I’ve also listed estimated driving times here, but as you might imagine, just because a casino is closer, doesn’t mean it’s faster to get to. Specifically, these distances are calculated when starting out at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego. Here’s a list of San Diego’s ten casinos, in order of proximity from San Diego. There’s more on that later, but we’re not counting these card rooms in our list of ten full-fleged regular casinos. In addition to the ten casinos near San Diego, there are two card rooms located in town. The Jamul Casino is the closest casino to downtown San Diego Three of these are less than 30 miles away from the heart of downtown. In total, there are ten casinos within an hour’s drive of San Diego. While there are 24 casinos in Southern California total, 9 of these are located within San Diego County.
