Thirty-five San Francisco blocks had a permit to close for trick-or-treating or a neighborhood party on Halloween night. The Sunset/Parkside had the most closed blocks, seven, and Bernal Heights closed the most street segments, eleven. Family Halloween events are listed too.
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and in San Francisco much of it happens on streets that neighbors close themselves. Every one of those closures needs an SFMTA permit, so the permit data is the most reliable count of where the city will be trick-or-treating. This page counts them by neighborhood, adds the family Halloween events we have checked, and was re-run every Monday through Halloween. It is now frozen at its final count.
Halloween-Night Street Closures by Neighborhood
- Sunset/Parkside7
- Glen Park4
- Bernal Heights3
- Mission3
- Inner Sunset3
- Haight Ashbury2
- Inner Richmond2
- Lone Mountain/USF1
- Marina1
- Outer Mission1
- Potrero Hill1
- Twin Peaks1
- Castro/Upper Market1
- Noe Valley1
- Outer Richmond1
- Presidio Heights1
- Visitacion Valley1
- West of Twin Peaks1
| Neighborhood | Closures | Street segments |
|---|---|---|
| Sunset/Parkside | 7 | 7 |
| Glen Park | 4 | 11 |
| Bernal Heights | 3 | 11 |
| Mission | 3 | 11 |
| Inner Sunset | 3 | 3 |
| Haight Ashbury | 2 | 9 |
| Inner Richmond | 2 | 2 |
| Lone Mountain/USF | 1 | 4 |
| Marina | 1 | 4 |
| Outer Mission | 1 | 2 |
| Potrero Hill | 1 | 2 |
| Twin Peaks | 1 | 2 |
| Castro/Upper Market | 1 | 1 |
| Noe Valley | 1 | 1 |
| Outer Richmond | 1 | 1 |
| Presidio Heights | 1 | 1 |
| Visitacion Valley | 1 | 1 |
| West of Twin Peaks | 1 | 1 |
Neighborhoods are the city’s 41 Analysis Neighborhoods, which draw some lines differently from everyday use, so a block locals call Noe Valley can count toward the Mission here.
Family Halloween Events We Have Checked
Each of these was checked against the organizer’s or venue’s own page, most recently on . Details, RSVP links and tips are in the Halloween with kids guide.
| Event | When | Neighborhood | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clancy's Pumpkins (pumpkin patch) | 2 Oct to 31 Oct, Daily 9am-9pm | Inner Sunset | Varies |
| Randall Museum Family Halloween Day | Sat 24 Oct, 10am-2pm | Castro (Corona Heights) | Free |
| SuperNatural at Cal Academy | Sat 24 Oct, 6:30-9pm | Golden Gate Park | Adults $60, ages 3-17 $45, 2 and under free |
| Trick-or-Treat at the Ferry Building | Thu 29 Oct, 4-6pm | Financial District | Free |
| Scaregrove at Stern Grove | Fri 30 Oct, 3-9pm | Sunset/Parkside | Free |
| Boo at the Zoo | Sat 31 Oct, 10am-3pm | Lakeshore | Free with paid zoo admission |
| Chinatown Halloween Festival | Sat 31 Oct, 11am-3pm | Chinatown | Free |
| Fillmore After Dark Halloween Night Market | Sat 31 Oct, 4-9pm | Fillmore | Free |
| Halloween Hoopla at Yerba Buena Gardens | Sat 31 Oct, Noon-3pm | SoMa | Free (RSVP) |
The Rest of the Fall Calendar
Between 1 October and 2 November our events calendar has 117 events, 87 of them family-friendly and 67 of those listed as free (a few with an RSVP, a residency condition or a ferry ticket). These are events we have picked and checked, not every event in the city, so read them as a guide to what is worth doing rather than a census.
- SoMa12
- Mission District8
- Golden Gate Park8
- Hayes Valley8
- Sunset District5
- Financial District5
- Mission Bay4
- North Beach3
- Lakeshore3
- Fisherman's Wharf3
How We Built This
Sources
- Temporary Street Closures (DataSF 8×25-yybr), from the SFMTA, updated daily. It holds only permitted closures.
- Analysis Neighborhoods (DataSF j2bu-swwd), for neighborhood boundaries.
- The Project SF events calendar (also published as events.json), for the family events, each checked against its organizer’s page.
Method
- We keep permits of type “Special Event” whose closure covers and group their street segments by permit case, so each closure counts once.
- We keep residential closures only: trick-or-treat streets, Halloween block parties and neighborhood parties, using the same rules as our street fair calendar. Public events such as night markets, farmers’ markets and races are left out of the count.
- Each closure is placed in a neighborhood by the midpoint of its first closed street segment.
- We re-pulled the permits every Monday through Halloween; the final pull was on . The page is frozen at that count.
What This Data Cannot Tell You
- This counts permits, not parties. A permit is what makes a closure official, but it does not say how busy the block will be or how many houses will hand out candy.
- The count is a snapshot of the permits as of , taken after Halloween: permits kept arriving through October, so the early counts were low, and the SFMTA data may drop closures that have ended. We do not have a comparable count for past years yet; the SFMTA data only holds current and upcoming closures.
- Family events are the ones on our calendar, not every event in the city.
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Project SF (2026). Halloween in San Francisco, by the Numbers. Updated . https://projectsf.com/data/sf-halloween-by-the-numbers/
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Update Log
- : First published: 27 residential Halloween-night closures in 13 neighborhoods, from permits as of .
- : Re-run: 30 residential Halloween-night closures in 15 neighborhoods, from permits as of . Calendar counts updated. Thrill-O-Ween removed (cancelled by Chase Center); the Ferry Building trick-or-treat is 4-6pm, not 5-7pm; Scaregrove and Boo at the Zoo added.
- : Re-run: 30 residential Halloween-night closures in 15 neighborhoods, from permits as of , unchanged from 12 October. Calendar counts updated: 96 events in the window, 71 family events, 55 of them free.
- : Re-run: 30 residential Halloween-night closures in 15 neighborhoods, from permits as of , unchanged from 12 October. Calendar counts updated: 111 events in the window, 82 family events, 64 of them free.
- : Frozen at the final count after Halloween: 35 residential Halloween-night closures in 18 neighborhoods covering 74 street segments, from permits as of . Calendar counts for 1 October to 2 November: 117 events, 87 family events, 67 of them free. The page will not be refreshed again.