Santa Monica COAST World Cup Finale Will Open Downtown Streets on 7/19

Santa Monica’s six-week FIFA World Cup celebration wraps up with COAST 2026 on Sunday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The free, all-ages event will transform more than a mile of Downtown Santa Monica—including the Third Street Promenade, Ocean Avenue, Arizona Avenue, Colorado Avenue, the Metro station, and the Santa Monica Pier—into a pedestrian festival featuring live music, art installations, family activities, food trucks, beer gardens, and cultural performances. The celebration also includes two jumbo screens showing the World Cup Final at noon.

Organizers describe COAST 2026 as the grand finale of Santa Monica’s World Cup festivities and one of the city’s largest community events of the year.

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