Easter in San Francisco brings a bountiful array of exciting parties, egg hunts, brunches, and unforgettable activities every single year. Here we’ve pulled some of 2025’s most highly-anticipated Easter events this spring, from Dolores Park’s famous Hunky Jesus Contest to Salesforce Park’s lively Spring Fling. Whether you’re seeking a kid-friendly egg hunt or an adult-friendly party, here’s how to celebrate Easter San Francisco style.
Of course, it’s not lost on us that Easter and 420 are on the same day this year—if you’re looking for 420 events, check out our guide here.
1. Easter in the Park/Hunky Jesus Contest
Our famous irreverent drag nuns, AKA the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are back with another rendition of Easter In The Park, one of the most well-attended Easter activities in San Francisco. They kick off the day with a Children’s Easter, including music, an egg drop, games, and performances. From noon to 4 pm, things will get rowdier with the famous Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary, and Easter Bonnet contests. Contestants show up in their hunkiest and foxiest Biblical costumes and compete for the grand title.
🗓️ When: Sunday, April 20th, 2025
📍 Where: Mission Dolores Park, 566 Dolores St, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on Facebook
2. NorCal Cherry Blossom Festival
The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival will be celebrating its 57th year on two weekends this April. Head to Japantown Peace Plaza for Japanese cultural performances, a Grand Parade, traditional art, live music, food, and much more.
🗓️ When: April 12-13 and 19-20, 2025
📍 Where: Japantown Peace Plaza, 1610 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94115
🌐 Learn more: NorCal Cherry Blossom Festival
3. Spring Fling at Crocker Amazon Park
SF Rec & Parks presents a kids’ Easter egg hunt at Crocker Amazon Playground on Saturday. Join them for a lively event with carnival rides, live entertainment, delicious food, an archery range, a Bookmobile, and arts and crafts.
🗓️ When: Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 11am-4 pm
📍 Where: Crocker Amazon Playground, 799 Moscow St, San Francisco, CA 94112
🌐 Learn more: SF Rec & Parks
4. Kids’ Easter Egg Hunt at Fort Mason
Bring a basket for this kid’s Easter egg hunt at SF’s Fort Mason Center Farmers Market, where families can hunt for eggs throughout the vendors’ stalls. It’ll last for about 20-30 minutes as supplies last, but you can spend the rest of the morning enjoying fresh food from the market.
🗓️ When: Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 11am
📍 Where: Fort Mason Center Farmers Market, Landmark Building E, Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94109
🌐 Learn more: CA Farmer’s Market Association
5. Bring Your Own Big Wheel
For over two decades, San Franciscans have raced down Vermont Street on big wheels in one of the city’s wackiest events on Easter weekend: the Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) race. If all goes well, the event will remain free, but be sure to donate to help cover all the permits and city fees. There is usually a young kids (13 and under) race and an “adult children” race.
🗓️When: April 20, 2025
📍Where: Vermont Street and 20th Street, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Bring Your Own Big Wheel
6. Spring Candlelight concerts
SF’s magical Candlelight Concerts will continue to mesmerize audiences through the spring. See some of the city’s most unique venues decked out with thousands of flickering candles, making for a uniquely intimate environment to experience live music performances. This spring, we’re looking forward to hearing classical renditions of our favorite songs by Coldplay, The Beatles, Hans Zimmer, Adele, and Vivaldi.
🗓️When: Ongoing all year long
📍Where: Various SF venues
🌐 Learn more: See the full schedule of upcoming concerts here.
7. Sana G Easter Egg Hunt at Thrive City
Thrive City and 106.1 KMEL host a kids’ Easter egg hunt at San Francisco’s Bayfront Park across from Chase Center. Kids ages 3-5 will participate at 9:05 am, ages 6-8 at 9:25 am, and ages 9-11 at 8:45 am. Then, families can hop over to Thrive City for an Easter celebration with activities and live entertainment.
🗓️When: April 19, 2025, at 9am
📍Where: Bayfront Park, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Chase Center
8. Spring Fling at Salesforce Park
Salesforce Park presents their annual Spring Fling, a kids Easter celebration and egg hunt in San Francisco with face painting, arts and crafts, great food and drinks, live music, and photos. They will host three egg hunts divided by age for kids 0-4, 5-7, and 8+.
🗓️When: April 19, 2025
📍Where: Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: TJPA Salesforce Park activities page
9. Meet & Greet with the Easter Bunny at SF Zoo
SF Zoo will celebrate Easter with an appearance from the Easter Bunny, kids’ crafts, and giveaways. Easter programming is free with zoo admission, and you’ll find it in the Zoo’s Entry Village.
