Join us for a FREE Lunar Celebration sponsored by Stanford Medicine Children’s Health on Sunday, February 2 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Participants of all ages can try their hand at traditional calligraphy, origami, and auspicious crafts for all ages!
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! San Francisco
Winter is here and there’s no better to explore the fascinating world at Ripleys’s Believe It or Not! San Francisco, a must-see attraction local to the Bay Area! Encounter unforgettable artifacts and interactive exhibits you have to see to believe.
SF’s Gorgeous Magnolia Bloom 2025 in Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park’s gorgeous magnolias are expected to have their peak bloom a little later in February.
One of San Francisco’s most breathtaking natural marvels, the annual bloom of more than 200 rare and historic magnolias with trees reaching 80 feet, is typically at its peak from January through March at the SF Botanical Garden.
2025 Napa Lighted Art Festival (Jan. 18 – Feb. 16)
The Napa Lighted Art Festival is a celebration of creative arts, technology and lights, and supports innovative techniques using light and light technologies as a growing art medium. This walkable outdoor experience is FREE in Downtown Napa featuring 11 lighted art sculptures for five weeks and projection artwork on three iconic downtown buildings for the first nine nights of the festival. Bring the family and experience the magic of lighted art at the 2025 Napa Lighted Art Festival!
Sausalito Crab Festival – February 1, 2025
The Sausalito Sustainable Waterfront Association (SSWA) is excited to announce the First Annual Sausalito Crab Festival, a community-focused event celebrating and supporting Sausalito’s hardworking crab fishing fleet!
The festival will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Fish Restaurant in Clipper Yacht Harbor, marking the start of crab season with a day of delicious food, music, and community spirit.
2025 San Jose Lunar New Year “Tet Festival”
3rd Annual Oakland Lantern Festival + Night Market
Sunday Feb 9, 2025, 3-8PM will be our 3rd Annual Lantern Festival in Oakland Chinatown!
The year of the wood snake is a magical time of wisdom and collective transformation ✨🐍— come to Chinatown to celebrate the new year in an evening of delicious foods, dancing, music, poetry, healing spaces , alongside an incredible maker and night market to bring in the new year grounded in intention and community.
The Pacific Renaissance Plaza courtyard will be lit up with lanterns on bamboo sticks plus have giant red scrolls hanging. There will be about 25 vendors with traditional lantern festival foods like herbal soups and Chinese desserts, plus here are many chef entrepreneurs showcasing their latest dishes from different immigrant culturas in Oakland including Palestinian/Cuba (falafels, harissa wings and yucaa fries), Panama (tamales), Mexico (Oaxacan cacao) and more plus vendors focusing on healing arts.
SFMOMA’s “Free Family Day” Free Museum Day – February 9
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) welcomes families and inter-generational audiences to the museum for its Free Family Day on February 9, 2025.
February 2025 Theme: Free Family Day; Seventh-Inning Stretch
Celebrate all the creative ways that fans show their love for a team, player or artist through art making, performances and more.
Learn more and reserve your tickets>>
2025 Chinese New Year Parade & Fireworks – February 15
Nowhere in the country will you see a lunar new year parade with more gorgeous floats, elaborate costumes, ferocious lions, exploding firecrackers, and of course the newly crowned Miss Chinatown U.S.A. and her court.
A crowd favorite will be the new and spectacular 288-foot Golden Dragon (“Gum Lung”). It takes a team of over 180 men and women from the martial arts group White Crane to carry this dragon throughout the streets of San Francisco.
