# List of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area

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

## By type
### Film

* American Indian Film Festival
* Arab Film Festival
* Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
* Cinequest Film Festival
* Disposable Film Festival
* Frameline Film Festival
* Hi/Lo Film Festival
* International Black Women's Film Festival
* Mill Valley Film Festival
* Palo Alto International Film Festival
* San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
* 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 Jewish Film Festival
* San Francisco Ocean Film Festival
* San Francisco Silent Film Festival
* Sonoma International Film Festival (AKA Sonoma Valley Film Festival)
* Superfest International Disability Film Festival
* Temescal Street Cinema
* Third World Independent Film Festival

### Cultural and folk

* Asian Heritage Street Celebration

### Theater and arts

* Bay Area Circus Arts Festival

### Music

* Bay Area Indie Music Festival - Martinez, California
* Bay Area Rock Fest
* Bear Valley Music Festival
* Cotati Jazz Festival - Cotati, California
* Day on the Green
* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
* Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival
* Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival
* Loveparade
* Music at Tateuchi
* Treasure Island Music Festival
* Vans Warped Tour

### 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
* Gilroy Community Festival - Gilroy, California
* Gilroy Garlic Festival - Gilroy, California
* Green Festival
* Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
* Halloween in the Castro
* How Weird Street Faire
* KFOG KaBoom
* Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
* Litquake
* Maker Faire
* Midsummer Mozart Festival
* Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
* Mushroom Mardi Gras 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 Blues Festival
* San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade
* San Francisco Jazz Festival
* San Francisco LovEvolution
* San Francisco Juneteenth Festival
* San Francisco Marathon
* San Francisco Pop Festival
* San Francisco Pride
* San Jose Holiday Parade
* San Jose Jazz Festival
* SF Sketchfest - San Francisco comedy sketch festival
* Sierra Nevada World Music Festival
* Slow Food Nation
* Solano Avenue Stroll
* Soundwave Festival
* Stanford Jazz Workshop
* Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco
* Wonderfest - San Francisco Bay Area festival of science

### LGBT

* Folsom Street Fair
* Gay Pride Parade and Festival
* San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival