Portola Festival 2024 Set Times and Essential Info

Assemble your feral friends and get prepared for an incredible edition of Portola Festival with all the essential info you’ll need ahead of the weekend!

Making its highly anticipated return to the Bay Area for year three, Portola Festival has been stirring up some chaotic energy over the past year. First announcing an ungodly lineup in May, Goldenvoice has since pulled out all the stops with everything from a new concept known as the Raccoon Social to a stacked Portola week of shows leading up to the festival itself.

This year’s edition brings a range of electronic and live music artists to choose from, ranging from Rufus Du Sol, Gesaffelstein, and Justice to Nia Archives, Rebecca Black, and HorsegiirL. To add the cherry on top, this year’s lineup is made up of almost 50% women and femme-identifying performers. We also can’t forget about the endless savory local food vendors or the secret speakeasy.

With such unforgettable Portola experiences over the last two years, we’re sure this year’s experience will be even better. Download the Portola app to plan your set times and meals, or take our preferred approach and follow the music. Be sure to check out our five femme acts to catch this weekend, and we’ll see you on the dancefloor!

Portola Festival 2024 – Essential Info:

Dates: September 28-29, 2024
Hours: 1pm-11pm, daily
Venue Address: 401 Cesar Chavez St, San Francisco, CA 94124
Tickets: Purchase HERE

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Reminder to Mind Your Belongings:

Unfortunately, during recent festival seasons, many have reported pickpockets, bag slashings, and theft of wallets, smartphones, purses, and other valuables. While this small number of bad apples in the bunch doesn’t define an entire crowd, some opportunistic people come to these events to take advantage of unsuspecting partygoers. It’s essential to mind your valuables while at Portola Festival.

Looking for tips to keep your belongings safe? Check our post highlighting some ideas!

Portola 2024 – Dos & Don’ts:

Prohibited Items

Advanced first aid kits (advanced first aid kits include but not limited to hemostatic gauze or powder, tourniquets, compression bandages, decompression needles, or chest seals)

Aerosol products/aerosol cans

Air horns

Animals

Audio recording devices

Bicycles, skates, scooters, or skateboards

Blankets

Body armor

Coolers

Chains or chain wallets

Chairs

Detachable lens cameras

Discriminative or appropriative items

Drones or remote control aircraft, cars, or toys

Fireworks, explosives, or road flares

Flags

Flyers, samples, giveaways, or promotional items

Glass bottles or containers

Glow sticks, light sticks, or LED gloves

Hammocks

Hula hoops

Hoverboards or Segways

Illegal drugs or drug paraphernalia

Instruments

IV bags

Kites or sky lanterns

Laser pointers

Markers or paint pens

Massagers

Outside food or beverage

Non-personal protective equipment (PPE) masks (costume)

Selfie sticks, tripods or narcissists

Smelling salts

Stuffed animals

Tailgating

Tents or sleeping bags

Tourniquets

Toy Guns, water guns, or slingshots

Totems

Umbrellas

Video cameras

Wagons

Walkie talkies

Weapons (guns, knives, ammo, pepper spray, mace, etc.)

Permitted Items

Backpacks (medium) 18″x13″x8.5″

Band-Aids

Binoculars

Breast pumps (manual, battery-operated, and powered devices)

Cameras (non-pro digital, disposable, Polaroid, and film)

Chapstick and lip balm

Dancing shoes

Earplugs

Eye drops

Face masks (PPE, non-costume)

Fanny packs and hip bags

GoPros

Gum (sealed packs)

Hand sanitizer

Hats

Hydration packs (empty)

Inhalers

Makeup

Mobile phone chargers

Parasols

Water bottles (empty and reusable)

Personal medication (name on medication must correlate with person’s DL or state ID)

Personal protective equipment (PPE) masks

Purses and handbags (12”x6”x12”)

Stored breastmilk or formula

Sunblock (non-aerosol)

Sunglasses

Towels (small to medium size)