San Francisco Bay Area Events Calendar
This is a 'summary' page. As you notice, it doesn't have specific dates of when the event is on. You can find the specifics from the web sites at the bottom of the page.Events in bold are very San Franciscan
Events in (brackets) span more than a month
Events taged with (*) are outside bayarea region
Year-around
Janurary
- (Watch Seals at Ano Nuevo)
- Napa Valley mustard festival
February
- (Watch Seals at Ano Nuevo)
- (Napa Valley mustard festival)
- Chinese new year parade
- TulipMania - display of Tulips in Fishermens' wharf (pier 39)
March
- (Watch Seals at Ano Nuevo)
- (Napa Valley mustard festival
- St Patrick's day - all over
- Spring wild flower viewing. See here for details
April
- (Spring wild flower viewing)
- (Napa Valley mustard festival)
- Ride the trains to wild flowers at Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol
- Cherry Blosom Festival - Japan town, San Francisco
- last Sunday : Dream machines, Half Moon Bay - classic cars, planes ..etc
May
- 2 : Cinco
de Mayo - San Francisco / San Jose
- mid month : Bay to Breakers - San Francisco
- KFOG Kaboom fireworks - San Francisco (by Bay Bridge)
- end : Carnaval - San Francisco
- opera in the gardens @ Yerba Buena Gardens
- Kite flying and hot air baloon launching at San Ramon Park
June
- Stern
Groove music festival - Stern Groove, San Francisco
- Pride parade - San Francisco
- North Beach festival - North Beach, San Francisco
- Haight Street fair - Haight, San Francisco
- Nevada City Bicycle race
July
- (Stern Groove)
- Music in the park - San Mateo Central Park
- 4th : Independance day - fireworks at Crissy field and Fishermens' wharf
- Hot air balloons classic at Windor, Sonoma
- Aids walk - San Francisco
- San Francisco marathon - across Golden Gate bridge
- Berkeley kite festival
August
- (Stern Groove)
- (Music in the park - San Mateo, Central Park)
- (buy tickets for Burning man - Sept)
September
- Fall colors start. see here
- Burning Man
- Opera in the park - San Francisco
- Reno Hot Air Balloons
- Montague Balloon Fair
- Shakespeare
festival - San Francisco
- Chinatown moon festival - San Francisco
- Festival of Sea - Maritime park, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco
- Folsom street fair - San Francisco
- Dragon Boat race - San Francisco
- SF grand prix - San Francisco
- Ghiradelli
chocolate festival - Ghiradelli square, San Francisco
- paddle
festival -
Coyote point, San Mateo
October
- (Fall colors in progress. see here)
- California International Air Show, Salinas
- Love
Parade - San Francisco
- Castro street fair - San Francisco
- Fleet week, San Francisco - Watch ships come in from Golden Gate bridge and Lands End
- Columbus day parade - North Beach, San Francisco
- Oktoberfest - Fort Mason, San Francisco
- late october : watch
monarch butterflies migrate (in pacific
grove)
- Half moon bay
pumpkin festival - Half Moon bay
Also pumpkin patches around town - Exotic Erotic Ball
- 31 : Halloween at castro
- San Francisco
The halloween night people with all sorts of costumes or naked asseble at the intersection of Market and Castro streets. Take public transportation (Muni stop is Church street)
November
- WHAMOBASS ballooning
- Holiday Events
-
- Ghirardelli square tree lighting
- Embarcadero center lighting
- Macy's Union Square Tree Lighting Ceremony (day after Thanks Giving)
- winter christmas @ Filoli gardens
- China Town night market
- Lights at Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy
December
- Holiday events
-
- Lighted Yatch parade @ Jack London Square, Oakland. More info at oaklandyachtclub.com and encinal.org
- Lighted boat parade, Santa Cruz Harbor
- * Lighted boat parade at Newport Beach, CA
- Lighted train at Niles Canyon Railway
- New Years Eve fireworks - Embarcadero, San Francisco
- Watch Seals at Ano Nuevo
park (through March)
Sources
- personal experience :-)
- Lonely planet San Francisco
- SFGate.com
- SFStation
- SF Bay Guardian
- also thanks to Andrew Hundson - author of Photo Secrets series of books