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This guide covers the city of San Francisco taking in all the important sites before moving on to the rest of the Peninsula. Key features include: reviews of restaurants and accommodation in every price range; discussion of the city's history, from Gold Rush beginnings through the Summer of Love to today's gay scene; and detailed neighbourhood and transport maps.
Excerpted from The Rough Guide to San Francisco by Deborah Bosley, Jamie Jensen. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
CLIMATE AND WHEN TO GO The city of San Francisco emphatically does not belong to the California of monotonous blue skies and slothful warmth. Flanked on three sides by water, it is regularly invigorated by the fresh winds that sweep across the peninsula. The climate is among the most stable in the world, with a daytime temperature that rarely ventures more than 5ºF either side of a median 60ºF but can drop much lower at night. Summer does offer some sunny days, of course, but it also sees heavy fog roll in through the Golden Gate to smother the city in gloom. This thick mist does much to add romance to the city, but it can also dash hopes of tanning at the beach or having a timely departure from one of the local airports. The western half of the city sees the worst of the fog on summer mornings; later in the year, cooler inland temperatures prevent the fog from taking root. Winters bring most of the city’s rainfall, sometimes in quite torrential storms. Almost everywhere else in the Bay Area is warm! er than San Francisco, especially in the summer when the East Bay basks in sunshine, and the Wine Country and other inland valleys are baking hot. As for when to go, if you want to avoid the crowds, it makes sense not to come in the summer, although even then most of the tourist congestion is confined to a few of the most popular parts of the city, and is rarely too off-putting. The nicest times to visit are late May and June, when the hills are greenest and covered with wildflowers, or in October and November, when you can be fairly sure of good weather and reduced crowds at tourist attractions.
This guide covers the city of San Francisco taking in all the important sites before moving on to the rest of the Peninsula. Key features include: reviews of restaurants and accommodation in every price range; discussion of the city's history, from Gold Rush beginnings through the Summer of Love to today's gay scene; and detailed neighbourhood and transport maps.
Excerpted from The Rough Guide to San Francisco by Deborah Bosley, Jamie Jensen. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
CLIMATE AND WHEN TO GO The city of San Francisco emphatically does not belong to the California of monotonous blue skies and slothful warmth. Flanked on three sides by water, it is regularly invigorated by the fresh winds that sweep across the peninsula. The climate is among the most stable in the world, with a daytime temperature that rarely ventures more than 5ºF either side of a median 60ºF but can drop much lower at night. Summer does offer some sunny days, of course, but it also sees heavy fog roll in through the Golden Gate to smother the city in gloom. This thick mist does much to add romance to the city, but it can also dash hopes of tanning at the beach or having a timely departure from one of the local airports. The western half of the city sees the worst of the fog on summer mornings; later in the year, cooler inland temperatures prevent the fog from taking root. Winters bring most of the city’s rainfall, sometimes in quite torrential storms. Almost everywhere else in the Bay Area is warm! er than San Francisco, especially in the summer when the East Bay basks in sunshine, and the Wine Country and other inland valleys are baking hot. As for when to go, if you want to avoid the crowds, it makes sense not to come in the summer, although even then most of the tourist congestion is confined to a few of the most popular parts of the city, and is rarely too off-putting. The nicest times to visit are late May and June, when the hills are greenest and covered with wildflowers, or in October and November, when you can be fairly sure of good weather and reduced crowds at tourist attractions.
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