Some seats, yes. For a typical July 1:10 PM day game at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, roughly 37% of the seating bowl is shaded on average across the event. Shade grows through the late afternoon; by 6:00 PM about 75% of seats are out of the sun.
Check YOUR seat for YOUR event →Typical July afternoon highs at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum are around 80°F. Shaded seats make a real comfort difference.
No. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is open air.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, CA) is oriented 84° from true north. We compute the sun's exact position for your date and start time and run it against the seating geometry, plus live schedules and an hour-by-hour forecast on the interactive site.
Interactive shade map for Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum · Satellite shadow view
Two Olympic Games have been staged under the open sky at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and that sky is still the main event for anyone sitting through a USC day game. The bowl has no roof over its 77,500 seats, and at an early-afternoon kickoff in high summer the sun hangs 77 degrees overhead in the south-southwest. A game starting around 1:10 PM averages about 37 percent shade across the stadium, most of it concentrated in the small slice of seats with something above them.
Club sections 201 through 206 on the 200 level are the best bet, each holding roughly 50 percent shade through an afternoon game. The lower bowl bakes: sections 126 and 114 average 29 percent shade, with 127 and 109 right behind at 28. When the sun is nearly overhead, the rim of the bowl casts almost no shadow onto the seats below it, so overhead cover, not the stadium's walls, is what decides your afternoon. If you're buying for a day game in the season's first month, that distinction is worth real money.
The Coliseum turns comfortable fast once the sun drops. By 7 PM in midsummer it sits just 11 degrees above the horizon in the west-northwest, and from 6 PM onward 75 percent of the seats are shaded. Sunset comes at 8:04 PM in July and earlier as the season wears on, so an evening kickoff is effectively a shade game after the opening drive. The hard ones are the August and September noon and 3:30 starts, Los Angeles runs 87°F afternoons in August and 84°F in September, and the tailgate scene in Exposition Park is mostly open ground, so you're in full sun well before the gates open. Hydrate early; dry Southern California heat sneaks up on you somewhere between the tailgate and the third quarter.
By November, afternoons in Los Angeles settle to about 71°F and the low autumn sun loses its bite; a day game becomes something to enjoy rather than manage. Until then, the practical order of preference is simple: a night kickoff if the schedule offers one, covered 200-level seats if it doesn't, and water, sunscreen, and a hat for everything else. To see how the sun tracks across your exact section on game day, the interactive shade map runs the numbers for any date and start time.
Upcoming events at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum are ticketed on TixBit. Check the shade map first, then grab a seat on the shady side.