Pomona: venues, access and capacity
What it takes to run an event in Pomona, California: 8 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. Los Angeles International Airport is 62 km (39 mi) out.
Pomona venue landscape
Pomona has a recorded population of 147,966 (2024), inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area of about 13 million people.
What is on the books here: 1 exhibition or convention hall, 1 dedicated conference and function space, 1 arena or stadium, 3 theatres and concert halls and 2 independent event spaces.
By type that is 2 concert halls, 2 event spaces, 1 theatre and 1 fairground, plus a longer tail below.
Exhibition and convention halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairplex | fairground | not published | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
Conference and function space (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheriton Fairplex Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 3.1 km (1.9 mi) |
Arenas and stadiums (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomona Raceway | stadium | not published | 4.2 km (2.6 mi) |
Theatres and concert halls (3)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridges Hall of Music | concert hall | not published | 5.9 km (3.7 mi) |
| Fox Theater Pomona | theatre | not published | 0.2 km (0.1 mi) |
| The Glass House Concert Hall | concert hall | not published | 0.3 km (0.2 mi) |
Independent event spaces (2)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridges Auditorium | event space | not published | 6 km (3.7 mi) |
| Pomona Fox Theater | event space | not published | 0.2 km (0.1 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Pomona appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Exhibition-scale rooms in Pomona
One venue in Pomona is classified as exhibition or convention space.
- Fairplexsize not published
Capacities are the figure the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published. They are usually the seated maximum, and the same room in banquet or reception layout can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want before you plan around a number.
Travel, time zone and arrival
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is 62 km (39 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Local time is Los Angeles time (America/Los_Angeles) — set every session time in the app to that zone and let attendees' phones do the conversion.
Diamond Bar, Chino Hills and Chino are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Pomona has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- LAX
- Los Angeles International Airport, 62 km (39 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−7
- America/Los_Angeles, in September
- City population, 2024
- 147,966
- 13 million across the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Worth knowing before you sign
No published capacities
Not one Pomona venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
Arrival is a half-day
62 km (39 mi) from LAX means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
The city is smaller than the market
147,966 people live in Pomona itself, but about 13 million live in the wider Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
Pricing this against a real Pomona room
A Pomona programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Pomona programme, since no Pomona venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Pomona does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Matching the room to the format
No capacity is published for any Pomona venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- trade shows and exhibitions
1 exhibition or convention hall means a booth plan is possible in Pomona without renting a marquee.
- multi-track conferences
The exhibition space here doubles as plenary space when the floor is cleared.
- association annual meetings
An association meeting needs one big room, several small ones and a hotel block, which is the combination Pomona is set up for.
- award ceremonies
3 fixed-seat houses give you a stage, lighting and sightlines without building any of it.
- training days and workshops
1 purpose-built function space is the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
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
Price a Pomona event at 240 attendees — what is the total?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price 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.
How big an event can Pomona hold?
No Pomona venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 8 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Does Pomona have a convention centre?
Yes — 1 venue is classified as exhibition or convention space in Pomona, including Fairplex. Exhibition halls are booked by floor area rather than by seat, so ask for the hall sheet with column spacing and load-in access rather than a capacity number.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Pomona?
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), about 62 km (39 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Los_Angeles; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Is there a free tier for a small Pomona event?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. 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.
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