What’s happening in San Francisco this week

Where to go in San Francisco: events, concerts, games and shows worth your night

San Francisco was the West Coast’s music city before Los Angeles was, and it has kept the rooms to prove it: the Fillmore, the Warfield, the Great American Music Hall, a symphony hall and an opera house in the Civic Center, a ballpark on the bay, and neighborhoods where the small venues have survived the rent. Below is where to go in San Francisco for a night out, with addresses, and what tends to be on when.

Concerts and live music in San Francisco

The Fillmore (1805 Geary Boulevard, thefillmore.com), chandeliers, posters and free apples at the door, is the room every band wants; the Warfield (982 Market Street), a 1922 vaudeville house, takes the bigger tours; the Great American Music Hall (859 O’Farrell Street) is the ornate 600-capacity one, and the Independent and Bottom of the Hill the new bands. Arena tours play the Chase Center in Mission Bay and, across the bay, the Oakland Arena; the Greek Theater in Berkeley and Frost Amphitheater at Stanford take the summer shows. Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Avenue) is the San Francisco Symphony’s.

San Francisco nightlife: the Mission, SoMa, Hayes Valley and the Castro

The Mission has the bars, the small venues and the late taquerias; SoMa the clubs; Hayes Valley the cocktail bars near the opera; the Castro the queer scene. Bars close at 2 a.m. everywhere in California. Muni and BART thin out after midnight; the Owl buses run all night.

Opera, ballet and theater in San Francisco

The War Memorial Opera House (301 Van Ness Avenue) is home to the San Francisco Opera (September to December, then summer) and the San Francisco Ballet (January to May), the oldest ballet company in the country. A.C.T. on Geary Street produces plays; the Orpheum, the Golden Gate and the Curran take Broadway tours; Cobb’s and the Punch Line are the comedy clubs.

Sports in San Francisco

The Giants at Oracle Park from April to October, the best ballpark in the country to sit in; the Warriors at the Chase Center from October to April; the 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, an hour south, on fall Sundays; and the Sharks in San Jose.

Museums and galleries in San Francisco

SFMOMA (151 Third Street) is open late on Thursdays; the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor share a ticket and run Friday evening events in summer; the Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center is open late on Thursdays. The galleries of Minnesota Street Project in Dogpatch open together on the first Saturday of the month.

San Francisco festivals and events by season

• Winter: the Chinese New Year Parade in February, the largest outside Asia, and the ballet season.
• Spring: the San Francisco International Film Festival in April, Bay to Breakers in May, and Giants opening day.
• Summer: Pride at the end of June, Stern Grove’s free Sunday concerts, Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in August, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, free, in the park in late September or October.
• Fall: the opera and symphony seasons opening, Fleet Week in October, and Litquake.

Things to do in San Francisco tonight and this weekend

The listings above are the live version of all this: every concert, show, game, club night and exhibition on in San Francisco tonight, tomorrow and this weekend, with times, prices and tickets, updated every hour.