Record stores in Havana

Vinyl hunting in Havana, La Habana? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around Havana. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Havana (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Venta de Discos and Mariachi Internacional Veracruz en La Habana. If a record shop's missing from Havana's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Havana record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Havana

1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The one mapped record store sits on Aguacate — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Havana record crawl

The efficient Havana record crawl strings these together: Venta de Discos and Mariachi Internacional Veracruz en La Habana on Aguacate — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Havana

Digging in Havana? A few habits pay off:

• Ask the staff what's new at Venta de Discos. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.
• Buy the weird stuff at Mariachi Internacional Veracruz en La Habana. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Note the shop's specialties. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Havana — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Havana can take a while to appear. The 2 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.