Hosting an event in San Mateo
San Mateo, California has 3 mapped venues in this dataset. Here is the shape of them, who they suit, and what an event67 rollout costs once you have picked one.
The rooms you can book in San Mateo
San Mateo has a recorded population of 103,006 (2024), inside the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area of about 4.6 million people.
The mapped inventory is 3 independent event spaces.
By type that is 3 event spaces.
Independent event spaces (3)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society | event space | not published | 14 km (8.8 mi) |
| San Mateo County Event Center | event space | not published | 2.7 km (1.7 mi) |
| The Douglas Beach House | event space | not published | 14 km (8.8 mi) |
Every venue mapped in San Mateo 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.
Travel, time zone and arrival
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) sits 8 km (5 mi) from the centre, close enough that a same-day arrival is realistic for most of your speakers.
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.
At about 8,489 residents per square mile the city is compact enough that a venue and its hotel block are usually walkable, which removes a shuttle line from your budget.
Belmont, Redwood City and South San Francisco are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if San Mateo has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- SFO
- San Francisco International Airport, 8 km (5 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−7
- America/Los_Angeles, in September
- City population, 2024
- 103,006
- 4.6 million across the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area
What to check before you commit
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the San Mateo 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 Mateo 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
103,006 people live in San Mateo itself, but about 4.6 million live in the wider San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
The bill for a San Mateo programme
Suppose 240 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a San Mateo event a mid-sized San Mateo programme, since no San Mateo venue publishes a capacity in open data. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.
- 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 Mateo does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
What sort of event fits here
No capacity is published for any San Mateo 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 Mateo 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
What does an event app cost for a 240-person event in San Mateo?
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 Mateo hold?
No San Mateo venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 3 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 Mateo?
Nothing in the San Mateo 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 Belmont. For a conference without an exhibition, the 3 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for San Mateo?
San Francisco International Airport (SFO), about 8 km (5 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.
What happens under 50 attendees?
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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Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.