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The festival is named after the October 19-23, 1909 Portolá Festival and Portola Road Race, events thrown by the city of San Francisco to demonstrate its recovery from the 1906 earthquake.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Noise complaints

The event received noise complaints from residents of the city of Alameda which is located across the San Francisco Bay from Pier 80.[10] The city requested that the festival be discontinued or moved to a different location due to the various noise complaints from its residents.[11] The highest sound level recorded by sound monitors located in Alameda was 61.4 dBA, which is below the city’s noise ordinance of 70 dBA. However, the dBA scale, A-weighting, attenuates low frequency audio by as much as 40 decibels, implying the actual noise level at the lowest audio frequencies could have been as high as 101 decibels.[12]

The 2023 festival received 235 noise complaints and the 2024 festival received 224 noise complaints, despite mitigation efforts.[13][14] The festival on Sunday went until 10:45 pm in 2024, compared with 11:00 pm in 2023.

Festival summary by year

Edition Year Dates Headliners Attendance or sales Ref.
1st 2022 September 24–25 30,000 (attendance) [15][10]
2nd 2023 September 30–October 1 N/a [16]
3rd 2024 September 28–29 42,000 (attendees per day) [17][18]
4th 2025 September 20–21 N/a [19]
5th 2026 September 26–27 N/a [20]

References

  1. ↑ Price, Emily. “Portola Music Festival 2023: Everything you need to know”. SFGATE. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  2. ↑ Mayer, Phil (2022-05-16). “New music festival ‘Portola’ comes to SF in September”. KRON4. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  3. ↑ “Re-interpreting the Discovery Site”. www.nps.gov (U.S. National Park Service). Retrieved 17 September 2025. In 1909, San Francisco held the Portolá Festival, a month-long event celebrating the city’s history after rebuilding from the 1906 earthquake.
  4. ↑ Hauser, Herbert (October 17, 1909). “Amateur Sports Fill Each Day OF Festival”. San Francisco Call Sunday Magazine, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. p. 48. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, The March of Portolá and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco (San Francisco: The California Promotion Committee, 1909), “This Book is published with the approval and endorsement of the Executive Committee of the Portolá Festival.”
  6. ↑ Salazar, James (September 20, 2022). “San Francisco’s historic Portola Festival inspired S.F.’s newest musical offering”. San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  7. ↑ “The Portola Festival: A Closer Look”. www.opensfhistory.org. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  8. ↑ “Portola Fest. 1909”. www.postcard.org. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  9. ↑ Edgar D. Peixotto
  10. 1 2 Goeres, Kelsey (October 4, 2023). “Updated: Portola Music Festival Rocks Alameda for Second Year in a Row”. Alameda Post. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  11. ↑ Tolentino, Aaron (October 6, 2023). “Alameda formally requests SF’s Portola Music Festival to be discontinued”. KRON4. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  12. ↑ Ege, Mike (October 11, 2023). “Alameda Relents on Demand to Close San Francisco Music Festival”. The San Francisco Standard. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  13. ↑ “MSN”. www.msn.com. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  14. ↑ “Portola Music Festival receives 224 noise complaints, despite mitigation efforts”. Yahoo News. 2024-10-01. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  15. ↑ Bain, Katie (2022-05-16). “The Chemical Brothers, Flume, M.I.A. & Kaytranada Lead Lineup for San Francisco’s New Portola Festival”. Billboard. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  16. ↑ Bain, Katie (2023-05-18). “Skrillex, Eric Prydz, Jai Paul & Nelly Furtado Lead Portola 2023 Lineup”. Billboard. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  17. ↑ Bain, Katie (2024-05-13). “Rüfüs Du Sol, Justice, Gesaffelstein & Disclosure Are Bringing the Party to Portola 2024: See the Lineup”. Billboard. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  18. ↑ Katsuyama, Jana (2024-09-30). “Portola Music Festival receives 224 noise complaints, despite mitigation efforts”. KTVU FOX 2. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  19. ↑ Bain, Katie (2025-05-12). “LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy, Christina Aguilera & More Set to Headline Portola 2025: See the Lineup”. Billboard. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  20. ↑ “Portola 2026: Lineup, dates, ticket details released for San Francisco music festival”. ABC7 San Francisco. 2026-05-29. Retrieved 2026-07-20.