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Outdoors in San Francisco

Upcoming outdoor events in San Francisco: park concerts, festivals, guided walks, open streets days, outdoor markets and seasonal celebrations. Each listing links to the organizer's own page and shows the date we last checked it, and only upcoming dates are shown. Weather in the city changes fast, so check the organizer's page on the day.

Some outdoor favorites are permanent or come back every year. In Golden Gate Park, the JFK Promenade is a stretch of JFK Drive that San Francisco Recreation and Parks keeps vehicle-free permanently, so visitors of all ages and abilities can use the roadway free of car traffic; a car-free route there has existed since 1967. Sunday Streets, the city's open streets program, turns miles of streets into car-free community spaces. The Stern Grove Festival holds free summer concerts at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass brings a free music weekend to Golden Gate Park in early October. Downtown, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival runs free outdoor performances from May through October.

Sources: SF Rec and Park, Sunday Streets SF, Stern Grove Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Outdoors

Scaregrove: Free Halloween at Stern Grove

Fri 30 Oct, 3:00pm
Sigmund Stern GroveFree
Outdoors

Halloween on Hayes: Trick-or-Treat Trail and Free Outdoor Movie

Fri 30 Oct, 4:00pm
Hayes Promenade & PROXYFree
Outdoors

Mission Rock Friday Night Movies: Coco at China Basin Park

Fri 30 Oct, 6:30pm
China Basin Park (Great Lawn)Free
Outdoors

Boo at the Zoo

Sat 31 Oct, 10:00am
San Francisco Zoo & GardensFree with paid daytime zoo admission or membership
Outdoors

Spooky Storytime in the Park at Francisco Park

Sat 31 Oct, 10:30am
Francisco Park, Children's PlaygroundSuggested donation $10+ (no one turned away)
Outdoors

Spooky Garden Reverie in the Portola

Sat 31 Oct, 6:00pm
The Green Between, Burrows Pocket ParkFree (donations encouraged)
Outdoors

Free Yoga in the Park at Outpost Meadow (Sundays Through Nov 22)

Sun 1 Nov, 10:00am
Outpost Meadow, PresidioFree
Outdoors

Conservatory of Flowers Free First Tuesday

Tue 3 Nov, 10:00am
Conservatory of FlowersFree
Outdoors

Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Opens

Wed 4 Nov
Union Square$22 with skate rental; $17 ages 8 and under
Outdoors

SF Zoo Resident Free Day

Wed 4 Nov, 9:00am
San Francisco Zoo & GardensFree for SF residents
Outdoors

ZooLights at the SF Zoo (Wed–Sun Nights, Through Jan 3)

Fri 6 Nov, 5:30pm
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens$30 adults, $21 children ($3 off for zoo members)
Outdoors

Día de los Muertos and Diwali Festival at Presidio Tunnel Tops

Sat 7 Nov, 10:00am
Presidio Tunnel TopsFree (registration on the event page)
Outdoors

Feathered Friends: Birdwatching & Nature Art for Families at SF Botanical Garden

Sun 15 Nov, 8:30am
San Francisco Botanical Garden (Main Gate)$40 (one adult and one child)
Outdoors

Lightscape

Fri 20 Nov, 5:00pm
San Francisco Botanical GardenFrom $20 kids, $32 adults
Outdoors

San Francisco Botanical Garden Free Thanksgiving Day

Thu 26 Nov, 7:30am
San Francisco Botanical GardenFree
Outdoors

San Francisco Turkey Trot

Thu 26 Nov, 8:00am
Golden Gate ParkSee registration page
Outdoors

Civic Center Plaza Tree Lighting

Wed 2 Dec, 4:00pm
Civic Center PlazaFree
Outdoors

PIER 39 Christmas Tree Lighting

Thu 3 Dec
PIER 39Free
Outdoors

Let’s Glow SF: Free Downtown Holiday Projection Festival (Dec 4–13, 2026)

Fri 4 Dec
Downtown San Francisco (six buildings)Free

Recently Ended

Past events in this category. Each page says when the next date is announced.

Cite this page: Project SF, “Outdoors in San Francisco”, projectsf.com/event-type/outdoors/.