like something. Scripps Park is a short walk from the main La Jolla village. Arrive early on warm Sundays — the grass fills quickly. Parking in the surrounding streets or the pay lots on Prospect Street. Free admission. No registration. Just show up.

Hyunjin's Paint n Sip -- SKZ N SIP San Diego (21+)

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Hyunjin's Paint n Sip -- SKZ N SIP San Diego (21+)

In 12 days · Jul 12 2770 Historic Decatur Rd Barracks …

The fan community decided it wanted to paint together. SKZ N SIP organized it: a 21+ Stray Kids paint-and-sip at The Hot Spot Studios in Liberty Station on July 12, honoring Hyunjin with a SKZ-inspired landscape session while the drinks flow. The organizer built an event around what the community actually does -- paint nights, fan gatherings, the in-person moments that don't exist at concerts. Two drink tickets and one lucky draw ticket come with entry. The grand prize raffle includes an ELLE April 2026 (Hyunjin cover), an NCT Wishbook, and surprise items. A limited-edition Jiniret-themed apron was available for pre-order specifically for this event. The Hot Spot Studios at Liberty Station is a dedicated art and craft studio -- actual instruction, actual supplies, and a setting that turns a fandom gathering into something you can hang on the wall. 21+ only. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options available. Limited spots; registration through the SKZ N SIP Carrd page at skznsip.carrd.co.

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Summer Arts Fest at Liberty Station

In 12 days · Jul 12 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 9…

Arts District Liberty Station believed that a free outdoor concert series featuring actual San Diego musicians -- not corporate bookings, not national touring acts, not a sponsored stage -- could become the neighborhood ritual that marks the summer. The North Promenade is where they tested that belief. Three months, second Saturdays, 4 to 7pm, no ticket required. The concert series runs July through September. Each month brings a different local artist: Whitney Shay opens July with her blues-soul catalog, Kogee Soul Reprise led by vocalist Kori Gillis takes August, and Bambu Sound Exchange -- an analogue dance music collective -- closes out September. Three genuinely different feels across three months. The programming is not arbitrary. Liberty Station itself matters. The former Naval Training Center was converted into a walkable arts district -- galleries, studios, restaurants, and performance space that still feels like a neighborhood rather than a development. The North Promenade is the open plaza at the center of it. Summer concerts in this space feel earned, not produced. Show up when you want, stay as long as you want. Bring kids or a dog. Grab food from one of the nearby restaurants before or after. The crowd is Liberty Station regulars, NTC Park families, and Point Loma locals who have made this their July-through-September tradition. Address: 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 92106. Free admission. More at artsdistrictlibertystation.org.

Movies on the Beach - Hotel del Coronado (Summer 2026)

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Movies on the Beach - Hotel del Coronado (Summer 2026)

In 12 days · Jul 12 Hotel del Coronado, 1500 Orange Av…

The Hotel del Coronado has been doing this since before outdoor cinema was a trend: movies on the beach, on actual sand, with the Pacific in the peripheral vision and private bonfires for the people who plan ahead. Summer 2026 lineup runs every Sunday through late October. Films skew toward crowd pleasers with cultural weight: Top Gun Maverick on the beach where it was filmed, Grease on sand under the same sky every drive-in scene was reaching for, Raiders of the Lost Ark with the ocean wind doing what it does to outdoor audio. The setting is the point. The movie is the occasion. Screenings start at 7:30pm. Reserve a bonfire if you want one. The beach fills earlier than you expect.

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