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Clippers at Intuit Dome: What time do doors open?

Doors open about 90 minutes before tip-off here.

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So when do you leave?

Your leave-by time is the first travel row. Ready Time can alert you when it comes up. Put in your tip-off time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.

Tip-off
15 min Final pack & check 5:46 PM
40 min Drive to the arena 6:01 PM
15 min Park in a prebooked arena garage 6:41 PM
6 min Walk to the doors 6:56 PM
10 min Security screening 7:02 PM
8 min Walk to your seat 7:12 PM
10 min In your seat for the anthem 7:20 PM
Tip-off 7:30 PM

NBA game night at Intuit Dome, home of the LA Clippers. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.

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At a glance

Doors open
About 90 minutes before tip-off
Drive
About 40 min from Los AngelesWithout game traffic · real drive
Transit
Metro rail & Clippers connector shuttle
Parking
Park in a prebooked arena garage
Intuit Dome's lettering and red steel frame in Inglewood
Photo by Spatms, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for this page.

Tip-off times at Intuit Dome

Start times here are the team's own. The NBA sells no national window, so a game goes on when the building and the market suit and there is nothing to convert from Eastern. These are the slots this team plays most often.

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These are Intuit Dome’s own times. The team publishes start times with the schedule in the summer and a few move again for television during the season, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.

Cup group games, Christmas Day, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day afternoon and a nationally televised night run their own times. Type those in on the tip-off row.

Getting to Intuit Dome

No train stops at the arena. For Clippers home games, LA Metro connector shuttles run to Intuit Dome from three stations: Downtown Inglewood on the K Line, Hawthorne/Lennox on the C Line, and the LAX/Metro Transit Center. At the arena end they stop at the curb on Prairie Avenue just south of Century Boulevard. The arena also runs shuttles that you book ahead in the app through RideCo: Park & Ride buses from Union Station, Expo/Sepulveda, El Monte, Harbor Gateway Transit Center and Pierce College, and electric vans that collect you anywhere within six miles.

Those start picking up two hours before tip-off, nobody rides without a reservation, and the return pick-up starts at the East Garage half an hour after the final buzzer. Driving, the arena’s directions use the 405 to Century Boulevard or the 105 to Prairie Avenue, and a weeknight tip-off puts you on them at the end of the evening commute.

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Intuit Dome has its own garages, and a space in one is guaranteed only if you buy a parking pass ahead through JustPark, which the arena links for passes, and add your car to the Vehicle Profile in the Clippers + Intuit Dome app. The garages read your license plate on the way in.

The VIP West Garage is entered from Prairie Avenue and the Standard East Garage from 102nd Street, and they open four hours before tip-off. Without a pass, the arena says to carpool or take a rideshare. Rideshare drop-off and pick-up are allowed only at the Mobility Hub on the first level of the East Garage, which is also where taxis and the arena’s shuttles stop.

Doors, the queue, and what you can carry in

Bag rules are the arena's own here and they run from a wallet-sized clutch to a bag that fits under your seat. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line.

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Check current sizes and door times on the Intuit Dome Know Before You Go page before you go.

Doors open 90 minutes before tip-off for Clippers games; the arena’s general guide says an hour for its other events. There are no paper tickets and no barcode. Everyone needs their own account in the Clippers + Intuit Dome app with a ticket on it, so transfer or assign tickets to your guests before you leave, and add children under 13 as Teammates. You get in either with GameFace ID, a selfie saved in the app that lets you walk through with your phone in your pocket, or by tapping the Identity Pass in your phone’s wallet.

At the Main Entrance the GameFace lane is on the left and the Identity Pass lane on the right. Bags are limited to clutches, clear ones included, up to 10 by 6 by 2 inches; medical and childcare bags up to 14 by 14 by 6 inches are allowed and go through X-ray. No outside food or drink, though you can bring an empty refillable bottle of a quart or less. The arena is cashless: you pay at the stands with the card saved in the app, or by tapping a card at the store gates. There is no re-entry.

Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.

Common questions

How early should I get to Intuit Dome?

Doors open about 90 minutes before tip-off here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before tip-off covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.

When should I leave for Intuit Dome?

Work backward from tip-off: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (40 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 6:01 PM for a 7:30 PM tip-off. Change the tip-off time and every row moves.

What time is tip-off at Intuit Dome?

It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a weekend matinee tips off at 1:30 PM, an early-evening game at 6:00 PM, a night game at 7:30 PM. This example uses the night game window. Cup games, holiday afternoons and nationally televised nights run their own times; the tip-off row is editable for those.

How long does the security line take?

The plan allows 10 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before tip-off. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.

What time do the doors open at Intuit Dome?

About 90 minutes before tip-off here. Check the Intuit Dome Know Before You Go page for your game.

Can I tailgate at Intuit Dome?

Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.

What can I bring in?

Assume the limit is small. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.

Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.

The countdown to tip-off, on your Lock Screen

Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.

Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.

Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.

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