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.
Penguins + Pajamas + Dinosaurs at CAL Academy
Penguins + Pajamas + Dinosaurs California Academy of Sciences Select Dates Beginning February 28 – May 9 Pack your pajamas and your paleontologist hat, you’re invited to a special Penguins […]
Puzzling Adventures Scavenger Hunt
Puzzling Adventures Start & Finish Location 55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA, United StatesConsistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016! Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists […]

World’s Largest Sports Competitions Are Made Mini Across The World!
The world’s largest sports competition has been made mini! The world’s smallest sports scenes can be spotted using thousands of LEGO® bricks and hundreds of LEGO® minifigures at Merlin Entertainments’ […]
Growing Readers Storytime
February 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Free

At Bright Horizons®, setting the stage for a love of reading — and learning — is what we do. Bring your child, family, and friends to experience the magic at our special Storytime event. Everyone is welcome!
Listen to stories from our Growing Readers collection, work on fun activities together, and get to know the center community.
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.