Neighborhoods In San Francisco

Discover the best neighborhoods in San Francisco with curated recommendations from our editors.

Chinatown and North Beach

A few blocks uphill from Union Square is the abrupt beginning of dense and insular Chinatown—the oldest such community in the country. When the street...

  • 30 Restaurants
  • 4 Hotels
  • 56 Things To Do

Golden Gate Park

Jogging, cycling, skating, picnicking, going to a museum, checking out a concert, dozing in the sunshine . . . Golden Gate Park is the perfect...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 12 Things To Do

Mission District, Bernal Heights, and Potrero Hill

The Mission has a number of distinct personalities: it's a Latino neighborhood where working-class folks raise families; it's a hipster hood where the tattooed and...

  • 36 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 53 Things To Do

Nob Hill and Russian Hill

In place of the quirky charm and cultural diversity that mark other San Francisco neighborhoods, Nob Hill exudes history and good breeding. Topped with some...

  • 21 Restaurants
  • 7 Hotels
  • 26 Things To Do

Pacific Heights and Japantown

Pacific Heights and Japantown are something of an odd couple: privileged, old-school San Francisco and the workaday commercial center of Japanese American life in the...

  • 16 Restaurants
  • 10 Hotels
  • 36 Things To Do

SoMa, Mission Bay, and Dogpatch

SoMa (short for "south of Market") is one of San Francisco's most sprawling neighborhood, covering a largely industrial part of the city below Market Street...

  • 30 Restaurants
  • 13 Hotels
  • 51 Things To Do

The Haight, the Castro, Hayes Valley and Noe Valley

These neighborhoods wear their personalities large and proud, and are perfect for strolling around. Like a slide show of San Francisco's history, you can move...

  • 34 Restaurants
  • 6 Hotels
  • 79 Things To Do

The Marina and the Presidio

Yachts bob at their moorings, satisfied-looking folks jog along the Marina Green, and multimillion-dollar homes overlook the bay in the picturesque, if somewhat sterile, Marina...

  • 24 Restaurants
  • 8 Hotels
  • 50 Things To Do

The Waterfront

San Francisco's waterfront neighborhoods have fabulous views and utterly different personalities. Kitschy, overpriced Fisherman's Wharf struggles to maintain the last shreds of its existence as...

  • 43 Restaurants
  • 15 Hotels
  • 42 Things To Do

The Western Shoreline

Few American cities provide a more intimate and dramatic view of the power and fury of the surf attacking the shore than San Francisco does...

  • 20 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 17 Things To Do

Union Square, Civic Center, and the Tenderloin

The Union Square area bustles with big-city bravado. In Union Square—a plaza but also the neighborhood around it—the crowds zigzag among international brands, trailing glossy...

  • 18 Restaurants
  • 47 Hotels
  • 87 Things To Do

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