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There are 117 AA meetings in Santa Monica, CA across 98 locations and 7 days a week. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are free and confidential, and open to anyone with a desire to stop drinking. Use the schedule below to find local and online AA meetings in Santa Monica by day, time, and format, with directions to each.
Across Santa Monica, Monday is the busiest day for AA meetings, and evening (5–9 PM) sessions are the most common. About 6% of groups (7) offer an online or hybrid option, while in-person groups meet across 98 venues in and around the city.
Common formats include Speaker, Discussion, and Closed meetings. If nothing nearby fits your schedule, West Hollywood (8 mi) and Sherman Oaks (10 mi) also have listed meetings within driving range.
This meeting meets in a coffee house. Entrance on side street. Plenty of street parking until 9:00 am. Freeway close (Centinela exit off 10 Fwy)
(Downstairs)
Colorado Center, West of 26th St.
Meeting Room is in the historical Santa Monica Rapp Saloon. Entrance is through the International Hostel that is connected to the Rapp Saloon
This meeting meets at a coffee house on the corner. Parking is on the street and please pay attention to parking restrictions.
Please check the parking signs. Metered parking available on Wilshire. There is public parking available on 18th street.
This meeting is in a community center.
This meeting is in a community center.
Meeting is held in Church Room 1 You don’t have to have 10 years of sobriety to share.
For more info on this big book workshop call Karl at 323 378 2866
This meeting meets at a park recreation center, enter on 14th.
Meets in small building on SW end of the park, corner of Wilshire & 24th Streets.
BRING YOUR BIG BOOK. This is a focused big book study. This is not a meeting for checking in, sharing about your day, etc. We go through the big book and stay focused on the paragraph(s) we are currently reading. Anyone who has not yet work...
We read the Plain Language Big Book
This meeting takes place in a church. It is held in the Duvall Room.
AA Big Book Study. Gay, but all are welcomed. Meets in the Joslyn Park small craft room.
This meeting meets in the auditorium
This meeting is in a Center
This meeting is in a community center.
This meeting meets at an alano club on the 2nd floor.
1/22/26 Notified of time by email
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This directory lists 117 AA meetings across 98 locations in Santa Monica, California, spanning a range of days, times, and formats so you can find one that fits your schedule.
Whether it's your first meeting or your hundredth, Santa Monica's AA community makes room for everyone.
AA is peer support. Some people also work with:
For official AA information, visit aa.org.
This directory lists 117 AA meetings in Santa Monica, CA at 98 venues. AA meetings are free and Alcoholics Anonymous is self supporting, so there is no fee, no insurance check, and no intake form. AA is not treatment and does not provide detox, medical care, or housing. Those are separate services, and knowing which is which is the difference between getting the right help and getting none.
Five things are commonly confused with each other. They differ in who supervises them, whether you live there, and how they are paid for.
| Option | What it is | Medically supervised | How it is paid for |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA meetings | Free peer support groups, in person and online | No | Free, self supporting through member contributions |
| Detox | Short term medically supervised detox while alcohol leaves the body | Yes | Health service or paid, depending on the provider |
| Residential treatment | Inpatient or residential treatment, living on site for a set period | Yes | Health service, insurance, or self funded |
| Outpatient treatment | Outpatient and intensive outpatient programmes, structured sessions while living at home | Usually | Health service, insurance, or self funded |
| Sober living | Sober living homes and recovery residences, shared abstinent housing with house rules | No | Usually rent paid by the resident |
Not always, and this is the one thing on this page worth reading twice. Stopping suddenly after heavy daily drinking can cause withdrawal that ranges from uncomfortable to genuinely dangerous, which is why medically supervised detox exists as a service distinct from counselling or rehab. If you drink heavily every day, the safe order is to speak to a doctor or a withdrawal service first, then use meetings to hold the ground you gain. This is the published position of SAMHSA, not advice from this directory.
Sober living homes and recovery residences are shared homes where everyone living there is staying sober, usually with house rules, curfews, and required meeting attendance. It is housing, not treatment, and not medical care. People commonly move in after residential treatment, or when going home would mean returning to the circumstances the drinking grew in. Residents in California typically attend local AA meetings as part of the house agreement, which is where a schedule like the one on this page stops being abstract.
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Service details verified against SAMHSA on . The AA Directory lists meetings. It does not run, recommend, rank, or take payment from any treatment provider, sober living home operator, or detox service, and it has no affiliation with the groups whose meetings it lists. Anything described above that is not an AA meeting is here so you know it exists, not because it is being suggested to you.
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Santa Monica is located in Los Angeles County, part of the broader California AA network. This directory covers AA meetings throughout Los Angeles County, with times, locations, formats, and accessibility details for each.
Los Angeles County has a wide range of AA meetings: open and closed formats, speaker meetings, step studies, and groups for specific demographics. Morning, evening, and weekend slots are available throughout the county.
Many people in Santa Monica attend meetings in neighboring communities within Los Angeles County simply because a particular group suits them better. County-level intergroups and central offices also coordinate schedules, run 24-hour phone lines, and connect people with local AA resources.
More meetings nearby: Use the filters above to search by day, time, format, and type. You can also browse the California AA meetings directory to find groups in other cities throughout Los Angeles County and across the state.