San Clemente venues and what they hold
What it takes to run an event in San Clemente, California: 1 mapped venue, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. John Wayne Airport is 36 km (22 mi) out.
The rooms you can book in San Clemente
San Clemente has a recorded population of 62,627 (2024), inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area of about 13 million people.
What is on the books here: 1 independent event space.
By type that is 1 event space.
Independent event spaces (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agápe | event space | not published | 1.6 km (1 mi) |
Every venue mapped in San Clemente 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.
Flights, time and distance
John Wayne Airport (SNA) is 36 km (22 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
San Clemente keeps Los Angeles time (America/Los_Angeles), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo and Mission Viejo are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if San Clemente has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- SNA
- John Wayne Airport, 36 km (22 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−7
- America/Los_Angeles, in September
- City population, 2024
- 62,627
- 13 million across the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the San Clemente dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one San Clemente 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.
The city is smaller than the market
62,627 people live in San Clemente 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 San Clemente room
A San Clemente programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized San Clemente programme, since no San Clemente 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 San Clemente 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 San Clemente venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- community meetings
Nothing in San Clemente publishes a capacity, so start with the format that scales down: a single room, one track, no exhibition.
- networking mixers
A mixer works in almost any room, which makes it the safe first event in a new city.
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 San Clemente 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 San Clemente hold?
No San Clemente venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 1 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.
Can you run a trade show in San Clemente?
Nothing in the San Clemente dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Laguna Niguel. For a conference without an exhibition, the 1 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for San Clemente?
John Wayne Airport (SNA), about 36 km (22 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 San Clemente 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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2 venues mapped
- Holding an event in Aliso Viejo
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- Holding an event in Mission Viejo
1 venues mapped
- Holding an event in Lake Forest
4 venues mapped
- Holding an event in Irvine
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Running something in San Clemente?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.