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Things to Do in San Francisco, Updated Every Week.
What's on this weekend, where to eat, drink coffee and see art, and which places have actually closed. Every date, price and address is checked against the source.
This weekend
What's on, Oct 9–11
Friday, October 9
Fleet Week Parade of Ships
Fri · 11 am · San Francisco waterfront (Marina Green)
MarinaFree
Fleet Week Air Show Featuring the Blue Angels
Oct 9–11 · Northern Waterfront (Marina Green)
MarinaFree to watch (reserved seats extra)
Fridays on Front Street: Fleet Week Yacht Rock Block Party
Fri · 4 pm · Front Street (between Sacramento Street and California Street)
Financial DistrictFree
Chinatown Night Market
Fri · 5 pm · Grant Avenue, Chinatown
ChinatownFree
Sunset Fridays at the SF Zoo
Fri · 5 pm · San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
Lakeshore$14 (kids 11 & under free)
Ply: Hernan Diaz (Litquake)
Fri · 7 pm · BATS Improv Theatre
Marina$15 general admission; $40 with signed book
Saturday, October 10
Fleet Week Air Show Featuring the Blue Angels
Oct 9–11 · Northern Waterfront (Marina Green)
MarinaFree to watch (reserved seats extra)
Fleet Week K9 Heroes
Sat · 10 am · Duboce Park
Haight-AshburyFree
Fleet Fest
Oct 10–11 · Fisherman's Wharf & Pier 27
Fisherman's WharfFree
Bollywood Garba at Union Square
Sat · 11 am · Union Square
Financial DistrictFree
MoAD Free Second Saturday
Sat · 11 am · Museum of the African Diaspora
SoMaFree
Follow the Music: Emerging Artists Festival
Sat · 1 pm · Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens
SoMaFree
SOMA Pilipinas Pride: MAKIBEKI
Sat · 1 pm · SFMOMA
SoMaFree
Jacob Collier: The Light For Days Tour at The Castro Theatre
Sat · 8 pm · The Castro Theatre
CastroSold out
Sunday, October 11
Fleet Week Air Show Featuring the Blue Angels
Oct 9–11 · Northern Waterfront (Marina Green)
MarinaFree to watch (reserved seats extra)
Fleet Fest
Oct 10–11 · Fisherman's Wharf & Pier 27
Fisherman's WharfFree
YBG Dance Day
Sun · 10 am · Yerba Buena Gardens
SoMaFree
Inner Sunset Flea Market
Sun · 10 am · Irving Street
Sunset DistrictFree
7th Annual Butchertown Jazz Festival
Sun · 12 pm · Lane Street between Underwood and Van Dyke
Bayview-Hunters PointFree
Italian Heritage Parade
Sun · 12:30 pm · Fisherman's Wharf to Washington Square
North BeachFree
On All Weekend
Treasures of the Pharaohs
Tue–Sun 9:30am–5:15pm · through Jan 31 · de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park$40 adults
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
Tue & Thu 10am–2pm, Sat 8am–2pm · through Dec 31 · Ferry Building Plaza
Financial DistrictFree
Heart of the City Farmers Market
Wed & Sun 7am–4pm · through Dec 31 · Fulton Plaza, Civic Center
Hayes ValleyFree
SF State Observatory Public Nights (Wed–Fri, Through Dec 4)
Wed–Fri 7pm–9:30pm · through Dec 4 · SF State Observatory, Thornton Hall
San FranciscoOpen to the public; no admission price listed
Clancy’s Pumpkin Patch
Daily 9am–9pm · through Oct 31 · Clancy's Pumpkins & Christmas Trees
Sunset DistrictVaries
Fleet Week Ship Tours
Oct 7–12 · Piers 27 & 35
Fisherman's WharfFree
Find your thing
San Francisco, by What You Love
Plan my day
A Day Out, Built in One Tap
Pick a neighborhood and a mood. We put together a day from the places in our directory and the events on our calendar: coffee, something to see, lunch, a walk and something for the evening.
Your day will appear here. Every stop links to a page we have checked. Opening hours change, so tap through before you go.
- Coffee in 6 shops
- Museums and galleries in the directory
- Events from our calendar
Neighborhoods
Explore the City, Block by Block
Boundaries: DataSF Analysis Neighborhoods. Pins mark the neighborhoods we cover.
