🧒 With kids
- Great Dickens Christmas Fair · Daly City
- Union Square Winter Walk · Union Square
✨ Date night
- Rooftop Holiday Faire at the Fairmont · Nob Hill
- West Coast Craft Night Market · Fort Mason
🎉 With friends
- Telegraph Ave Holiday Street Fair · Berkeley
Christmas village
📷 HarshLight · CC BY 2.0Christmas village · Daly City
Great Dickens Christmas Fair
An indoor Victorian London with costumed performers, pubs, shops and Father Christmas.
🧒 With kids✨ Date night🎉 With friendsWhat's there
- Victorian London recreated indoors at the Cow Palace
- Roasted chestnuts, bangers, fish 'n' chips
- Steam train arrival lobby and live shows
What visitors sayGoogle 4.6 ★ · 7 reviews
Regulars treat it as a yearly ritual — costumed cast, sing-along shows, fish and chips and meat pies. The catch is cost: food, drinks and shops add up fast and some stalls are cash only.
Unique in the country — a whole afternoon of theater, food and shopping.
- 2026
- Five weekends, Nov 21 – Dec 20, 2026 (Nov 21–22, 28–29, Dec 5–6, 12–13, 19–20; also Fri Nov 27), 10 am – 6 pm
- Last season
- Weekends, Nov 22 – Dec 21, 2025
- Cost
- Tickets (early bird from mid-October); parking $20
Getting there and parking
- Cow Palace lot ($20 per vehicle)
Worth knowing
- No pets
- Wheelchair rental $15 half day / $30 full day
Holiday market
IllustrationHoliday market · Union Square
Union Square Winter Walk
Stockton Street closes to traffic for trees, lights, performers and pop-up vendors next to the big Union Square tree.
✨ Date night🎉 With friends🧒 With kidsWhat's there
- Stockton St closed to traffic beside the Union Square tree
- Food trucks and small vendor stalls
- Live music and seating
- Beer garden (21+)
What visitors sayGoogle 4.1 ★ · 14 reviews
People enjoy it as a festive add-on to Union Square — music, food trucks and places to sit; it is more food-truck gathering than craft market, and the artificial turf isn't very wintry.
Worth an evening stroll with the Union Square tree and skating rink — weekdays are calmer.
- Last season
- Dec 13–24, 2025
- Cost
- Free
Getting there and parking
- Powell St BART/Muni or the Central Subway to Union Square/Market St
Worth knowing
- Drinks must stay in the 21+ beer garden
Weekend market
IllustrationWeekend market · Berkeley
Telegraph Ave Holiday Street Fair
Berkeley's long-running pre-Christmas street fair of craftspeople along four blocks of Telegraph.
🎉 With friendsWhat's there
- Four blocks of craft stalls
- Berkeley's student quarter around it
A classic Berkeley pre-Christmas browse — the weekend before Christmas.
- Last season
- Dec 20–21, 2025
- Cost
- Free
Worth knowing
- Two days only
- Illustration
Weekend market · Nob Hill
Rooftop Holiday Faire at the Fairmont
A holiday market on the Fairmont's rooftop garden on Nob Hill: two weekends in 2026 (Thanksgiving weekend and the weekend before Christmas).
✨ Date nightWhat's there
- Market on the Fairmont's rooftop garden
- Nob Hill views
A pretty, small market with Nob Hill views — Thanksgiving weekend or the weekend before Christmas.
- 2026
- Nov 27–29 and Dec 18–20, 2026, 12 – 5 pm
- Last season
- Dec 19–21, 2025
- Entry
- See organizer
Worth knowing
- Two weekends only: Thanksgiving weekend and the weekend before Christmas
- Illustration
Weekend market · Fort Mason
West Coast Craft Night Market
A one-evening edition of West Coast Craft's curated makers' market in the Fort Mason piers.
🎉 With friends✨ Date nightWhat's there
- Curated West Coast makers
- Evening market at Fort Mason
High-quality design gifts in one evening.
- Last season
- Dec 19, 2025
- Entry
- See organizer
Getting there and parking
- Muni 30 or 43 to the Marina; Fort Mason paid lot
Worth knowing
- One evening only