🗓️When: April 20, 2025
📍Where: San Francisco Zoo, Sloat Blvd &, Upper Great Hwy, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: San Francisco Zoo calendar
10. Easter On The Way at Sunset Dunes
San Francisco’s newest park will host a plastic-free Easter egg hunt on the beach with live music, face painting, bounce houses, arts and crafts, and an appearance from the Easter Bunny himself.
🗓️When: April 19, 2025, from 11AM-1 PM
📍Where: San Francisco Zoo, Sloat Blvd &, Upper Great Hwy, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Easter On The Way
11. SF Botanical Garden Earth Day Celebration
While not officially an Easter celebration, this event at SF Botanical Garden is offering a great opportunity to enjoy the Great Meadow with eco-friendly arts and crafts, plant activities, and more. Bring a picnic and enjoy a relaxing afternoon on the grass.
🗓️When: April 19, 2025, from 10am-1 pm
📍Where: San Francisco Botanical Garden,
🌐 Learn more: SF Botanical Garden Earth Day celebration
12. 101st Easter Sunrise Service at Mount Davidson Cross
For over a century, San Francisco has awoken at sunrise to climb Mount Davidson for one of the longest-running Easter events in San Francisco. This year will mark the 102nd anniversary of the non-denominational tradition, featuring prayers and greetings from Pastor David Ainsworth, musical performances, and words from local clergy.
🗓️When: April 20, 2025
📍Where: Mt. Davidson Cross, 125 Dalewood Way, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Mt. Davidson
13. Easter Sunday at Grace Cathedral
San Francisco’s beautiful Grace Cathedral will decorate the space with stunning spring flower arrangements and greens. They are presenting a range of services throughout Holy Week, but Easter Sunday usually brings several Eucharists with special additions.
🗓️When: Events during Holy Week, April 13-20, 2025
📍Where: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: Grace Cathedral
14. Easter Sunday at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco hosts a free kid’s Easter egg hunt open to all on Easter Sunday, sandwiched by two Easter services. St. Mark’s also has additional Easter services and events in the days prior.
🗓️When: April 20, 2025
📍Where: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
15. Easter Weekend and celebration with New North Church
Throughout Easter Weekend, New North Church hosts a lineup of Easter events, including Good Friday services and Easter services. The community is invited to an Easter Celebration leading up to the service on Sunday, featuring egg hunts, a petting zoo, lawn games, face painting, bounce houses, a raffle, food trucks, and more.
🗓️When: Easter Fair on April 12 and Easter celebration from April 18-20, 2025
📍Where: New North Church, 777 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco
🌐 Learn more: New North Church
16. Easter brunch in San Francisco
You can’t do much better than a hearty brunch with friends and family on Easter weekend. We’ve got a couple of related lists on standby to help you find a restaurant to book, including essential brunches, bottomless brunches, and outdoor brunches.
If you want to take Easter brunch in SF up another level, there are a few experiences to put on your radar: The Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis are both known for serving extravagant Easter menus in San Francisco.
17. Easter Egg Hunt and Parade in Sausalito
The City of Sausalito will present the 43rd annual Easter Egg Hunt and Parade this year. The parade will proceed down Caledonia Street at 10am, starting at the Johnson Fire Station, and festivities will continue at Dunphy Park for the rest of the morning. There will be a kids’ egg hunt at 10:15 am, live music for kids at 10:30 am, an Easter Bonnet contest at 11 am, and an adult egg hunt with lots of prizes at 11:30 am. Bring your own basket!
🗓️When: April 19, 2025
📍Where: Dunphy Park, Bridgeway at Napa St, Sausalito
🌐 Learn more: Sausalito.gov
18. Spring at Filoli
Woodside’s Filoli Estate & Gardens is blooming with over 75,000 spring flowers this year, including daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, and blue violas. Now’s a great time to visit the gardens for the ultimate seasonal experience, and you can join the elegant Spring Tea in the Garden House for a beautiful array of finger sandwiches, scones, pastries, tea, and sparkling wine.
🗓️When: Spring events are ongoing through May
📍Where: 86 Cañada Rd, Woodside
🌐 Learn more: Read our article about spring in Filoli.
19. Spot some spring flowers around the Bay Area
Millions of spring flowers will bloom around the Bay Area in the coming months. After SF Botanical Garden’s vibrant magnolia bloom comes to an end, we can now enjoy cherry blossoms and tulips in Golden Gate Park, plus huge swathes of almond blossoms throughout Central California.
20. Check out this free garden just 30 minutes from SF
If you want to explore a historic garden this Easter weekend, we recommend checking out Gamble Garden in Palo Alto. The beautifully manicured garden is blooming with a variety of flowers, and it’s completely free. It’s a great way to embrace spring, and the gardens are family-friendly.