Events for October 31, 2025
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Friday, October 31
Japanese Tea Garden’s Free Admission Hour (Golden Gate Park)
The Japanese Tea Garden provides visitors from around the world with an opportunity to experience the natural beauty, tranquility, and harmony of a Japanese-style garden in the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Originally created as a “Japanese Village” exhibit for the 1894 California ...Every Friday
Friday Morning Free “Counter Culture” Coffee Tasting (Emeryville)
Join us for a free coffee tasting!
Every Friday morning at 10 am, we open our Training Centers to coffee lovers who want to learn more about Counter Culture Coffee’s high-quality, sustainably sourced menu.
A longstanding tradition at Counter Culture Coffee, our team shares the story behind ...
Trick or Treat Time + Free Goodie Bags (SF’s Chinatown)
Stop by the Visitor Information Center on October 31, 2025, and grab your FREE goodie bag! ✨
Come in costume, snap some spooky pics, and celebrate with us! ️🧡
Visitor Information Center10/31/25
“Pay-What-You-Can” Taco Day at SF’s Tato (Every Friday)
While many restaurants are struggling, San Francisco Mexican restaurant TATO wants to give back. They’re bringing back their “Taco Love” special which features a two taco plate with sides, and pay-what-you-can pricing. Pay-What-You-Can Taco Day Tato 4608 3rd St. (@ McKinnon) San Francisco (Bayview) Every ...Every Friday
Trunk or Treat Halloween Event at the Lake Merritt (Oakland)
Trunk or Treat at Lake Merritt!
Stop by on Friday, October 31 from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM at the Edoff Memorial Bandstand (666 Bellevue Ave, Oakland, CA) for a FREE community Trunk or Treat event!
Bring your family and friends for a fun-filled day featuring: Candy & treats from decorated trunks Music and games Activities for youth ...
Halloween Jam: Mad Science Magic at Fairyland (Oakland)
Trick-or-treating at Fairyland under the night sky? Yes pleeease! Halloween gets a mad science makeover this year. Fairyland is going bonkers and beakers!
On Halloween day, the park becomes a mad science laboratory full of glowing goo, bubbling brews, frightful formulas, and eek-citing experiments!
Spend Halloween trick-or-treating ...
| 12:30 pm | Free Rooftop Yoga at Salesforce Park (SF) | FREE |
Noe Valley’s Halloween “Pirate House” is Back for 2025
Thanks to Justina Vanessa @justinavanessa for letting us know that the Noe Valley Pirate House is back at it for 2025 with a crazy fun looking pirate-themed Halloween decorations (it’s not open to the public, but you can view it from the street) with a ...
“Nightmare on Front Street” Free Halloween Block Party (Downtown SF)
FREE HALLOWEEN BLOCK PARTY: Nightmare on Front Street
Get ready for a spook-tacular Halloween celebration in the heart of downtown San Francisco…and it FREE!
Join us for Nightmare on Front Street, a hauntingly fun block party featuring themed cocktails, Multiple areas with live music and DJs , creepy-cool activities, and costumes ...
Petaluma’s Downtown Trick or Treat Trail (2025)
A time of Bats and Broomsticks, Blood and Bugs – and of course, Downtown Petaluma’s Safe “Trick or Treat Trail” with the downtown Merchants!
Parents – gather your little ghosts, goblins, monsters, Harry Potters, witches on broomsticks and princesses, and join the participating downtown merchants for the ...
Ocean Beach Halloween Bonfire Night (Final Bonfire Until March 1, 2026)
For the first time in four months, it’s finally legal again to have a bonfire at Ocean Beach. During the “No Burn” Season (which runs from November 1 to the end of February), bonfires are not allowed, but starting March 1, 2025 bonfires are back ...
Free “Spooktacular” LGBTQ+ Family Halloween Gathering (SF)
Celebrate Halloween with Our Family Coalition and Openhouse at our Intergenerational Community Gathering!
This joyful event brings LGBTQ+ families, kids, and LGBTQ+ seniors together to share traditions, laughter, and Halloween magic before little ones head out to trick-or-treat.
In previous years, this celebration took place later in the evening ...
| 4:00 pm | Dave & Booster’s Halloween Bash (Daly City) | $14.99 |
Halloween on Cortland Ave (SF)
Enjoy car-free Halloween magic on Cortland Avenue. We believe every little monster and superhero deserves a safe, unforgettable night!
5pm Trick-or-Treat Kickoff
6pm Costume Contest
5:15 Pumpkin Decorating
7pm Monster Mash Dance Party
6:45 Spooky Storytime
Street parking available throughout the neighborhood, but spots fill up fast. Consider carpooling, biking, or ...
Precita Eyes Trick- Or-Treat and Dia de los Muertos Altars (SF)
Precita Eyes Trick-Or-Treat
Join us for an evening honoring community tradition and culture.Enjoy Halloween treats , explore the Día de los Muertos altars exhibit: Spirits of Our Culture , and take part in marigold making for all ages .
Trick-or-Treating: 5:00–8:00 PMPrecita Eyes Muralists2981 24th Street, San ...
SF’s New “Halloween Night Bazaar” Block Party
A new Halloween event from Sunset Mercantile!
Sunset Mercantile and Smoking D’s BBQ are bringing a new event to the spooky season line-up with the Halloween Night Bazaar! We’ll be taking over three blocks on Irving Street (between 22nd and 25th) for a whole market of ...
$1 Drink Fridays: “Battle of the Decades” DJ Party (North Beach)
Fridays are now a little bit more awesome. Did someone say $1 drinks? Monroe in North Beach hosts “Battle of the Decades” DJ party and happy hour every Friday with a DJ spinning progressive tunes. Every hour is a different decade – with drink prices ...Every Friday
Halloween Night Bazaar + Block Party (Outer Sunset)
Looking for an exciting, unique, and family-friendly Halloween event? Sunset Mercantile, Smoking D’s BBQ, and Sunset Youth Services have it covered with their first ever Halloween Night Bazaar! Join us on Friday, October 31st on Irving Street between 22nd and 25th Avenue from 5 PM ...
Halloween on Cortland 2025 (SF)
Halloween on Cortland
A Bewitching Community Tradition Returns
Halloween magic comes alive on Cortland Avenue as our beloved Bernal Heights tradition returns for another unforgettable year – no broomstick required!
Halloween on Cortland brings families together for safe, spirited trick-or-treating and plenty of ghoulishly good fun.
| 5:00 pm | Halloween Paint + Sip Rooftop Costume Party (Oakland) | $20* *Ticket required for entry, drink included
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Pumpkin Painting at Public Market Emeryville
Celebrate Halloween with a fun, family-friendly Pumpkin Painting event at Public Market Emeryville! This free, hands-on activity is perfect for all ages and includes up to 40 small pumpkins. While you’re there, enjoy browsing a variety of food vendors inside the market’s lively food hall.
Also ...
Free Halloween Night at the Museum + Ghost Hunt (Palo Alto)
Looking for something to do with your family on Halloween? Join us at the Museum of American Heritage for Halloween Night at the Museum on Friday, October 31 from 5 pm to 9 pm. Stop by the museum for spooky tricks and fun treats. “Ghost ...
“Most Best” Halloween Fun: Karaoke, Poetry + Live Art at KALW (SF)
Start your Most Best Halloween night with KALW! Join us for an evening of karaoke, open mic, live art, poetry, costumes, prizes, and the final night of the OPEN DECKS art show.
Bring your voice, your verse, your weird, your wonderful. Step up to the mic, ...
