0.6 miles away
Petersen House Museum
A restored 1892 Queen Anne Style brick house in Tempe, built by an early settler and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sea Life Arizona
A 26,000-square-foot aquarium at Tempe's Arizona Mills mall, with 30 displays, touch pools and a 360-degree ocean tunnel.
- Rank in Arizona
- #422of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 36.5 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Zoo or Aquarium
Sea Life Arizona is a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) aquarium at the Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, Arizona, with thousands of aquatic creatures across some 30 displays, interactive touch pools and a 360-degree ocean tunnel visitors walk through. It is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments, which runs more than forty other aquariums across eleven countries and four continents, eight of them in the United States.
Where it is
Sea Life Arizona is a zoo or aquarium near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the zoos & aquariums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Sea Life Arizona, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.visitsealife.com/arizona/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
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2.6 miles away
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ASU Art Museum
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ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Zoo or Aquarium
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 36.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 14.2
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- visitsealife.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.3848, -111.9633
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12