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Balboa Theatre

Balboa Theatre is a theatre in San Diego, California. It seats a stated 1,339. Here is what the public record holds on it, and what an event67 rollout would cost in a room this size.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
1,339
people, as published
Opened
1924
102 years old
From SAN
4 km (2.5 mi)
San Diego International Airport
From the centre
0.4 km (0.2 mi)
of San Diego

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

About this venue

It stands at 854 Fourth Avenue, right in the centre of San Diego.

Balboa Theatre was opened in 1924 and owned by County of San Diego, which puts it at 102 years old.

The stated 1,339 is ballroom scale: a plenary, a gala dinner, or two tracks with a wall between them.

Address
854 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Owner
County of San Diego
Coordinates
32.7139, -117.1606
Classified as
theatre

Travel to Balboa Theatre

4 km (2.5 mi) to San Diego International Airport (SAN). At that distance the transfer is not a planning problem, which is rarer than it sounds.

A central address is worth more than it looks: no shuttle, no parking plan, and evening sessions that people actually stay for.

San Diego has 70 venues mapped in total and a population of 1,404,452. The San Diego guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

What fits in this room

A fixed-seat house suits a single-track programme: keynotes, panels, award ceremonies and film. It does not suit a trade floor, banqueting or anything that needs the seats to move, so pair it with a nearby function room if you need both.

  • award ceremonies

    Fixed seating, sightlines and a lighting rig are the hard parts, and they are already here.

  • product launches

    A single-track room with a real stage is the right shape for a launch.

  • multi-track conferences

    Works as a plenary house with breakouts booked elsewhere in the city.

A worked example for Balboa Theatre

A Balboa Theatre programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to the stated capacity of Balboa Theatre — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Balboa Theatre, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

If this one is booked

4 other venues in San Diego have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 8 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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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.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Balboa Theatre hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 1,339 for Balboa Theatre. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

Where is Balboa Theatre?

854 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101. It is 0.4 km (0.2 mi) from the centre of San Diego. The nearest major airport is San Diego International Airport (SAN), about 4 km (2.5 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Balboa Theatre?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Balboa Theatre. The rate 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.

Is event67 affiliated with Balboa Theatre?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Balboa Theatre is booked?

San Diego Civic Theatre (2,967), Copley Symphony Hall (2,248) and Old Globe Theater (580) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 70 venues in total are mapped in San Diego.

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