Towns & cities

San Diego County

county in California, United States

United States · 33.0200, -116.7700

San Diego County is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in San Diego County, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 17 more.

248 productions were filmed at 65 places inside San Diego County rather than at San Diego County itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

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Movies filmed in San Diego County

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea 2024
Thane of East County 2017
Sweet Taste of Souls 2020

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names San Diego County as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in San Diego County

248 productions shot at 65 places inside San Diego County, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against San Diego County itself.

Citizen Kane San Diego 1941
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones San Diego per Wikipedia 2002
Some Like It Hot San Diego 1959
Spider-Man: Homecoming San Diego per Wikipedia 2017
Scarface San Diego per Wikipedia 1983
Transformers San Diego 2007
The Aviator San Diego 2004
The Lost World: Jurassic Park San Diego 1997
Apollo 13 San Diego 1995
Top Gun San Diego 1986
Babel San Diego 2006
Diamonds Are Forever Oceanside per Wikipedia 1971
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen San Diego 2009
Pearl Harbor San Diego 2001
Bruce Almighty San Diego 2003
Casino San Diego 1995
Gattaca San Diego 1997
Me at the zoo San Diego per Wikipedia 2005
One Battle After Another San Diego per Wikipedia 2025
Star Trek: The Motion Picture University of San Diego per Wikipedia 1979
True Lies San Diego 1994
Almost Famous San Diego 2000
The Blue Lagoon San Diego per Wikipedia 1980
The Hunt for Red October San Diego 1990
Top Gun: Maverick San Diego per Wikipedia 2022
A Few Good Men Marine Corps Air Station Miramar per Wikipedia 1992
Demolition Man San Diego 1993
Green Lantern San Diego 2011
The Rock Escondido per Wikipedia 1996
Traffic San Diego 2000
Kingsman: The Golden Circle San Diego per Wikipedia 2017
Sideways San Diego 2004
Paranormal Activity San Diego 2007
The Scorpion King San Diego 2002
Last Action Hero San Diego 1993
The Heirs San Diego 2013–
Battleship San Diego 2012
The Killing Fields San Diego per Wikipedia 1984
Tora! Tora! Tora! San Diego 1970
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea San Diego per Wikipedia 1954
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy San Diego 2004
Clueless Valley Center per Wikipedia 1995
Lethal Weapon 4 San Diego 1998
Koyaanisqatsi San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station per Wikipedia 1982
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! San Diego 1988
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World San Diego 1963
The Sum of All Fears San Diego 2002
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids San Diego 1989
Hot Shots! San Diego 1991
Battle: Los Angeles San Diego per Wikipedia 2011
Deep Blue Sea San Diego 1999
Patriot Games San Diego 1992
Heartbreak Ridge San Diego 1986
Paul San Diego per Wikipedia 2011
The Last Boy Scout San Diego 1991
Firefox San Diego 1982
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues San Diego 2013
K-9 San Diego 1989
Stealth San Diego 2005
The Last Ship San Diego 2014–2018

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 188, each with the place inside San Diego County it was shot at:

The Young Lions San Diego
The Andromeda Strain Ocotillo Wells
Bandits San Diego
The Cell San Diego
Act of Valor San Diego
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home San Diego
On the Beach San Diego
The Candidate San Diego
The Grifters San Diego
Airport '77 San Diego
Get the Gringo San Diego
Operation Petticoat San Diego
By the Sea San Diego
Role Models San Diego
Sands of Iwo Jima San Diego
Wayne's World 2 San Diego
Ice Station Zebra San Diego
Rent San Diego
Midway San Diego
Sahara Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Blackfish San Diego
Seven Days in May San Diego
The Infiltrator San Diego
The Tarnished Angels San Diego
Hardcore San Diego
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel San Diego
The Spirit of St. Louis San Diego
Flirting with Disaster San Diego
Mr. Jones San Diego
Test Pilot San Diego International Airport
Deadliest Catch San Diego
Freaky Friday San Diego
Here Comes the Navy Naval Base San Diego
Renegade San Diego
Antwone Fisher San Diego
Damnation Alley San Diego
El Norte San Diego
Run Silent, Run Deep San Diego
Species III San Diego
The Desert Rats San Diego
The Stunt Man San Diego
Wake Island San Diego
$ Hotel del Coronado
A Force of One San Diego
In Harm's Way San Diego
Navy SEALs San Diego
The Devil at 4 O'Clock Fallbrook
The Rains Came San Diego
The Squaw Man Palomar Observatory
Zorro Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
Almost Heroes San Diego
Bread and Roses San Diego
Flying Leathernecks Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Last Days in the Desert Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Raise the Titanic San Diego
Real Genius San Diego
Halls of Montezuma Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Little Nikita San Diego
Mayday San Diego
My Blue Heaven San Diego
Flight of the Intruder San Diego
Hart to Hart San Diego
It's a Wonderful World San Diego
Tess of the Storm Country Del Mar
The Monkees San Diego
Top Dog San Diego
Animal Kingdom Oceanside
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? San Diego
Scavenger Hunt San Diego
Silk Stalkings San Diego
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic San Diego Zoo
Cannery Row San Diego
Tiger Shark San Diego
Borderline San Diego
Hellcats of the Navy Naval Base San Diego
Key to the City Borrego Springs
Like Father Like Son San Diego
Love San Diego
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze San Diego
Never on Tuesday San Diego
Phantom San Diego
Pitch San Diego
The Dragon Painter Coronado
The Patchwork Girl of Oz San Diego
Who'll Stop the Rain San Diego
8 Seconds San Diego
Battle Cry Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Blowback San Diego
Dive Bomber San Diego
Fashion House San Diego
Firestarter: Rekindled San Diego
In God We Tru$t San Diego
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. San Diego
Mr. Wrong San Diego
Sailor Beware San Diego
Simon & Simon San Diego
Tentacles San Diego
Texas Across the River San Diego
The Big Mouth San Diego
The Fighting Seabees San Diego
The Married Virgin Hotel del Coronado
Till the End of Time San Diego
To the Shores of Tripoli Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
What Price Glory Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Flight Command San Diego
Hell Divers San Diego
Loving Couples San Diego
One West Waikiki San Diego
The Dove Del Mar
Wing and a Prayer San Diego
Alien Terror San Diego
Cold Heaven La Jolla
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
L.A. Heat San Diego
Task Force San Diego
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Shelter Island
The Devil and Max Devlin San Diego
The Ex List San Diego
Tiger Cruise San Diego
An American Romance San Diego
My Husband's Wives San Diego
National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 San Diego
Riley San Diego
A Ticklish Affair Coronado
Blinky Imperial Beach
Resolution San Diego
Aquarium of the Dead San Diego
As Good as Dead San Diego
Her Wild Oat Hotel del Coronado
The Buzzard's Shadow San Diego
The Jennie Project Balboa Park
The Last Ride San Diego
Wicked, Wicked Hotel del Coronado
16-Love San Diego
Chubasco San Diego
Night Train to Terror San Diego
Only God Knows San Diego
Red Line Scripps Ranch
Slaughterhouse San Ysidro
The Mating Call San Diego
The Outsider Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
Two Tickets to Paradise San Diego
Yours for the Asking Coronado
Borrego Borrego Springs
Crowned and Dangerous San Diego
Cry Wilderness San Diego
Galloping On Julian
Hacksaw San Diego
Murder and Cocktails Little Italy
Skid Marks San Diego
The Arrival San Diego
A Place for Annie San Diego
A Rumor of War Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence San Diego
Bang Bang San Diego
Carving a Life Julian
Continuance San Diego
Daydream Hotel Hotel del Coronado
Down in San Diego San Diego
Dying Room Only Borrego Springs
Eternity: The Movie San Diego
Everybody Dies by the End San Diego
Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders Escondido
Frost: Portrait of a Vampire San Diego
Full Cycle: A World Odyssey San Diego
Kung Fu Ghost San Diego
Love All You Have Left Pacific Beach
Mighty Oak San Diego
Sade Live San Diego
Satan's Blade Julian
The Kid from Left Field San Diego Stadium
The Samuel Project San Diego
Touch Downtown San Diego
We All Die Alone San Diego
Daisy Belle San Diego
Deviant San Diego
Libertyville San Diego
Our Barrio Barrio Logan
Pilots North San Diego
Red Light Teachers San Diego
Sincerely Saul San Diego
Sunset Limousine San Diego
The Buildout Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
The Evil Rises San Diego
The Heiress Lethal Ocean Beach
The Last Butterflies Oceanside
The Playground San Diego
The Wedding Hustler San Diego

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in San Diego County?

268 productions are recorded as filmed in San Diego County, 248 of them at places inside it, including Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2024), Thane of East County (2017) and Sweet Taste of Souls (2020). 17 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in San Diego County?

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2024), covered by 3 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Diego County?

San Diego County is in the United States. Its coordinates are 33.0200, -116.7700.

What other filming locations are near San Diego County?

Ramona (10 km west), Julian (18 km east), Lakeside (23 km south-west), Descanso (24 km south-east) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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, CC BY-SA 2.0.