Tap a neighborhood
29 Neighborhoods, One City
Hover or tap a pin to see what's on and what's worth it there.
Neighborhood
SoMa
SoMa, short for South of Market, is downtown's engine room: the convention center, the ballpark, the big museums, and the headquarters of several companies you have heard of, all on wide blocks that were industrial a century ago and are half construction site now.
Neighborhood
Financial District
The Financial District is the city's office core, a canyon of towers between Market Street and the waterfront, built on Gold Rush landfill over what used to be Yerba Buena Cove.
Neighborhood
Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley is what happens when you take down a freeway.
Neighborhood
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is 1,017 acres of what used to be sand dunes, laid out from 1871 and planted into existence by hand.
Neighborhood
Marina
The Marina is flat, which in San Francisco is close to a miracle.
Neighborhood
Mission District
The Mission is the warmest, sunniest neighborhood in San Francisco, and that is not a marketing line: Twin Peaks and Bernal Hill physically block the fog, so this side of town can run ten to twenty degrees warmer than the Sunset on the same afternoon. It grew up around Mission San Francisco de Asís, founded in 1776 and still standing on 16th Street, and it has been the heart of the city's Latino community for generations.
Neighborhood
Fisherman's Wharf
Fisherman's Wharf is the most visited and least beloved part of San Francisco, and both facts are fair.
Neighborhood
Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill is a sunny hilltop of small houses and big views, a neighborhood that grew up around shipyards and light industry and was settled by Russian and Slovenian families after 1906, when the hill's bedrock spared it from the worst of the quake.
Neighborhood
Chinatown
San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest in North America, established in the 1840s and rebuilt after 1906 in a deliberately ornamental style that was partly a survival strategy: make it a destination and the city cannot push the community out.
Neighborhood
Richmond District
The Richmond runs from the Presidio to Ocean Beach in a flat grid of Edwardians and stucco houses, built after 1906 on what maps used to call the Outside Lands.
Neighborhood
North Beach
North Beach is the old Italian quarter and the city's literary neighborhood, the place where the Beats read poetry upstairs at City Lights and where you can still buy a salami from a counter that has been selling them since 1896.
Neighborhood
Sunset District
The Sunset is the city's biggest residential district: mile after mile of pastel rowhouses laid over sand dunes between the park and Lake Merced, built mostly between the 1920s and 1950s, and now one of the most diverse and family-heavy parts of San Francisco.
Neighborhood
Pacific Heights
Pacific Heights is the grand one: mansions on a ridge between Union and California Streets, built from the 1870s by people who wanted to be above the city and stayed there.
Neighborhood
Presidio
The Presidio is not really a neighborhood, it is a 1,500-acre national park inside the city that happens to have houses, restaurants and a bowling alley in it.
Neighborhood
Nob Hill
Nob Hill is the summit the railroad barons built on, and then lost: the 1906 fire took every mansion but one, and the grand hotels and Grace Cathedral went up in their place.
Neighborhood
Russian Hill
Russian Hill is steep, quiet and residential, a hill of Edwardian apartment buildings and hidden garden lanes with some of the best free views in the city.
Neighborhood
South Beach
South Beach is the newest neighborhood on this list: a stretch of the waterfront south of the Bay Bridge that was rail yards and piers until the 1990s, and is now mid-rise apartments, a ballpark and a promenade.
Neighborhood
Lakeshore
Lakeshore wraps around Lake Merced in the southwest corner of the city.
Neighborhood
Mission Bay
Mission Bay is San Francisco's newest neighborhood, built on former rail yards south of Mission Creek.
Neighborhood
Noe Valley
Noe Valley sits in a bowl behind Twin Peaks, which is why it gets sun when half the city does not, and why it filled up with families.
Neighborhood
Castro
The Castro centers on Castro Street between Market and 19th streets, with Harvey Milk Plaza at the Castro and Market corner.
Neighborhood
Bayview-Hunters Point
Bayview-Hunters Point is the city's southeastern corner, along the bay south of Islais Creek.
Neighborhood
Civic Center & Tenderloin
The Main Library and the Asian Art Museum face Civic Center Plaza, across from City Hall, and host some of the city's best free events for families.
Neighborhood
Haight-Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury centers on Haight Street, known around the world for the 1967 Summer of Love, and sits beside the eastern end of Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle.
Neighborhood
Excelsior
The Excelsior sits in the southern part of the city, with Mission Street as its commercial main street.
