Bay Area’s Halloween Party Guide 2027
Halloween 2027 is on the way. We’re already looking ahead to another spooky season in the Bay Area, and we’ll start adding Halloween events and parties and more as details are announced.
In the meantime, take a look at our 2026 Halloween Guide below for a look at last year’s festivities and annual favorites that may return for 2027. Check back closer to Halloween for 2027’s updated lineup.
Halloween 2026
Halloween falls on a Saturday in 2026, which means a full weekend of excuses to dress up, dance and get a little weird. Kick things off Friday with Nightmare on Front Street, then hit Saturday’s big celebrations, from Crawloween’s massive pub crawl and the Castro’s four-block Halloween bash to Dance-O-Ween’s roving dance party.
Funcheap’s SF Hallowen Party! Free Halloween Comedy Night + Free After Party – Oct. 30 + 31
Comedians in costume and Free Candy? It’s The Function’s 7th annual “Halloween Comedy Fright Fest” on Market St. in SF. Two shows a night at 7pm to 9pm plus each night a “No Scrubs” 90s/hip hop dance party until 2am. RSVP for Free Comedy | RSVP for Free “No Scrubs” After Party
Want something stranger? Try Goth Yoga, a Lord of the Rings square dance, lucha libre at a secret Halloween party or a drag horror musical. Here are the Bay Area Halloween parties worth putting on your calendar.
2026 Halloween Events Worth Checking Out
- Dance-O-Ween: SF’s Epic Roving Costumed Dance Party | FREE | A roving Halloween dance party with mobile DJs, wild costumes and spontaneous dancing through the Mission.
- Castro Halloween Block Party & Night Market | FREE | Four blocks, three stages, costume contests, trick-or-treating and live entertainment, plus the neon-fueled Glow in the Streets.
- SF’s Wild DIY Halloween Block Party (17th & Belvedere) | FREE | The neighbors on Belvedere Street (between 17th Street and Parnassus Avenue) in Cole Valley transform their street into one of the city’s most well-known Halloween celebrations with decorations, DJs and go-go dancers in bay windows.
- Crawloween: SF’s Epic Halloween Pub Crawl | From $15 | Costumed crowds, drink specials, DJs and parties at dozens of participating bars across multiple dates.
- NEW! Robots Handing Out Candy | FREE | A group of friends in Potrero Hill built robots that hand out candy to trick or treaters.
- NEW! Secret SF Halloween Forest Crawl: Roast Battles, Lucha Libre + DJs | FREE with RSVP for the first 100 | A secret-location party featuring lucha libre wrestling, comedian roast battles, burlesque and occult theatrics.
- Fillmore After Dark Halloween Night Market | FREE | Neighborhood crawl w/ live acts, spooky bounce houses, creepy sweets & treats, costume contest, games & prizes including Fillmore Bingo
- NEW! Valkyries WNBA Finals Game 7 Watch Parties | FREE | The final game of the series is on Hallowen at 5p – a great pre-party option for Halloween. Here’s 60+ spots to watch the game including Salesforce Park rooftop watch party & Thrive City.
- Halloween on Cortland Block Party | FREE | Five blocks of free family-friendly trick or treating fun in Bernal Heights
- NEW! Volunteer on Halloween for Free Food/Treats | FREE | 16 volunteer opportunies for neighborhood cleanups all over SF. Join a group of like-minded people, help clean up the hood for about an hour, and then get rewarded with treats like free food, free coffee and free snacks.
- Emporium’s Halloween Costume Contest Party | FREE entry | A haunted arcade party with costume contests and cash prizes, including $500 for first place.
- Halloween Night Goth Yoga | About $23 | Stretch and breathe to dark-wave music at the Church of Mother Gong. Costumes welcome.
- Spooky Garden Reverie | FREE | A neighborhood garden in the Portola’s Garden District turns spooky for one night each year.
- Santa Cruz “Witch Walk” | FREE | Spooooky celebration along the cliffs of Santa Cruz around sunset honoring women, power, spirit, and community.
- Lord of the Rings Square Dance | From $20 | Tolkien-inspired costumes, live music and a fantasy-themed square dance where beginners are welcome.
- Ocular Oddities: After Hours at the Museum of the Eye | About $21 | Explore antique glass eyeballs, skulls and creepy stories from ophthalmology’s past at this unusual after-hours museum event.
- Sqream: Oasis’ ’90s Drag Horror Musical | $50 | A campy drag parody of ’90s slasher movies, with horror-movie mayhem and a musical twist.
- Pink Flamingo Halloween Drag & Burlesque Bingo | FREE | Drag, burlesque, bingo, prizes and a costume contest for a playful, low-cost Halloween night out.
- Nightmare on Front Street | FREE | Friday night (Oct. 30) | A spooky pre-Halloween block party in Downtown SF with DJs to kick off the weekend.
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