Utah Jazz
Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT
- Capacity
- 18,306
- Roof
- Indoor
- Surface
- Hardwood (Maple)
- Opened
- 1991
- Tickets
- $15+
- Parking
- $8+
- Beer
- $10+
- Food
- $6+
- Est. total
- $39+
Against the other 29 NBA arenas, Delta Center is the 7th cheapest game day: 8th for tickets, joint 1st for parking and joint 4th for food and drink, compared on market ticket medians and published lot and menu prices in US dollars. See the full ranking.
Prices are estimates. See our methodology.
What to Expect
Delta Center sits on the west side of downtown Salt Lake City, near the Gateway outdoor shopping center and within view of the Wasatch Mountains. The Jazz have a passionate, loyal fanbase that fills the arena consistently. SLC's food and bar scene has grown substantially, and the pregame experience centers on the Gateway restaurants and Main Street bars. Plan to arrive 60-90 minutes early. Note: Utah's alcohol laws are unique, beer at the arena is 5% ABV (full strength) but some bars have specific rules.
View Seating GuideTips & Fan Reports
Game Day
A permitted diaper or medical bag has to enter at Door 5. It is the only door with an X-ray.
TRAX is free within the Free Fare Downtown Zone, which reaches the arena, so the train costs nothing.
The clutch limit is 4 by 6 by 2 inches, which is smaller than most phones-plus-wallet combinations. Travel with nothing if you can.
Parking & Directions
There is a TRAX light rail station right next to the Delta Center main entrance. Ride the train and skip the parking headache entirely. Plenty of hotels within walking distance too.
TRAX travel is free when both ends of the trip are inside the Free Fare Downtown Zone.
TRAX serves Arena Station directly across South Temple Street.
Food & Drinks
Cashless venue and some food ordering goes through the app. Doors open at 5:30 PM for a 7 PM tipoff. The arena food has decent options but nothing amazing.
Arena food is genuinely affordable, one of the best values in the NBA.
Fry sauce (mayo + ketchup + spices) is Utah's condiment. It's on everything and it's addictive.
Seating
The seating is really vertical at Delta Center so you can see the whole court even from the nosebleeds. Don't stress about getting expensive seats - the view is good from everywhere.
Delta Center's seats physically move between sports. A new seating system installed in the renovation handles a nearly 12-foot difference in elevation between the rink endline and the court endline, so a section's position is not the same for hockey as for basketball.
Seven clubs serve the building (Delta Sky360, Entrata, Black Desert, Interform, Toyota, Gallagher and the Aptive Lofts) and open bars vary between them, so the inclusions are not uniform.
Know Before You Go
- Bag policy
Bags and purses are prohibited; permitted clutches may be no larger than 4 x 6 x 2 inches.
Diaper and medical bags up to 14 x 14 x 6 inches are allowed and must be X-rayed at Door 5, the northeast main entrance.
- Gate opening
Doors are scheduled to open 90 minutes before Jazz home games.
Check the specific event listing before travel because the published time is a standard schedule.
- Venue payments
Delta Center is cash-free and accepts credit, debit, prepaid cards, mobile wallets, and Delta Center Dollars.
Cash-to-card machines are on Level 3 in the America First Atrium and by Portals F and T, and on Level 5 by Portals HH and VV.
- Re-entry
Re-entry is prohibited at Utah Jazz home games.
Guides for Delta Center
- Game Day Guide
7 steps from arrival to tip-off, and 20 venue rules checked against official sources. 3 bars, patios and plazas to fill the hours before doors, and what to bring.
- Parking & Directions
2 lots and garages with distances and entry routes, from $8. Or leave the car: the cheapest way in is TRAX Light Rail (Arena Station), $2.50.
- Food & Drinks
25 concession stands and 25 items researched from the venue's own menus, cheapest food $6 and drink $5.
- Seating Guide
7 seating areas at Delta Center, with the level names printed on the ticket.
- Cost Calculator
Build a total for your own party using Delta Center's stored figures.
How We Checked This Page
Every section below names the source it was read from and the day it was read. Where we could not reach a published figure, the page says so rather than presenting an estimate as a checked fact.
- Venue facts
Wikipedia / Official Venue Page
- Venue policies
Current Delta Center arena-policy, parking, sensory-room, and mother's-lounge pages reviewed for Utah Jazz game-day policies.
Not yet checked against a published source
These figures are estimates. Most venues no longer publish the numbers behind them (concession and ticket pricing moved to dynamic marketplaces), so we hold them as estimates rather than dating them as verified.
- Ticket prices: Secondary market averages (SeatGeek/StubHub)
- Parking prices: Never checked against a published rate: the venue's parking page, read 2026-09-05, publishes none. The page maps the nearby lots and prices none of them. The 2026-07-27 figures were compiled from third-party listings (was: "Delta Center 2026: official lots and surrounding garages $10-$30, prepaid online for the closest").
- Food prices: Team Marketing Report Fan Cost Index + venue research
- Drink prices: Team Marketing Report Fan Cost Index + venue research