• Indoor dining and food courts
  • Indoor dining at restaurants, bars serving meals, cafes and coffee shops, hotels, museums, and food courts in shopping malls may open at up to the lesser of 25% maximum occupancy or 100 people.
  • San Francisco will limit indoor dining tables to members of one household up to a maximum of four people and require indoor service to end by 10:00pm. 
• Indoor and outdoor personal services
  • Personal services that require mask removal can take place outdoors and the service provider wears an N95 or other well-fitted mask.
  • Personal services that require mask removal can occur indoors if the service is provided at least 6 feet away from others and preferably in a separate room and the service provider wears an N95 or other well-fitted mask.
• Indoor fitness
  • Gyms and climbing walls may reopen indoors at up to 10% capacity.
  • Gentle indoor fitness classes such as stretching, yoga and meditation may operate within indoor fitness guidelines.
  • Indoor locker rooms and showers remain closed at this time. Indoor saunas, steam rooms and hot tubs remain closed per State rules.  
• Indoor museums, zoos, and aquariums
  • Indoor museums, zoos and aquariums can open at up to 25% capacity with an approved safety plan.  
• Indoor funerals
  • Funerals may take place indoors up to up to 25% capacity.
  • Simultaneous indoor and outdoor services may not take place.
• Indoor political demonstrations
  • Political demonstrations may take place indoors up to 25% of maximum capacity.
• Schools
  • Middle schools and high schools that had not yet reopened may resume reopening for in-person instruction with a COVID-19 Safety Plan approved by the Health Officer. Elementary schools may continue to reopen, as has been the case.
• Outdoor stand-alone amusement rides
  • Outdoor stand-alone amusement rides like Ferris wheels, carousels, and train rides will open. Only one household can inhabit each separate space, such as a Ferris wheel cabin or train car.
• Indoor movie theaters
  • Indoor movie theaters may open at up to the lesser of 25% or 100 people capacity, but without food or beverage concessions.
  • If there are multiple auditoriums, each auditorium is limited to the lesser of 25% or 100 people provided the complex as a whole does not exceed 25% capacity. 
• Indoor pools
  • Indoor swimming pools may open up to 25% capacity but only for basic swimming and drowning-prevention classes for children.
  • Outdoor pools remain open for broader uses.

The following activities may expand their operating capacity:

• Outdoor gatherings
  • Small outdoor gatherings of up to 12 people from three households can continue
  • Outdoor gatherings that involve food and drink may expand to up to six people from three households.
• Outdoor dining
  • Outdoor dining will expand from members of two households up to six people, to members of three households up to six people per table, and will remove the requirement that service end by10:00 pm.
  • Additionally, for those businesses that had constructed barriers between tables in lieu of distancing before December 6, those barriers can remain. New barriers intended to replace the required 6 feet of distancing may not be constructed. 
• Hotels and other lodging facilities
  • Hotels and lodging facilities can open dining and fitness facilities in accordance with guidelines.
  • Though San Francisco’s travel quarantine for travelers from outside the Bay Area has lifted, the State’s travel advisory requiring that non-essential travelers from out of state or beyond 120 miles quarantine for 10 days remains.
• Drive-in venues
  • Live entertainment with up to six performers can open in a drive in context of up to 100 cars, with one household per car.
  • In-person ordering or pick up of concessions may open if in a designated area with customer metering and eating or drinking in vehicles only.
• Real estate
  • Real estate showings must occur virtually or, if a virtual viewing is not feasible, by appointment without limits to the number of people viewing or showing the property.
  • Open houses are not permitted at this time.
• Outdoor youth programs and out of school time programs
  • Out of school time programs for school-aged children and youth such as Community Hubs, youth sports, and afterschool programs, may increase outdoor cohorts to 25 children or youth.
  • Youth may only participate in one program at a time.
• Higher education and adult education
  • In-person classes at institutes of higher education, vocational education and adult education can take place outdoors up to 25 students.
  • If specialized equipment is required, classes can take place indoors at 25% capacity or if for a core essential service, without a capacity limit as long as 6 foot physical distancing can be maintained.
  • No indoor lecture classes may take place.
• Outdoor recreation
  • Doubles tennis and doubles pickleball can resume with members of up to four households. 
  • Up to 12 people from three households may pursue outdoor low, moderate, or high contact sports.
  • If part of a supervised youth or adult league or club, outdoor moderate and high contact sports such as softball, field hockey, and gymnastics, as well as football, basketball, and soccer may resume for stable groups of up to 25 per team, following DPH safety precautions.
  • Competitions may only occur in county or with teams from adjacent counties (i.e., Marin, San Mateo, and Alameda) in an equal or less restrictive tier. Consistent with State guidelines, travel for out of state tournaments may not take place. 

San Francisco’s reopening updates will be available online tomorrow, March 3 at SF.gov/reopening

Lastly, now that the majority of people staying long term care and residential facilities have been vaccinated, please click HERE to download guidelines when visiting your loved ones at residential facilities.

• https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/ 
• https://sf.gov/covid-19-vaccine-san-francisco