Sejak SEA Games pertama kali digelar di tahun 1959 setidaknya sampai saat ini sudah yang ke 31 kalinya, berikut ini daftar kota tuan rumah SEA Games mulai tahun 1959 sampai dengan tahun 2022 adalah sebagai berikut:
| 1 | SEA Games 1959: Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2 | SEA Games 1961: Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) |
| 3 | SEA Games 1965: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 4 | SEA Games 1967: Bangkok, Thailand |
| 5 | SEA Games 1969: Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) |
| 6 | SEA Games 1971: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 7 | SEA Games 1973: Singapura |
| 8 | SEA Games 1975: Bangkok, Thailand |
| 9 | SEA Games 1977: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 10 | SEA Games 1979: Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 11 | SEA Games 1981: Manila, Filipina |
| 12 | SEA Games 1983: Singapura |
| 13 | SEA Games 1985: Bangkok, Thailand |
| 14 | SEA Games 1987: Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 15 | SEA Games 1989: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 16 | SEA Games 1991: Manila, Filipina |
| 17 | SEA Games 1993: Singapura |
| 18 | SEA Games 1995: Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| 19 | SEA Games 1997: Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 20 | SEA Games 1999: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei |
| 21 | SEA Games 2001: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 22 | SEA Games 2003: Hanoi dan Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| 23 | SEA Games 2005: Manila, Filipina |
| 24 | SEA Games 2007: Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand |
| 25 | SEA Games 2009: Vientiane, Laos |
| 26 | SEA Games 2011: Jakarta dan Palembang, Indonesia |
| 27 | SEA Games 2013: Naypyidaw, Myanmar |
| 28 | SEA Games 2015: Singapura |
| 29 | SEA Games 2017: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 30 | SEA Games 2019: Clark, Subic, Metro Manila, dan BLT (Batangas, La Union, & Tagaytay), Filipina |
| 31 | SEA Games 2021: Hanoi, Vietnam |