The Dates And The Free Gate
San Francisco Fleet Week runs 4 to 12 October 2026. The association prints that frame on every page, and its dated calendar runs from Tuesday 6 October to Monday 12 October.
The concert programme is free. Two published exceptions apply: the Honor Our Fallen Concert takes advance reservations, and the Sunday zoo slot sits inside paid zoo admission.
Forty-One Sets At Twenty-Seven Addresses
The 2026 Free Concert Calendar lists 41 band performances. Forty carry a street address, and those 40 sit at 27 distinct addresses. The forty-first is the Honor Our Fallen Concert at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter Street, on Thursday 8 October from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
No single venue holds the programme. Pier 39 carries a 5 p.m. slot on each of the five days from Wednesday to Sunday, and Fleet Fest at 2860 Taylor Street carries six slots across Saturday and Sunday.
The Five Bands On The Circuit
Five military ensembles play the series: Navy Band Southwest, the 1st Marine Division Band, the 191st Army Reserve Band of the Wild West, the USAF Band of the Golden West and the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps Band of the West Division. The association calls the 2026 lineup expanded.
Tuesday To Thursday
Tuesday 6 October carries two slots: 12:30 p.m. at TJPA Salesforce Park, 425 Mission Street, and 6 p.m. at Noe Valley Town Square, 3861 24th Street.
Wednesday 7 October carries six. The earliest clock of the series sits here, at 11:30 a.m. at the SF VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street. Then 2 p.m. at Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point Street, 3 p.m. at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, and three at 5 p.m. at Huntington Park on Nob Hill, Osaka Way in Japantown and Pier 39.
Thursday 8 October carries six more: noon at the Ferry Building Back Plaza, 1 p.m. at Crab Wheel Plaza, 2820 Taylor Street, 5 p.m. at Castro’s Jane Warner Plaza and at Pier 39, 6 p.m. at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre, and 7 p.m. at the Heroes Block Party, 1524 Powell Street.
Friday And Saturday
Friday 9 October carries 10 slots, level with Saturday for the week’s highest count, and four start at noon: Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley, 50 Fell Street, the Golden Gate Park Band Shell, Crab Wheel Plaza and Presidio Tunnel Tops, 210 Lincoln Boulevard.
Two start at 4 p.m., at Union Square, 333 Post Street, and Glen Park Library, 2825 Diamond Street. Three start at 5 p.m., at Pier 39, Ghirardelli Square and the Powell Street cable car turnaround, and the Chinatown Night Market at Commercial and Grant closes the day at 6 p.m.
Friday also carries the Parade of Ships from 11 a.m. to noon and the air show from noon to 4 p.m. at Marina Green, with no ship-tour window.
Saturday 10 October carries 10 slots, and its clock runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Two start at 11 a.m., at Fleet Fest on 2860 Taylor Street and at K9 Heroes in Duboce Park, and two at noon, at Fleet Fest and at Ghirardelli Square.
India Basin Waterfront Park in Bayview, 900 Innes Avenue, takes 1 p.m., Sunset Branch Library, 1305 18th Avenue, 2 p.m., West Portal Patio, 80 West Portal Avenue, 4 p.m., Fleet Fest and Pier 39 both 5 p.m., and Westwood World, 2036 Lombard Street, closes the series at 8 p.m., the latest clock of the week. Fleet Fest runs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the SkyStar Wheel, and the Service and Safety Expo presented by PG&E runs the same hours at Pier 27.
Sunday And The Monday Tail
Sunday 11 October carries seven slots: 11 a.m. at Fleet Fest, noon at Fleet Fest, 12:30 p.m. twice on the Italian Heritage Parade route from Jefferson and Powell to Washington Park, 2 p.m. at Fleet Fest, 3 p.m. at the San Francisco Zoo Leaping Lemur Cafe on paid admission, and 5 p.m. at Pier 39.
Monday 12 October carries no concert-series slot. It carries the free High School Band Challenge at the Golden Gate Park Bandshell from 9 a.m. to noon, with the 1st Marine Division Band opening, beside the last ship-tour window at Pier 35 from 9 a.m. to noon.
The Free Anchors Beside The Band Clocks
Ship tours run at Piers 27 and 35 across five windows: Wednesday 7 October from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pier 27, Thursday 8, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at both piers, and Monday 12 October from 9 a.m. to noon at Pier 35. No window opens on the Friday. Five hulls are named.
The Parade of Ships runs Friday 9 October from 11 a.m. to noon along the waterfront. The air show runs 9, 10 and 11 October from noon to 4 p.m. at Marina Green, between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, headlined by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. General admission is free, and the Air Show Network VIP Experience sells separately.
What The Dates Price At
Engine puts San Francisco at $165 a night across 3.1 million public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026. Those figures are par rates, the cheapest public price at the time of each search, observed 10 to 180 days before check-in.
October averages $176, seven percent above the city average, and the concert dates sit in October. September averages $192 and March $197, the two peaks of the year. December averages $129. The city ranks 18th of 50 markets, 11 percent above the $148 median.
The Read For A Day-Use Desk
The two most common clocks in the set are 5 p.m. with 11 slots and noon with eight. The morning carries four slots. The addresses spread those windows across 27 points of the city.
The association publishes no attendance figure, no capacity figure and no gate count for the week. A day-use desk sets its own window and its own price basis from the published clocks and the October line.