Eat & drink

Happy hours in Santa Barbara.

Happy hour times and deal prices at 96 bars and restaurants from Goleta to Carpinteria. We read each one on the venue's own website or menu, and every listing shows the day we checked it.

96 happy hours · checked Oct 29, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026

96 happy hours, any day

Santa Barbara 70

Goleta 12

Carpinteria 5

Montecito 7

Isla Vista 2

Quick answers

What time is happy hour in Santa Barbara?

At most of the 96 places we list, happy hour starts between 2 and 4 PM and ends between 5 and 6 PM. The most common window is 3 to 6 PM, at 17 of them.

Which Santa Barbara happy hours have an ocean view?

11 of the places here: The Anchor Rose, Chad's Cafe, Convivo Restaurant and Bar, Costa Kitchen & Bar, The Ellwood at Goleta Beach, The Harbor Restaurant, Longboard's Grill, Moby Dick Restaurant, Padaro Beach Grill in Carpinteria, Reunion Kitchen + Drink and Shoreline Beach Cafe.

Is there a late-night happy hour in Santa Barbara?

Yes, at The Black Sheep Santa Barbara Brasserie, Eureka!, Milk & Honey Tapas, Saint Remy, Shalhoob's Funk Zone Patio and Woodstock's Pizza Isla Vista.

Do places pay to be on this list?

No. A place goes on once its own website, menu or post shows the happy hour, and it stays on while we can still find it there. Nobody can pay to be listed or ranked.

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