Fleet Week 2024: Blue Angels Arrival & Practice Survey Flights (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

San Francisco Fleet Week 2024: Blue Angels + Schedule of Events

Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront and for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week airshow and festival.

Although there is a full week of events, the epochal annual air show takes place October 11-13, 2024 when fans from across the Bay converge on hills, rooftops and all along the waterfront to behold the spectacular taking place over San Francisco Bay between Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.

Held annually between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, The San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show Presented by United attracts fans from all over the globe. The waterfront event is headlined by The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and is the only air show in the United States with a commercial airliner, the United 777, to perform a fully choreographed act.

San Francisco Fleet Week 2024
– Full Festival: October 7-14, 2024
– Airshow: October 11-13, 2024 (practice flights on Thursday Oct. 10)
2024 Fleet Week Event Map
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See the full air show schedule 

2024 Events

Monday October 7

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet 

Tuesday October 8

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet 

1^st Marine Division Band – Brass Band 

1^st Marine Division Band – Woodwind Quintet 

Wednesday October 9

Ship Tours 

Navy Band Southwest – Brass Band 

1^st Marine Division Band – Brass Band 

USAF Band of the Golden West – Mobility 

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet 

1^st Marine Division Band – Woodwind Quintet 

Thursday October 10

Honor Our Fallen Concert 

Ship Tours 

USAF Band of the Golden West – Mobility 

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet 

Navy Band Southwest – Brass Band & SF Pride Band 

1^st MARDIV Band Wind Ensemble & NBSW Woodwind Quintet 
Blue Angels Practice Day & Survey Flights (typically 1-5p)

Friday October 11

Parade of Ships

Air Show – 10am to 4pm (Blue Angels typically 3-4p)

Fleet Week Expo

Silent Drill Platoon

Navy Band Southwest – Brass Band

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet

1^st MARDIV Ceremonial Band, Silent Drill Platoon, and Diamondbacks

Navy Band Southwest – Destroyers

1^st Marine Division – Brass Band

Port Chicago 50 Play

FRIDAY AIR SHOW
Show Start 12:45pm
Blue Angels: 3:00pm

• Anthem – US Navy Parachute Team
• United Airlines
• MH-65/C-27 Demo
• Break 1
• Major Thomas Duffy – U-2
• F-22 Demo
• F-22 Heritage Flight – F-22/P-51
• Ace Maker – T-33
• Break 2
• Randy Howell/Cory Lovell – Dual
• F-35B Demo
• United Airlines
• Break 3
• Blue Angels – Fat Albert
• Blue Angels Team 1 – 6

Saturday October 12

Air Show– 11am to 4pm (Blue Angels typically 3-4p)

Fleet Week Expo

Fleet Fest

Heroes Concert at Fleet Fest

Ship Tours

Silent Drill Platoon

Navy Band Southwest – Brass Band

Navy Band Southwest – Woodwind Quintet

1^st Marine Division – Brass Band

Navy Band Southwest – Destroyers

1^st MARDIV Brass Band, and Diamondbacks

Port Chicago 50 Play

SATURDAY AIR SHOW
Show Start 12:30pm

Blue Angels: 3:00pm

• Anthem – US Navy Parachute Team
• United Airlines
• MH-65/C-27 Demo
• Break 1
• Patriots Jet Team
• F-22 Demo
• F-22 Heritage Flight – F-22/P-51
• Ace Maker – T-33
• Break 2
• F-35B Demo
• Randy Howell/Cory Lovell – Dual
• United Airlines
• Break 3
• Blue Angels – Fat Albert
• Blue Angels Team 1 – 6

Sunday October 13

Air Show – 11am to 4pm (Blue Angels typically 3-4p)

Fleet Week Expo 

Fleet Fest 

Ship Tours 

Silent Drill Platoon 

US Naval Sea Cadet Corps Band of the West Division 

1^st MARDIV Ceremonial Band, and NBSW Bands

SUNDAY AIR SHOW

Show Start 12:30pm

Blue Angels: 3:00pm

• Anthem – US Navy Parachute Team
• United Airlines
• MH-65/C-27 Demo
• Break 1
• Patriots Jet Team
• F-22 Demo
• F-22 Heritage Flight – F-22/P-51
• Ace Maker – T-33
• Break 2
• F-35B Demo
• Randy Howell/Cory Lovell – Dual
• United Airlines
• Break 3
• Blue Angels – Fat Albert
• Blue Angels Team 1 – 6

Monday October 14

1^st Marine Division – Ceremonial Band 

High School Hand Challenge 

Ship Tours 

Thursday, October 10, 2024
San Francisco Fleet Week 2024: Blue Angels + Schedule of Events

Although it’s not the full airshow later in the week, typically the Blue Angels will do survey flights periodically during the time period of about 1-5 pm on Thursday.

So, although it’s not guaranteed, on Thursday you should be able to see (and hear) the Blue Angels buzzing the city and over the waterfront doing their annual Survey Flights of San Francisco.

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.