Oakland Dia de los Muertos Festival (Fruitvale)

Oakland, CA · Holiday

When: November 1, 2026
Where: International Blvd, Fruitvale (Fruitvale Ave to 42nd Ave) · Oakland · CA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The Unity Council's Dia de los Muertos festival closes International Boulevard through Fruitvale for community altars, Aztec dance, and live music, drawing crowds reported near 100,000. Running for more than three decades, it is the largest Day of the Dead celebration in the Bay Area.

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The Unity Council's Dia de los Muertos festival closes International Boulevard through Fruitvale for community altars, Aztec dance, and live music, drawing crowds reported near 100,000.
Oscar Grant shot at Fruitvale0.1 mi
A transit officer shot an unarmed man face down on the platform in the early hours of New Year's Day, filmed by passengers on several phones.
Ghost Ship fire0.3 mi
Thirty-six people died at a warehouse concert in a building illegally converted to artists' housing, with one improvised staircase out.
St. Elizabeth High School and the school that reopened in its building0.3 mi
Franciscan friars opened St.
Fruitvale, named for the fruit nursery that got there first0.4 mi
Henderson Luelling planted a nursery of apricot and cherry trees in this valley in the middle of the 19th century, and the name Fruit Vale stuck to the district that grew up around it.