Saturday, September 19 · San Francisco
Things to Do in San Francisco, Checked.
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, Sep 19–20
Saturday, September 19
San Francisco Greek Food Festival
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Mission DistrictFree entry
Touch a Truck SF
Sat · 9 am · Stonestown (old UA Cinema lot)
San Francisco$12–$20
Coastal Cleanup Day at Ocean Beach
Sat · 9 am · Ocean Beach
Richmond DistrictFree
City Kids Family Fair
Sat · 10 am · 445 Church Street
San FranciscoFree, RSVP required
Secondhand Saturday at the Sunset Community Mercantile
Sat · 10 am · Sunset Community Mercantile
Sunset DistrictFree
Muni Heritage Weekend
San Francisco Railway Museum
Financial DistrictFree
Access to Adventure Day
Sat · 11 am · Crissy Field Center, Presidio
PresidioFree
Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival
Grant Avenue, Chinatown
ChinatownFree
King of the Streets Lowrider Parade & Car Show
Sat · 12 pm · Mission Street
Mission DistrictFree
TideFest at Ocean Beach
Sat · 1 pm · Great Highway at Taraval Street
Sunset DistrictFree
Sunday, September 20
San Francisco Greek Food Festival
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Mission DistrictFree entry
Muni Heritage Weekend
San Francisco Railway Museum
Financial DistrictFree
Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival
Grant Avenue, Chinatown
ChinatownFree
35th Annual Fiesta on the Hill
Sun · 10 am · Cortland Avenue, Bernal Heights
San FranciscoFree
Haight Ashbury Street Fair
Sun · 11 am · Haight Street
San FranciscoFree
Golden Gate Park Band: Irish Celebration
Sun · 1 pm · Spreckels Temple of Music (Bandshell)
Golden Gate ParkFree
On All Weekend
Treasures of the Pharaohs
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park$40 adults (kids discounted)
Flower Piano
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate ParkFree–$18 (free for SF residents)
Sunset Fridays at the SF Zoo
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
Sunset District$14 (kids 11 & under free)
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
Ferry Building Plaza
Financial DistrictFree
Heart of the City Farmers Market
UN Plaza, Civic Center
Hayes ValleyFree
Free Shakespeare in the Park: Antony and Cleopatra
Sep 19–27 · Sue Bierman Park
Financial DistrictFree
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.
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18 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
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
Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley is what happens when you take down a freeway.
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
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
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
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
Fisherman's Wharf
Fisherman's Wharf is the most visited and least beloved part of San Francisco, and both facts are fair.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
- SoMa13 events · 8 places
- Golden Gate Park14 events · 4 places
- Hayes Valley13 events · 4 places
- Financial District9 events · 7 places
- Marina8 events · 5 places
- Mission District4 events · 9 places
- Sunset District9 events · 4 places
- Chinatown5 events · 5 places
- Richmond District5 events · 4 places
- Fisherman's Wharf4 events · 4 places
- North Beach4 events · 4 places
- Presidio4 events · 4 places
- Potrero Hill1 events · 6 places
- South Beach3 events · 4 places
- Nob Hill0 events · 5 places
- Noe Valley0 events · 4 places
- Pacific Heights0 events · 4 places
- Russian Hill0 events · 4 places
Guides
Local Know-How, Freshly Checked
Halloween in San Francisco for Families (2026 Guide)
Where to trick-or-treat in San Francisco, free family Halloween events for 2026, pumpkin patches in the city and tips for a fog-proof Halloween night.
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The Best Views in San Francisco
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Updated Sep 18
Best Burrito in San Francisco: La Taqueria vs El Farolito
Updated Sep 18
Best Dungeness Crab and Cioppino in San Francisco
Updated Sep 18
Best Sourdough Bread in San Francisco: Where to Buy a Loaf
Updated Sep 18
Fisherman’s Wharf with Kids, Minus the Tourist Traps
Updated Sep 18
Chinatown and North Beach with Kids: A Walking Day
Updated Sep 18
The Presidio with Kids: A Complete Guide
Updated Sep 18Original 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
43
Street Fair Calendar
street fairs, festivals and night markets with a city street-closure permit through December. Confirmed, not rumored.
Tracker
5
SF Gallery Index
galleries closed their spaces in the past year, 4 at Minnesota Street Project. 71 still open, with what is on now.
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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