Neighborhood
Western Addition & Fillmore
The Western Addition lies west of Van Ness Avenue and takes in the Fillmore, once called the Harlem of the West for its jazz clubs, and Cathedral Hill.
Neighborhood
Glen Park
Glen Park is a small, village-like neighborhood around Diamond and Chenery streets, with Glen Park BART station at its edge.
Neighborhood
Lone Mountain & USF
Lone Mountain/USF is the hilltop campus of the University of San Francisco and the blocks around it, just north of the Panhandle.
Neighborhood
West of Twin Peaks
West of Twin Peaks is a group of quiet residential neighborhoods on the west slope below Twin Peaks, including West Portal, St.
- SoMa18 events · 8 places
- Financial District10 events · 7 places
- Hayes Valley13 events · 4 places
- Golden Gate Park11 events · 4 places
- Marina9 events · 5 places
- Mission District2 events · 9 places
- Fisherman's Wharf5 events · 4 places
- Potrero Hill3 events · 6 places
- Chinatown3 events · 5 places
- Richmond District4 events · 4 places
- North Beach3 events · 4 places
- Sunset District4 events · 3 places
- Pacific Heights2 events · 4 places
- Presidio2 events · 4 places
- Nob Hill0 events · 5 places
- Russian Hill1 events · 4 places
- South Beach1 events · 4 places
- Lakeshore3 events · 1 places
- Mission Bay4 events · 0 places
- Noe Valley0 events · 4 places
- Castro3 events · 0 places
- Bayview-Hunters Point2 events · 0 places
- Civic Center & Tenderloin2 events · 0 places
- Haight-Ashbury2 events · 0 places
- Excelsior1 events · 0 places
- Western Addition & Fillmore1 events · 0 places
- Glen Park0 events · 0 places
- Lone Mountain & USF0 events · 0 places
- West of Twin Peaks0 events · 0 places
Guides
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Updated Oct 5
Best Dungeness Crab and Cioppino in San Francisco
Updated Oct 5
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Updated Oct 5
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Updated Oct 5
Best Bakery and Croissant in San Francisco
Updated Oct 5Original data
San Francisco, by the Numbers
Our own datasets, built from city open data and venues' own pages. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Original research
1.42
Openings & Closings Index
businesses opened in SF for every one that closed in 2025, up from 1.30. By neighborhood, from the city register.
Tracker
39
Closed & Moved
places are not where the guides say. Every closure checked by address against the city register, dated and sourced.
Original research
52%
Museum & Attraction Transparency Index
of 40 SF museums and attractions publish all five basics a family needs: price, hours, access, directions and child prices.
Calendar
10
Free Museum Days
SF museums and attractions with a regular free day for everyone, plus 8 that are always free. Checked on each venue's own site.
Tool
6
Day-Out Cost Calculator
SF attractions don't publish a price you can see without booking. Build a day out and see what it costs, and what nobody tells you.
Dataset
93%
Every SF Park, Compared
median city maintenance score. From 71% to 100%: every park's score, play areas and dog areas in one table.
Calendar
29
Street Fair Calendar
street fairs, festivals and night markets with a city street-closure permit through December. Confirmed, not rumored.
Tracker
4
SF Gallery Index
galleries closed their spaces in the past year, 4 at Minnesota Street Project. 71 still open, with what is on now.
Seasonal
27
Halloween by the Numbers
blocks with a city permit to close for trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Counted by neighborhood, never listed.
Closed & moved
39 Places Are Not Where the Guides Say They Are.
We check closures against the city business register, by address, and record what is at the address now.
- MovedHaines GalleryUnion Square
- MovedScott Nichols GalleryUnion Square
- ClosedCartoon Art MuseumFisherman's Wharf
- ClosedDel PopoloNob Hill
- DemolishedVaillancourt FountainFinancial District
- ClosedJack Fischer GalleryDogpatch
- MovedInstitute of Contemporary Art San FranciscoFinancial District
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- EventOct 6 - de Young Free First Tuesday
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How we work
Checked, Dated, Independent.
From the Source
Dates, prices and addresses come from the organizer's, venue's or agency's own page. If it isn't published, we say so.
Dated, and Re-Checked
Guides show when they were last checked, and our calendar is reviewed twice a week.
Free to Be Listed
Listings are free, and no recommendation has been bought. When we get something wrong, we correct it in public.
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