Lights

This Month's Lighting Events

10/2 - 10/3              Purple - Domestic Violence Awareness Month
10/5/19                   Blue/Gold - Warrior's 1st Preseason Game in SF
10/7/19                   Orange - National Bullying Prevention Month
10/9/19                   Blue/White/Yellow/Red - Filipino American History Celebration
10/11 - 10/13          Red/White/Blue - Fleet Week
10/14/19                 TBD - Indiginous People's Day
10/16/19                 Red/White/Blue - 9/11 Commemoration
10/17/19                 Pink - Breat Cancer Awareness Month
10/18 - 10/19          Red/White/Green - Italian Flag
10/23/19                 House Colors - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at hte Curran Theater
10/24/19                 Blue/Gold - Warrior's Regular Season Opening Game in SF
10/31/19                 Orange - Halloween

Lighting Event History

About City Hall's exterior lighting

Every evening at sunset, over 220 state-of-the-art LED lighting fixtures illuminate City Hall's exterior. Normally, a soft white glow shows off the play of light and shadow on the full façade and dome. Frequently, special plaza façade lighting schemes honor or celebrate events, seasons, and holidays.
 
Until 2016, the lights were standard incandescent bulbs. Changing their colors was expensive and time-consuming; two to three building staff members, plus a crew of four staff from a lighting contractor, spent hours crawling in and out of office windows and onto the rooftop to install colored theatrical gels on each of the 220 fixtures, even in bad weather. For removal of the gels, the whole process happened in reverse.
 
Power use is now much lower, and with just an occasional cleaning, maintaining the fixtures is much easier: LED bulbs last as long as 20 years.

News about City Hall lighting

Please note, the CIty Hall lighting schedule is subject to change.