SeaWorld San Diego Howl-o-scream 

September 12 - November 1, 2025, 7 p.m. (may enter the park at 6 p.m.)

Actual dates: September 12-13, 19-20, 26-28, 2025; October 3-5, 9-12, 16-19, 23-26 & 30-31, 2025; November 1, 2025

$44-50

Tickets

SeaWorld San Diego
500 Sea World Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
$43.99-up, seaworld.com/san-diego

HALLOWSCREAM returns to SeaWorld San Diego with some new attractions and haunts. Themed cocktails, a Halloween boutique.  Howl-O-Scream is returning to transform the peaceful SeaWorld San Diego park you once knew into something sinister. Experience the family fun Spooktacular by day and the bone-chilling terror by night.

Five angry haunts through SEVEN scare zones and SIX vile vignettes. Seek shelter indoors, only to find you've entered a house of horrors. Quench your thirst for fear with fiendishly delicious cocktails, beer, and spirits at SIX themed bars and speakeasies.  Dance the night away and deepen the thrills with a nighttime coaster ride.

 

3 scare zones

Ripper (as in "Jack the Ripper") Row
Terrors of the Deep
Overgrown

Haunted Houses

3-D maze "Circus of the Damned"
Area 64 Alien Outbreak - lethal security, mad scientists and terrifying extraterrestrials
Simon's Slaughterhouse
Death Water Bayou - Awakening in black, murky waters under the curse of the evil Swamp Witch
Nightmare Experiment Sweet DreamzZz

Live Entertainment

Monster Stomp, Vile Vignettes, Opening Scaremony

Rides in the Dark

Arctic Rescue, Electric Eel and Emperor - all in the dark

 

 

Halloween Spooktacular for Kids

SeaWorld Spooktacular runs on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, September 6 through November 3, 2024, included with park admission

SeaWorld San Diego
500 Sea World Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
$, seaworld.com/san-diego
Free for ages under 3 years; also a promo sometimes with free admission age 3-9 years with adult admission

NEW: Waterfront Pumpkin Patch and Sea Shanty Band, Story Time with the Captain, Captain Sweet Tooth's Pirate-y Cavalcade, Candy Quest

• Kids  trick-or-treating 4 p.m. on Fridays and  12 p.m. to park close on Saturdays & Sundays. Reusable candy bag must be purchased in order to participate in trick-or-treating.
• SeaWorld San Diego's decorated trail
• Meet a Mermaid  along the Trick-or-Treat Trail
• Meet all sorts of colorful characters on the trail
• Halloween dance party includes a cast of silly characters for a Halloween Dance Party featuring your favorite Halloween-themed songs and family-friendly games like limbo, freeze dance, and more!
• O.P. Otter's Spooktacular Surprise Sing & Dance Party
• Hay Maze includes some fun fall characters along the way.
• Pumpkin scavenger hunt with a map. Redeem completed map at The SeaWorld Store for a special prize!
• Dia de los Muertos has large, beautifully dressed Catrina statues and ofrendas (offerings) of mementos and flowers honoring loved ones who have passed.
• Costumes OK to wear into the park for ages under 13 years  subject to the normal dress code for the park. In addition, face painting is not permitted on any guests unless it is done by park artists.

Events are not guaranteed. It is your responsibility to confirm before going.