🏙 Towns & cities

Palo Alto

city in Santa Clara County, California, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 37.4167, -122.1333

Palo Alto is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. 1 video game is also set here.

1 production was filmed at 1 place inside Palo Alto rather than at Palo Alto itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Filming for the pilot of Silicon Valley began on March 12, 2013, in Palo Alto, California.”

Silicon Valley (2014–) · Wikipedia

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Palo Alto as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Silicon Valley 2014–

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Palo Alto

1 production shot at 1 place inside Palo Alto, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Palo Alto itself.

The Wedding Planner Stanford University per Wikipedia 2001

🏛 Landmarks & buildings

Stanford University

🇺🇸 United States

private research university in Stanford, California, USA

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Watch Dogs 2

Drawn from this place

Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Palo Alto as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

Shrek 2001

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Palo Alto?

2 productions are recorded as filmed in Palo Alto, 1 of them at places inside it, including Silicon Valley (2014–). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Palo Alto?

Silicon Valley (2014–), covered by 33 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Palo Alto?

Palo Alto is in the United States, at 37.4167, -122.1333.

What other filming locations are near Palo Alto?

San Francisco, San Francisco Zoo, San Jose, San Fierro and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Nader Moussa, CC BY-SA 3.0.