Four places in and around the South Bay have confirmed 2028 Olympic venues: the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, seven venues in Long Beach, and SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Torrance, El Segundo, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and the Palos Verdes Peninsula cities have no venue on the official plan.
That list is worth stating plainly, because a lot of what circulates locally is either out of date or was never accurate. LA28’s venue plan has been revised more than once since the Games were awarded in 2017, and at least one widely repeated South Bay claim – that Metro rail will reach Torrance in time for the Games – is now firmly wrong.
Here is where the 2028 Olympic events actually land as of September 2026, what changed since the original plan, and what it means if you live here.
Which 2028 Olympic events are confirmed in the South Bay?
All of the 2028 Olympic events below appear on LA28‘s own Olympic and Paralympic venue maps, both dated 8 June 2026.
Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro. Six Olympic sailing events – men’s and women’s dinghy, men’s and women’s skiff, mixed dinghy and mixed multihull. LA28 gives the harbor its own named venue zone. No Paralympic events.
Carson – Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 Avalon Boulevard. Four Olympic sports: field hockey, archery, rugby sevens and track cycling, plus tennis. Three Paralympic sports: para archery, wheelchair tennis and para track cycling.
Long Beach – seven venues. Eleven Olympic sports and seven Paralympic sports, the largest number of any city other than Los Angeles itself: water polo and artistic swimming at the Aquatics Center, handball at the Arena, rowing and canoe sprint at Marine Stadium, shooting at the Target Shooting Hall, beach volleyball at a temporary Alamitos Beach stadium, sport climbing at the Climbing Theater, and windsurfing, kite, open water swimming and coastal rowing at Belmont Shore.
Inglewood. SoFi Stadium, renamed “2028 Stadium” for the Games, hosts swimming and both the Olympic and Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. Intuit Dome hosts basketball.
Why is Olympic sailing split between two venues?
Because of a compromise reached in 2025. The original plan, in place from 2017, put all sailing in Long Beach – as it was in 1984. In spring 2025 Long Beach was publicly reported at risk of losing the sport to San Pedro entirely.
On 30 June 2025 LA28 announced the split that stands today: the four board events, windsurfing and kite, go to Belmont Shore in Long Beach from 16 to 20 July 2028, and the six boat events go to the Port of Los Angeles Outer Harbor. The two venues are about ten miles apart.
So both cities are right to claim Olympic sailing, and neither is right to claim all of it. If you see “Olympic sailing will be held in San Pedro,” that is six of ten events.
What is already happening in San Pedro?
This is the part most people are surprised by: international sailing teams have been training in San Pedro since 2026.
The former youth camp at 3000 Shoshonean Road at Cabrillo Beach now operates as an Olympic sailing training center run by a nonprofit called Pathway to Podium, under a revocable permit approved by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners on 30 April 2026 and running through the conclusion of the Games. The Port committed $5 million toward renovating the facility, and the adjacent lot has been converted into a small athlete village with shipping containers leased by national federations as team offices.
The reason is specific to the sport: sailing teams train in the actual venue for years beforehand, because wind and current behave differently in every harbor.
In July 2026 the San Pedro Olympic Classes Regatta brought roughly 200 sailors from 34 countries into the harbor, including 35 Olympians. It is one of only two major Olympic-class regattas held in the United States. Some athletes are living locally, with host families in San Pedro, Palos Verdes and Long Beach.
Two clarifications, because both circulate incorrectly. This is a base for international federations, not a United States national team headquarters. And the facility sits on a permit, not a lease – the Port has said it intends a competitive process after the Games for a permanent sailing and community aquatic center.
The harbor has hosted this before. Olympic sailing was held in the Port of Los Angeles Outer Harbor in 1932.
What is being built before the Games?
In San Pedro, quite a lot, and on a firm schedule. On 13 August 2026 the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved $70.2 million in construction contracts within an $86.4 million total project. The Harbor Boulevard and 22nd Street project adds a 17.5-acre parking area with up to 2,100 stalls, a public restroom, pedestrian walkways and a trolley stop, and widens Harbor Boulevard to two lanes in each direction from S.P. Slip to 22nd Street with a landscaped walkway alongside.
