This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.


##By type

Film

  • American Indian Film Festival
  • Frameline Film Festival
  • Disposable Film Festival
  • Cinequest Film Festival — San Jose, California
  • Berlin & Beyond Film Festival

Cultural and folk

  • Asian Heritage Street Celebration

Theater and arts

  • Bay Area Circus Arts Festival

Music

See also: List of music festivals in the United States
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
  • Bay Area Indie Music Festival — Martinez, California
  • Bay Area Rock Fest
  • Loveparade
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
  • Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival
  • Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival
  • Day on the Green
  • Treasure Island Music Festival
  • Vans Warped Tour
  • Cotati Jazz Festival — Cotati, California

General and other

  • Bay Area Maker Faire
  • Bay to Breakers
  • Berkeley Jazz Festival
  • BottleRock Napa Valley
  • Burning Man
  • Caltopia
  • Carnaval San Francisco
  • Castro Street Fair
  • Eat Real Festival
  • Exotic Erotic Ball
  • Festival del Sole
  • Fiesta on the Hill - Bernal Heights, San Francisco
  • Fillmore Jazz Festival
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival, September 8&9
  • Gilroy Community Festival - Gilroy, California
  • Gilroy Garlic Festival — Gilroy, California
  • Green Festival
  • Halloween in the Castro
  • Hi/Lo Film Festival
  • Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
  • How Weird Street Faire
  • KFOG KaBoom
  • Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
  • Litquake
  • Maker Faire
  • Midsummer Mozart Festival
  • Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
  • Napa Valley Festival del Sole
  • Noise Pop Festival
  • Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968)
  • Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1969)
  • Opera in the Park hosted by San Francisco Opera
  • Other Minds Music Festival
  • Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival
  • Oyster Festival
  • PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival — Oakland, California
  • Pink Saturday
  • The Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco
  • Russell City Blues Festival
  • San Francisco LovEvolution
  • San Francisco Pop Festival
  • San Francisco Pride
  • San Francisco Blues Festival
  • San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade
  • San Francisco Green Film Festival
  • San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
  • San Francisco International Film Festival
  • San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • San Francisco Jazz Festival
  • San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
  • San Francisco Juneteenth Festival
  • San Francisco Marathon
  • San Francisco Ocean Film Festival
  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival
  • San Jose Holiday Parade
  • San Jose Jazz Festival
  • SF Sketchfest — San Francisco Comedy Sketch Festival
  • S.F. Frozen Film Festival
  • Sierra Nevada World Music Festival
  • Slow Food Nation
  • Solano Avenue Stroll
  • Sonoma International Film Festival
  • Sonoma Valley Film Festival
  • Soundwave Festival
  • Stanford Jazz Workshop
  • Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco
  • Third World Independent Film Festival
  • Wonderfest — San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science

LGBT

  • Folsom Street Fair
  • Gay Pride Parade and Festival