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.

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