5 installations

Military bases near San Diego, CA

5 mapped installations within approximately 60 miles of the San Diego, CA postal-place center, ordered by straight-line distance.

Understand the installation mix

The locations in this directory span 3 Marine Corps, 2 Navy. Those categories describe the map group, while each guide explains the public mission and support context. Joint bases appear in the Joint category.

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

The depot is adjacent to San Diego International Airport and downtown, within a county containing several separate Navy and Marine installations.

Official sources: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS: MCRD San Diego overview

Naval Base San Diego

The base is in San Diego, where the official profile highlights significant housing costs and local trolley connections.

Official sources: Naval Base San Diego: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Naval Base Coronado

Coronado lies between San Diego Bay and the Pacific; the consolidated base also encompasses geographically separate facilities.

Official sources: Naval Base Coronado: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Installation guides near San Diego, CA

Plan around your actual assignment

A base name or city is a starting point. Identify the gaining organization, reporting destination and support community before choosing lodging or housing. Training sites, Reserve locations and permanent installations may have different arrangements. Use the installation guides for the published destination labels, official contacts and a saveable arrival checklist.

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Coverage and distance method

This is a curated directory, not an inventory of every military property. State lists use the state named in the installation’s listed community and do not describe every boundary or satellite site.

Metro lists include mapped points within 60 miles of an approximate center averaged from GeoNames postal-place records for San Diego, CA. A straight-line radius is not a metropolitan boundary or a driving commute. Installation map points do not identify entry gates.

Postal places adapted from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0.