Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 218 stores from 135 gym chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. 24 Hour Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fit Athletic Club and YMCA.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
135
Tracked stores
218
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gym chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. 24 Hour Fitness and Fit Athletic Club sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 24 Hour Fitness - +10.1%
2 Fit Athletic Club - +7.9%
3 YMCA - +4.8%
4 Crunch Fitness ▲1 +0.9%
5 Planet Fitness ▲1 -26.7%
6 The Camp Transformation Center ▲1 -54.4%
7 Ultimate Fitness ▲1 -54.4%
8 LA Fitness ▼4 -99.4%
  • 24 Hour Fitness
  • Life Time
  • MCAS Miramar
  • The Gym
  • Fit Athletic Club
  • Chuze Fitness
  • EōS Fitness
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

218 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 66 of the 218 stores (30%); 119 of the 135 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, the same share as across California.

  • 24 Hour Fitness (26)
  • Life Time (2)
  • MCAS Miramar (2)
  • The Gym (2)
  • Fit Athletic Club (3)
  • Chuze Fitness (8)
  • EōS Fitness (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 24 Hour Fitness 26
  • 2 Planet Fitness 17
  • 3 Chuze Fitness 8
  • 4 LA Fitness 8
  • 5 YMCA 7
  • 6 The Camp Transformation Center 5
  • 7 Crunch Fitness 5
  • 8 Anytime Fitness 4
  • 9 Ultimate Fitness 3
  • 10 Fit Athletic Club 3
  • 11 EōS Fitness 3
  • 12 Performance360 2
  • 13 Life Time 2
  • 14 Self Made Training Facility 2
  • 15 The Gym 2
  • 16 MCAS Miramar 2
  • 17 Semper Fit Center 1
  • 18 Dose Fitness 1
  • 19 Luckie Waller Little League 1
  • 20 The Strength Tank 1
  • 21 Metroflex Gym 1
  • 22 Revel Fit Club 1
  • 23 The Coast Nutrition & Fitness 1
  • 24 Clairemont Hilltopper Little 1
  • 25 Municipal Gymnasium 1
  • 26 South Bay Muscle Gym 1
  • 27 LVLZ Boxing 1
  • 28 TruSelf Sporting Club 1
  • 29 YoFiT La Costa 1
  • 30 Body By Discipline 1
  • 31 Equinox 1
  • 32 Effective Fitness 1
  • 33 San Carlos Fitness 1
  • 34 San Diego UNITED Training Center 1
  • 35 Basecamp Fitness 1
  • 36 City Boxing 1
  • 37 Club Paradise Fitness 1
  • 38 Fitness 19 1
  • 39 Personally Fit 1
  • 40 Neighborhood CrossFit 1
  • 41 Coronado Fitness Club 1
  • 42 OMODE Training House 1
  • 43 Crossfit La Mesa 1
  • 44 UCSD Recreation 1
  • 45 Velocity Sports Performance 1
  • 46 Will Power Community Fitness 1
  • 47 War House Gym 1
  • 48 The BXNG Club 1
  • 49 Powerhouse Gym 1
  • 50 Crossfit 1

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