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San Diego

seat of San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California

🇺🇸 United States · 32.7150, -117.1625

San Diego is recorded as a filming location for 60 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in San Diego, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 8 more.

4 productions were filmed at 23 places inside San Diego rather than at San Diego itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“In preparation for filming, Yorktown was berthed at NAS North Island in San Diego to load all the aircraft, maintenance, and film crew prior to sailing to Hawaii.”
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in San Diego

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names San Diego 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

4 productions shot at 23 places inside San Diego, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against San Diego itself.

11 more places are inside San Diego — see them on the map.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in San Diego, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in San Diego?

72 productions are recorded as filmed in San Diego, 4 of them at places inside it, including Citizen Kane (1941), Some Like It Hot (1959) and Transformers (2007). 8 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?

Citizen Kane (1941), covered by 84 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Diego?

San Diego is in the United States, at 32.7150, -117.1625.

What other filming locations are near San Diego?

Rosarito, Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo, Coronado 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 Boatguy619, CC BY-SA 4.0.