2021 World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off (Half Moon Bay)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

This year is Half Moon Bay’s 48th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Watch gigantic gourds the size of a VW bug get weighed.

Spectators are welcome for the 2021 event.

1st place prize money has been increased to $9/pound, plus the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is offering a special $30,000 mega-prize for the world record breaking pumpkin at the prestigious Half Moon Bay event.

Half Moon Bay’s 48th Annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off
Monday, October 11, 2021 | 7a-11a
IDES Grounds, 735 Main Street, Half Moon Bay Get directions
FREE and open to the public – spectators welcome for 2021 (or view livestream on Facebook)

• The weighing of pumpkins will begin around 7am and anticipate ending the weighing around 11am followed by the awards presentation and luncheon.
• Using forklifts and special harnesses, the gargantuan gourds will be carefully placed on a 5-ton capacity, industrial-strength digital scale under the watchful eye of officials from the San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office of Weights, Sealers, and Measures. Half Moon Bay’s Weigh-Off will serve as an officially sanctioned Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC) site.
• Defending champion Travis Gienger’s rhinoceros-sized 2,350-pound mega-gourd (he named it The Tiger King) handily won the 2020 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay CA. It was the heaviest pumpkin weighed in North America in 2020.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.