Where to host your conference
Capacity, airports, local time and the shows that come back every year, for 1,558 cities and 6,145 venues across North America. Written for the decision, not for the sale.
Every guide carries a field like this, sized to a room that exists in that city. The dots show what event67 bills, and where the price stops climbing.
The four things that actually decide a host city
Destination marketing is written to make every city sound equally good. It is not. Four questions eliminate most of a shortlist in an afternoon, and only one of them is about the city being nice to visit.
Can the room hold everyone, in one piece
The single number that disqualifies a city fastest. A programme of 900 people needs one room that seats 900, not three rooms that seat 300 — splitting a plenary across overflow screens changes what the event is. Every city guide here leads with the largest stated capacity on record, and says plainly when nothing publishes one.
Can your audience get there in a day
One connection is the practical limit for a two-day event: an attendee who loses a morning to travel will skip the first session, and a speaker who does will miss the rehearsal. Each guide names the nearest major airport and the distance, which is a better filter than a city’s reputation for being easy to reach.
What else is in town that week
A returning trade show moves hotel rates and takes the good rooms twelve months ahead. The recurring-event list on each city page is drawn from Wikidata, so it covers the shows big enough to have an encyclopaedia entry — which is exactly the set large enough to matter to your rates.
Whether the city is the market
For a member or industry event the local audience often decides the city, and city population understates it badly: a place of 300,000 inside a metro of two million has a day-rate audience seven times its own size. Each guide carries both figures where the source publishes them.
Start with a country
Each country page carries its own pricing in the currency you will actually be billed in, then routes down through every state, province and territory. The regions are listed here too, because that tier exists to shorten the walk from this page to a city.
United States
- Regions
- 52
- Cities
- 1,461
- Venues mapped
- 16,058
- Billed in
- USD
Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Puerto Rico · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming
Canada
- Regions
- 13
- Cities
- 144
- Venues mapped
- 2,040
- Billed in
- CAD
Alberta · British Columbia · Manitoba · New Brunswick · Newfoundland and Labrador · Nova Scotia · Ontario · Prince Edward Island · Quebec · Saskatchewan · Yukon
Mexico
- Regions
- 32
- Cities
- 148
- Venues mapped
- 1,564
- Billed in
- MXN
Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · Mexico City · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas
The largest rooms on the continent
Ranked by the capacity the venue itself published. Convention centres are largely absent from the top of this table because open data almost never publishes a capacity for one — that is a property of the sources, not a ranking of the buildings.
| Venue | City | Type | Stated capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estadio Azteca | Tlalpan | stadium | 115,000 |
| Downtown Las Vegas Events Center | Las Vegas | event space | 110,000 |
| Michigan Stadium | Ann Arbor | stadium | 107,601 |
| James A. Beaver Stadium | State College | stadium | 106,572 |
| AT&T Stadium | Arlington | stadium | 105,000 |
| Ohio Stadium | Columbus | stadium | 102,780 |
| Kyle Field | College Station | stadium | 102,733 |
| Neyland Stadium | Knoxville | stadium | 102,455 |
| Tiger Stadium | Baton Rouge | stadium | 102,321 |
| Bryant–Denny Stadium | Tuscaloosa | stadium | 101,821 |
| Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium | Austin | stadium | 95,594 |
| Sanford Stadium | Athens | stadium | 92,746 |
| Rose Bowl | Los Angeles | stadium | 92,542 |
| Cotton Bowl Stadium | Dallas | stadium | 92,100 |
| Ben Hill Griffin Stadium | Gainesville | stadium | 88,548 |
| Jordan–Hare Stadium | Auburn | stadium | 87,451 |
| Memorial Stadium | Lincoln | stadium | 87,091 |
| Centennial Olympic Stadium | Atlanta | stadium | 85,000 |
| Universitary Olympic Stadium | Mexico City | stadium | 83,954 |
| Estadio Banorte | Tlalpan | stadium | 83,264 |
| MetLife Stadium | New York City | stadium | 82,500 |
| Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium | Norman | stadium | 82,112 |
| Memorial Stadium, Clemson | Clemson | stadium | 81,500 |
| Notre Dame Stadium | South Bend | stadium | 80,795 |
The busiest host cities
By population, with the number of venues mapped in each. The full list runs to 1,558 guides and is reachable through the country and region pages.
| City | Region | Population | Venues mapped |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico City | Mexico | 9.2 million | 182 |
| New York City | New York | 8.5 million | 509 |
| Veracruz | Mexico | 8.1 million | 81 |
| Singapore | Singapore | 5.9 million | 6 |
| Los Angeles | California | 3.9 million | 261 |
| San Luis Potosí | Mexico | 2.8 million | 78 |
| Toronto | Ontario | 2.8 million | 254 |
| Brooklyn | New York | 2.7 million | 35 |
| Chicago | Illinois | 2.7 million | 231 |
| Houston | Texas | 2.4 million | 116 |
| Queens | New York | 2.3 million | 59 |
| Tijuana | Baja California | 1.9 million | 12 |
| Iztapalapa | Mexico City | 1.8 million | 9 |
| Montréal | Quebec | 1.8 million | 152 |
| Puebla | Mexico | 1.7 million | 51 |
| Phoenix | Arizona | 1.7 million | 65 |
| León de los Aldama | Guanajuato | 1.6 million | 17 |
| Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 1.6 million | 132 |
| San Antonio | Texas | 1.5 million | 64 |
| Ciudad Juárez | Chihuahua | 1.5 million | 23 |
| Manhattan | New York | 1.5 million | 44 |
| San Diego | California | 1.4 million | 70 |
| Guadalajara | Jalisco | 1.4 million | 26 |
| The Bronx | New York | 1.4 million | 27 |
What is covered, and what is not
19,668 venues are mapped across 1,754 cities and 97 states, provinces and territories. 6,145 venues have enough published detail to carry their own guide; the rest are listed by name on the page for the city they sit in. Coverage is complete, but a page has to be earned.
Everything here is built from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, GeoNames, the US Census Bureau and Statistics Canada — and every page names its own sources. No capacity is estimated. Where a venue publishes nothing, the page says so, because a made-up number is worse than an absent one for anyone actually planning an event.
Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Contains information from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census, used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed and takes no booking commission.
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What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
How do you choose a city to host a conference in?
Four things decide it and the order rarely changes: can the room hold your audience, can your audience get there in a day, can you afford the hotel block on those dates, and is anything else in town that week. Everything else is preference. Each city page here leads with the first two because they are the ones that disqualify a city outright.
How many cities and venues does event67 cover?
19,668 venues across 1,558 cities, 93 states, provinces and territories, and 3 countries. Every venue with enough published detail to be worth reading has its own page; the rest are listed on the page for the city they are in, so coverage is complete even where a separate page would have been thin.
Where does the venue data come from?
OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, GeoNames, the US Census Bureau and Statistics Canada. Every figure on every page traces to one of them and each page names its own sources. Nothing is scraped from prose and no capacity is estimated — where a venue publishes no capacity, the page says so rather than inventing one.
What does event67 cost?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees is free. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Do you take a booking commission from venues?
No. event67 sells a conference app, not venue bookings, and has no commercial relationship with any venue listed here. These pages exist because an organizer choosing a city is doing the same research we had to do, and because we would rather be useful before you buy anything.
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By country
- Conference venues across United States
52 regions, 16,058 venues
- Conference venues across Canada
13 regions, 2,040 venues
- Conference venues across Mexico
32 regions, 1,564 venues
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