Here is a list of special kid-friendly events happening in the San Francisco Bay Area in September! These events are not weekly or monthly recurring events, but are unique and special events happening only this year, or yearly.

This list is updated at least weekly in the month of September, and when the month is over, will start updating again the following year! Check back often to see what’s happening in San Francisco Bay Area that you can bring your kids to!

If you are on Facebook and want to get weekly updates of these events within a Facebook group, join our San Francisco Family Travel + Activities group! Every Monday, there is a thread that lists these kinds of events with specific links, where members can add events too!

Are you more of a Google Calendar kind of person? We have one of those too! Add this calendar to your Google Calendar to get these events straight in your calendar.

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🔩 Looking for any signs of life out there… 👀 ⠀ /////⠀ We are still here! đŸ™‹đŸ»â€â™€ïž How was your summer? ⠀ /////⠀ We have been busy traveling and exploring around and can’t wait to share all the fun places we visited with our kids and any lessons we learned along the way. First stop, Big Sur! ⠀ ////⠀ Pfeiffer State Campgrounds was our first camping experience as a family of 4 and it was actually really easy and fun! We spent Friday night in Salinas, since we sure wasn’t going to try to set up our tent in the dark for the first time in 3 years after work! We got to the campground early Saturday and camped for one night. Yes, it was a lot of packing and unpacking for just one night of camping, but we are glad we did it this way to “test out the waters”. Now we are hooked and can’t wait for more. Decided not to unpack the car and thinking of going somewhere again in a week or so… (ok, definitely partly because we are too lazy to unpack 😂 ) Any suggestions of last minute camping sites in the Bay Area!? ⠀

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Street & Other Festivals in September

San Francisco

Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival

Sunset District Community Festival at West Sunset Playground

BaySplash: Free Day of Science, Arts & Food

City Kids Family Fair

Cole Valley Fair

Folsom Street Fair

Kids Carnival at the Palace of Fine Arts

Bay Area

Millbrae Art & Wine Festival

Castro Valley Fall Festival 

Mountain View Art & Wine Festival 

Solano Stroll & Parade

Eat Real Festival in Oakland

Cupertino Carnival

Lafayette Art & Wine Festival

Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival

Rockridge “Out & About” Street Festival in Oakland

Moraga Pear & Wine Festival

Sausalito’s 40th Annual Chili Cook-Off

Folsom Renaissance Faire

Pacific Coast Fog Fest

Petaluma Oyster Fest

Capitola Beach Festival

Candypalooza at the Jelly Belly Factory

“La Madonna del Lume” Fishing Boat Parade at Fisherman’s Wharf

Mill Valley’s Community Block Party

Music & Cultural Events in September in the Bay Area

San Francisco

People in Plazas Concerts

Opera in the Park at Golden Gate Park

Festa Coloniale Italiana in North Beach

Armenian Food Festival & Bazaar at SF State

Autumn Moon Festival in Chinatown (SF)

Fiesta De Las Américas in the Mission

San Francisco Greek Festival

“Chinatown at Twilight” Friday Night Festival 

San Francisco Osaka Matsuri

Friday Nights at DeYoung starts again!

Middle Eastern Food Festival in SF

San Francisco Black Family Day Celebration at Hamilton Park

Tricycle Music Festival

Bay Area

Belmont Greek Festival

Sausalito Art Festival

Kings Mountain Art Fair in the Redwoods in Woodside

Morgan Hill Blues Festival

Lebanese Festival in Redwood City

Brazilian Day & Lavagem Festival in Berkeley

Mole & Mariachi Festival in Santa Cruz

Oakland Pride Parade & Festival 

Point Richmond Music Festival

Petaluma Piano Festival & Honky-Tonk Piano Competition

Music and Market Summer Concerts in Concord

Mariachi Festival in Hayward

Middle Eastern & Greek Food Festival in Milpitas

Black-Eyed Pea Festival Oakland

San Jose Tet & Moon Festival

Romanian Festival SF Bay Area in Hayward

Montara Art and Music Festival

Salsa Festival in Redwood City

Russian Festival in Saratoga

San Jose’s Little Italy Street Festival

Mexican “Celebrando Comunidad en la Placita” in Berkeley

Outdoor Kid-Friendly Events in September in the Bay Area

San Francisco

Coastal Cleanup Day (All over California)

Rolex Big Boat Yacht Racing

Model Boats on Parade at Golden Gate Park

Black Tie Beach Party at Ocean Beach

Off the Grid Twilight Campfire Party at the Presidio

Bay Area

Orinda Classic Car Show 

Northern California Dragon Boat Festival in Oakland

Electric Vehicle Rally and Show Cupertino

“Viva CalleSJ” Six Miles of Car-Free Streets in San Jose

Seasonal & Fall Kid-Friendly Events in the Bay Area in September

San Francisco

Oktoberfest by the Bay (Saturday Day and Sunday Kid-Friendly)

Harvest Festival and Sukkot at the Ferry Building

Southeast Asian Harvest Festival: Street Soccer & Chinese Martial Arts

Bay Area

Magical Glass Pumpkin Patch (not for kids who like to touch and drop everything. :))

Downtown Redwood City Oktoberfest (Great for all ages on certain days)

Eastlake Annual Moon Festival in Oakland

Lantern Festival at Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose

Great America Pumpkin Fest

Harvest Festival in Palo Alto

Annie’s Annuals Fall Party in Richmond (the city)

Oaktoberfest in the Dimond (in Oakland) – Kids Area

There you have it!

We usually get lots of sunshine in September – and it’s the beginning of the pumpkin season!! If you know us, we love love love love this season. We go crazy with the pumpkin everything. We are one of those people. So if you follow us on IG, get ready for a very orange feed!

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