There are lots of fun ways to celebrate New Year's in the Bay Area with the entire family. Here is a round-up of great family friendly options for ringing in the New Year. All events are on December 31st.
Reflect on 2024 and start the new year ready to connect to nature!
The Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club presents "A New Year's Bash! Starring Snoopy", directed by the legendary Karen Kresge. With two Ice Show times available, please join us for an Ice Show to celebrate the magic of the holiday season and to ring in the New Year with guest star, Snoopy!
Come groom a trail, pull invasive weeds, split firewood, paint a fence, or do the countless other tasks that keep the park humming.
Celebrate the arrival of 2025 with the whole family by participating in the “countdown to noon across time zones” with family hugs, a lively celebration, and the Museum’s version of the famous Ball Drop in Times Square with lots of confetti.
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Featuring The Music of Soji Sai Afrobeat
Celebrate the New Year with the Peanuts Gang! Enjoy fun crafts for kids, make a balloon Snoopy, and watch Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! on the big screen.
Kids and parents, come celebrate the New Year with music, activities, face painting and a countdown to THREE GIANT balloon drops at noon!
Ring in the New Year without staying up all night!
A New Year’s celebration for the whole family!
Can’t keep the kids awake till midnight? Join us for our annual family-friendly New Year’s Eve party! Bid farewell to 2024 and ring in 2025 with colorful confetti blasted from a confetti cannon. We can’t wait to celebrate together—with science!
Ring in 2025 with PRD! Celebrate with music, crafts, a countdown to noon, balloon drop, and a whole lot of fun! Children under 2 years are free.
Join us as we ring in the Noon Year at the Ygnacio Valley Library!
Kids and their families are invited to celebrate Noon Year’s Eve with crafts, refreshments, a photo booth, and a countdown to noon!
Join us for a Noon-Years Eve Dance Party to celebrate 2025!
Join us for a special New Year's Eve celebration just for kids! We'll have stories, songs, a craft, and learn a little bit about New Year's Eve traditions from around the world before we countdown to New Year's Eve somewhere on the planet!
Join Museum-on-the-Go at Poppy Bank Epicenter for Common Ground Society’s Noon-Year’s Party!
You won’t have to stay up past your bedtime for this New Year’s Eve party!
Kids of all ages are invited to Downtown Novato to see what happens when 25,000 small bouncy balls are dropped onto the street from a ladder truck 40 feet in the air!
At this special annual event, we will open the firehouse to bring in the bells with your family & friends.
Spend New Year's Eve at Gilroy Gardens!
This year, the holiday FUN doesn’t stop when Christmas ends! California’s Great America is offering an exciting way to ring in 2025 with a family-friendly New Year’s Eve event worth celebrating.
Live music, magic, carnival games, NYE Ball Drop and more!
Come groom a trail, pull invasive weeds, split firewood, paint a fence, or do the countless other tasks that keep the park humming.
Would you like to start of the New Year in a memorable way? Join us for a New Year's Sunrise Hike!
Start the new year out right with a guided hike on Angel Island! Join Park Interpreters for a 4-mile, moderately paced hike on paved and unpaved trails.
The Konko Church of San Francisco is excited to invite you to our Hatsumode event! This is a tradition in Japan where people visit a shrine to pray at the start of the New Year.
Let's set the tone for the New Year by creative beauty together. Join me in creating a massive artwork on the beach.
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Celebrate with your museum community for an experience the San Francisco Chronicle calls “a great way to end a year and start a new year.”