Holidays
SF’s Most Magical Tree Lightings & Holiday Events 2025
Holidays The holidays are just around the corner and you are invited to get into the spirit at tree lightings and holiday festivals all over the Bay Area. Grab your friends and family and marvel at magical fireworks and twinkling lights, hear carolers sing all your seasonal favorites, as the little ones tell more...
SF’s Holiday Craft Markets & Gift Fairs 2025
Holidays Need to take care of your Christmas and holiday shopping early? Here’s some of the Bay’s best craft markets, indie shopping fairs, and pop-ups. Highlights for 2025 include: ‘Cole Valley Nights’ Holiday Night Market (Nov. 20) Oakland’s Uptown Stroll + Holiday Night Market (Nov. 20) The Annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Patchwork Show” Makers more...
15 Awesome Things to Do on Thanksgiving Day (and Night)
Holidays, Thanksgiving There’s plenty of fun to be had in San Francisco this Thanksgiving, whether you want to get a workout at the largest Turkey Trot in the America, or explore the city on a free walking tour, or later in the evening move and groove at a free ’80s dance party. Or, wake up more...
San Francisco “How to Volunteer” for the Holidays 2025 Guide
Causes, Holidays December is in full swing, so why not spread some holiday cheer? Give back to San Francisco with one of these great volunteer opportunities. Spend your Christmas with the elderly, prepare meals to feed to homeless, help giveaway children’s toys to kids in need, and more. It’s the best gift you more...
14+ Hours of Sunshine: First Day of Summer 2025 (June 20)
Holidays Friday, June 20, 2025, is the Summer Solstice—aka the official first day of summer and the day with the most daylight all year. Technically, summer begins at 7:42 PM PST, but with nearly 15 hours of sun, you’ll have plenty of time to soak it in. In San Francisco, the sun more...
The Best of Winter in the Bay Area 2024/2025: What to Do and See
Holidays Winter is coming. Get into the holiday spirit by embracing the best of winter by gazing at dazzling holiday lighting displays, twirling around a pop-up outdoor ice rink, and indulging in seasonal produce. Bring on the winter charm and visit a Christmas tree farm, sniff the magnificent magnolias in bloom, and more...
SF’s 25-Foot Tall Life-Size Victorian Gingerbread House
Bay Area Favorites, Christmas, Holidays, San Francisco, Wow For more than a century, Fairmont San Francisco has enchanted guests with holiday festivities and exuberant ambiance. This season, Fairmont’s elves were back at it once again working overtime to create a dazzling, unparalleled winter display. On display from November 23, 2024 through the New Year, the hotel transforms into one more...
Bay Area 2023 Holiday Markets
Fairs & Festivals, Holidays Feeling festive? Get into the spirit at a local holiday market from pop-up shops to holiday strolls, night markets, and even traditional Christmas Markets like the German Christmas Market.
Embarcadero Center Hosts First-Ever “Holiday Market” (November 29)
Holidays, San Francisco, Sponsored Join us for Embarcadero Center’s first Holiday Market on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 from 2-5p at Three Embarcadero Center on the Urban Patio! Enjoy specialty holiday cocktails & beverages, photos with Santa (3pm – 4pm) and knock out your holiday shopping with our Embarcadero Center retailers! Holiday Market Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | more...
2023 Tree Lightings & Holiday Lights (San Francisco + Bay Area)
Fairs & Festivals, Holidays Bay Area shines bright for 2023! Get ready to be swept away by the magical glow of 2023’s tree lightings and holiday displays in San Francisco and the Bay Area! From the iconic Union Square tree to charming neighborhood illuminations, this year promises a season of dazzling festivities. Explore a wonderland of more...
2023 Holiday Festivities (San Francisco + Bay Area)
Fairs & Festivals, Holidays Embracing the holiday spirit in the Bay for 2023! Bay Area comes alive with vibrant holiday cheer as the season approaches. From dazzling lights to festive markets, the region offers an array of delightful festivities for locals and visitors alike. > Please note that we’ll be continuing to update our Holiday Festivities more...
Huge End-of-2022 Craft Market at Hangar 1’s Alameda Distillery
Holidays, Sponsored On the third Sunday of each month from 11a-5p, enjoy browsing through Head West Marketplace’s 100+ local craft and plant merchants at Hangar 1 Vodka’s Alameda distillery, which is a converted WWII-era airplane hangar. This Sunday (December 18th) it’s your prefect chance to pick up last minute gifts from local more...
Mount Diablo Beacon Lights at Sunset for Memorial Day
Bay Area Updates, Holidays, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches A joint proclamation was signed on February 25, 2022, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville, to light the Beacon on Mount Diablo to honor veterans on Pearl Harbor Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day from sunset to sunrise, beginning in 2022 and every year thereafter. The lighting of the Beacon more...
SF City Hall Lights Up for Christmas
Christmas, Holidays, San Francisco Every evening at sunset, over 220 state-of-the-art LED lighting fixtures illuminate City Hall’s exterior. Normally, a soft white glow shows off the play of light and shadow on the full façade and dome. Frequently, special plaza façade lighting schemes honor or celebrate events, seasons, and holidays. City Hall will be lit more...
Polk Street’s Brand New 2021 Holiday Festival
Christmas, Community, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, Holidays, Local Highlight, Only in San Francisco, Partner, San Francisco, Sponsored Enjoy a free holiday festival for the neighborhood thanks to the “Discover Polk” nonprofit community benefit district Saturday, December 18th enjoy a free family festival at Helen Wills Park (11a-3p) w/ Santa coming at 11:30a, free bouncy house & party in the park. At night, enjoy carolers from 5:30-7:30p up and down Polk St. btwn California and more...
