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Karaoke inSan Diego
Convoy Street sings to 4am on a weekend, and the Gaslamp will hand you a mic with no booking at all. San Diego splits its karaoke between a corridor of private rooms in Kearny Mesa and a walkable strip of open-mic bars downtown, and the night mostly plans itself from there.
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This guide walks the standouts. The full San Diego map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
Convoy Street is the city's karaoke corridor: five confirmed venues along it, mostly private rooms rented by the hour, two of them sharing a single address. The late hours live here too — several rooms run to 4am on Friday and Saturday, hours nothing downtown keeps.
The Gaslamp Quarter works the other way: open-mic bars where you sign up and sing to the room, walkable end to end, most finishing at 1 or 2am. Beyond the two districts sits a scattering of neighbourhood bars, including one that runs karaoke every night of the week and has done for a long time.
4 confirmed venues
Convoy Street: rooms by the hour
Kearny Mesa's Asian food corridor doubles as the city's karaoke district. All of these are within about a mile of each other.
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HIVE
4428 Convoy St · Kearny MesaThirteen renovated private rooms with food and drink service, open daily from 4pm. The biggest room count on the street and the earliest opening.
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Bobos / Mu Music Studio
4698 Convoy St · Kearny MesaOpen daily from 5pm, to 2am most nights and 4am on Friday and Saturday. Craft beer attached, which is not a common combination here.
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Jin Music Studios
4690 Convoy St · Kearny MesaRooms nightly from 6pm — 3am on Thursday, 4am Friday and Saturday, and a late 2:30am close on Sunday.
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Carriage House
4690 Convoy St, Ste 113 · Kearny MesaThe open-mic exception on Convoy, and it shares a building with Jin. Karaoke every night from 9pm to 2am.
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4 confirmed venues
Downtown and the neighbourhoods
Sign-up-and-sing bars, no booking, generally no cover. The Gaslamp cluster is walkable end to end.
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The Lamplighter
817 W Washington St · Mission HillsKaraoke nightly, 9pm to 2am. The city's standing answer, and the one to go to when nothing has been planned.
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Werewolf
627 Fourth Ave · Gaslamp QuarterSeven nights a week, 9pm to 1am, in the middle of the Gaslamp. Finishes an hour earlier than most, which some nights is a mercy.
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Gaslamplighter
536 Market St · Gaslamp QuarterTuesday through Sunday, doors at 6:30pm and karaoke from 9pm to 2am. Closed Mondays — the one gap in the downtown week.
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Redwing Bar & Grill
4012 30th St · North ParkSix nights, starting at 7pm — early by San Diego standards. Thursdays it follows the trivia night rather than replacing it.
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50 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 66 karaoke spots in and around San Diego — this guide writes up 16. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
Where the late hours are
San Diego closes earlier than most cities its size, and downtown karaoke reflects that — Werewolf stops at 1am, the Gaslamplighter and the Lamplighter at 2am.
Convoy Street is the exception. Bobos and Jin Music Studios both run to 4am on Friday and Saturday, and Jin holds a 2:30am close on Sundays. If the night needs to keep going past two, it needs to go to Kearny Mesa.
The rest of the week
Away from the two districts, San Diego karaoke is a one-to-three-nights-a-week bar circuit spread across the mesas.
JT's Pub & Grill on Mission Gorge runs Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm — five nights, without being one of the everyday rooms. Peter D's on Clairemont Mesa does Thursday to Saturday, 9pm to 1:30am. Flicks on University Avenue takes Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and Pal Joey's on Waring Road runs Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Two are worth knowing for being unlike the rest: Nha Trang on Euclid is a Vietnamese karaoke bar open from 3pm Thursday through Sunday, and Chiquibaby's on Dewey Street runs karaoke nights midweek and a baile karaoke on Saturdays.
Questions
Where is the karaoke district in San Diego?
Convoy Street in Kearny Mesa. Five confirmed karaoke venues sit along it, mostly private rooms rented by the hour — HIVE, Bobos, Jin Music Studios, Carriage House and Melody Karaoke — with Jin and Carriage House sharing an address at 4690. The Gaslamp Quarter downtown is the second cluster, and it is open-mic rather than rooms.
How late does karaoke go in San Diego?
Downtown, 1 to 2am. On Convoy Street, Bobos and Jin Music Studios both run to 4am on Friday and Saturday, which is the latest we have confirmed in the city.
Where can I do karaoke in San Diego tonight?
The Lamplighter in Mission Hills runs karaoke nightly from 9pm, as does Werewolf in the Gaslamp Quarter. On Convoy Street, HIVE, Bobos, Jin Music Studios and Carriage House are all open seven nights.
Does San Diego have private karaoke rooms?
Yes, and nearly all of them are on or near Convoy Street in Kearny Mesa. HIVE has thirteen rooms, and Bobos and Jin Music Studios rent them too. Spot KTV on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard is the main one outside the corridor.
Is this every karaoke bar in San Diego?
No. This page covers the districts and the venues worth knowing first. The full verified list for San Diego lives in the KaraokeList app, with the nights each one runs.
You found the bar.
Now what are you singing?
KaraokeList keeps every karaoke song you can actually pull off — and when the list runs dry, it finds you new ones, each with a reason. The full verified list of San Diego venues is in there too.