Construction begins in November 2026 and is scheduled to complete in January 2028 – roughly six months before the Games. Funding comes from the Port’s Public Access Investment Plan, which has directed 10 percent of Port operating income to San Pedro and Wilmington since 2015.
Is Metro rail reaching Torrance for the Olympics?
No, and this is the single most common South Bay misunderstanding about the Games.
The project once known as the C Line extension is now the K Line Extension to Torrance. On 22 January 2026 the Metro Board certified the final environmental impact report and selected the Hawthorne Boulevard alignment. The current estimated completion is late 2036, pending funding. The project is in design; construction is not yet funded. The City of Torrance stated publicly that it was disappointed by the alignment selection.
The extension was once discussed inside Metro’s “Twenty-Eight by ’28” framing, which is where the confusion comes from. It is eight years past the Games. Any plan that assumes South Bay rail by 2028 needs revising.
How will people actually get to the venues?
The stated goal at Metro is a car-free Games, with all ticketed spectators arriving by transit, walking or cycling, supported by a Games Route Network of dedicated lanes and enhanced transit service against an estimated one million additional daily trips.
The honest status: Metro’s own Twenty-Eight by ’28 portfolio is 39 percent complete, 25 percent under construction and 36 percent still in design. In August 2026 the Los Angeles Daily News reported that regional transit agencies’ Games plans are roughly $2 billion short of funding.
A San Pedro to Long Beach water taxi has been proposed and found technically feasible, but Metro needed to issue a request for proposals by October 2026 to have service running by July 2028, and that has not happened yet. Treat it as an idea, not a plan.
What that adds up to for a South Bay household is straightforward: the harbor-area road and parking work will be finished, and the regional transit picture will be better than today but not transformed. Local access during the Games will lean on surface streets and shuttles more than rail.
Which South Bay cities have no 2028 Olympic events?
Most South Bay cities host no 2028 Olympic events at all, and that is not a small thing either way. Torrance, El Segundo, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Lomita, Gardena, Wilmington, Harbor City and the four Palos Verdes Peninsula cities appear on neither official map.
What is true for them is location: they sit between the Inglewood, Carson, Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles zones, generally within a 20 to 40 minute drive of several venues outside of event traffic. That is a real feature for anyone attending, and it is a reasonable thing to say.
What is not yet supportable: the marathon route has not been published – LA28 lists the marathon finish, race walk and para powerlifting as “to be confirmed” – and the Olympic torch relay route has not been announced beyond a commitment that it will cross all 50 states. Any claim that the marathon or the torch passes through a specific South Bay city is guesswork today. The same goes for a persistent aggregator listing that pairs Hermosa Beach Pier with LA28 venues; it appears on neither official map.
What do the 2028 Olympic events mean for South Bay homeowners?
Less than the hype suggests in the short run, and more than nothing in the long run. A few things are worth separating.
What is knowable now: the construction schedules, the 2028 Olympic events list, the dates, and the fact that harbor-area public infrastructure completes in January 2028. Those are planning facts. If you are considering work on a property near the harbor, the construction window between November 2026 and January 2028 is a real scheduling input.
What is not knowable now: what any of it does to prices. Research on Olympic host cities is genuinely mixed, effects vary enormously by neighborhood, and anyone quoting you a percentage is guessing. We are not going to.
What to ask about if you are thinking of renting your home during the Games: short-term rental rules differ by jurisdiction across the South Bay, and several cities restrict or prohibit it. The City of Los Angeles, which governs San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor City, has its own home-sharing rules with registration requirements. Confirm what applies to your specific address well before 2028 rather than assuming a Games exemption exists.
One caution on everything above. LA28’s venue maps carry an explicit note that names and venues are subject to change, and this plan has already moved twice. We date-stamp this page and re-check the official maps quarterly. Information here is current as of 10 September 2026.
If you own in San Pedro, Carson or anywhere between the venue zones and want to think through timing – selling before the Games, holding through them, or buying into an area that is about to be more visible than it has been in a century – start with our San Pedro community page or get in touch. We would rather talk through the actual dates than the excitement.