One street carries the weekend
The Community Street Fair runs Saturday 20 February 2027 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 21 February from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Grant Street between California and Broadway. The hours sit in the Chamber's 2027 street fairs announcement, a one-page PDF on chineseparade.com. The fair carries more than 120 booths and concessions, an entertainment stage on Pacific Street below Grant Avenue, and a non-smoking rule.
The parade steps off at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday 20 February from 2nd and Market Streets. It runs about 1.3 miles around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. The organiser gives the running time as about 2-1/2 hours, which places the close near 7:45 p.m. Rain does not cancel it.
The Saturday against its own clock
The fair opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 4:30 p.m. Bleacher holders are asked to reach their assigned section by 4:00 p.m. The step-off is at 5:15 p.m.
The 4:00 p.m. check-in falls 30 minutes before the fair closes. The fair's close falls 45 minutes before the step-off. A group that wants the fair's last hour and a bleacher seat works to the 4:00 p.m. line.
Distances between the pieces are short. Grant Avenue at California Street stands 549 metres, or 0.34 mile, from the route's finish at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. Union Square at Geary and Powell stands 608 metres, or 0.38 mile, from Grant at California. Both figures are straight-line, computed from Nominatim geocodes of the published intersections.
Where the 3 p.m. closure meets the dinner booking
SFPD begins closing streets around 3 p.m. The organiser publishes the route line as 2nd and Market, around Union Square, and on to Kearny and Columbus. It publishes no street-by-street closure list.
Five garages the organiser names sit inside or against that line: Ellis-O'Farrell at 123 O'Farrell Street, Golden Gateway at 250 Clay Street, Portsmouth Square at 733 Kearny Street, North Beach at 735 Vallejo Street and Vallejo Street at 766 Vallejo Street. A coach entering that ground after 3 p.m. meets the closure. The organiser states it is not responsible for delays the closures cause.
A dinner booking placed at the finish end of the route is reachable on foot from the last of the parade. The route's finish sits 0.34 mile from the fair's California Street end, and a party that walks that line leaves the coach out of the evening. A booking placed inside the loop needs the coach before 3 p.m. or a walk through the crowd after 7:45 p.m.
Arriving without a coach
The organiser recommends public transport. Its transport page names BART stations at Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center on Market Street, Caltrain at 4th Street and Townsend, and the T Line and Muni stops two blocks from the Caltrain station. It also names AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans. The bleacher sections sit on the route. Section E runs on Geary Street between Stockton and Powell, 325 metres straight-line from Market Street at Powell.
Sunday is the long day
The fair's Sunday runs eight hours, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., against Saturday's six and a half. The Chamber lists family photographs with the giant puppets, the dragon and other artifacts from the parade among the day's draws.
A Monday 22 February checkout keeps the room through the second fair day. Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February holds two nights and covers the ball, the parade and one fair day. Three nights to the Monday cover both fair days.
Bleacher entry runs through a check-in station
Bleacher entry runs through a check-in station. The ticket QR code is scanned and a badge is issued for display while seated, and a receipt admits nobody. The sections bar oversized cushions, coolers, pets, selfie sticks and camera tripods, and city rules on weapons, firearms, explosives and drones apply. Portable restrooms sit along the route near the bleacher areas. Children two and under need no ticket and sit on a lap. Accessible seating inside a section sells at the standard price, and reserved accessible viewing areas run along the street barricades at no charge. Crossing points stay clear for emergency personnel.
Staying past the weekend
The same calendar carries the Chinatown YMCA Run on Sunday 7 March 2027, the 49th annual, with a 10K, a 5K and a walk. A group holding from the fair to that date prices the later nights on Engine's March line. Engine puts San Francisco at $165 a night across 3.1 million public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026, with February at $166 and March at $197, 19 percent above the city average. Engine defines the figures as par rates, the cheapest public price at the time of each search.
No page read for this piece carries a hotel block, a group rate or a cut-off date. The parade office answers on (415) 889-8891 and info@chineseparade.com, and the Chamber sits at 730 Sacramento Street.