Marina District
Chestnut Street, Marina Green and the waterfront.
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD ATLAS
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San Francisco has overlapping neighborhood names and informal boundaries. This editorial atlas includes widely recognized neighborhoods and smaller local areas; it is not a legal boundary map. Explore each place, then verify address-specific facts before making a decision.
North & Waterfront
Cow Hollow
Union Street shops and sloping residential blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Pacific Heights
Lafayette Park and Fillmore Street.
Read neighborhood guide →Lower Pacific Heights
California Street corridor and neighborhood shops.
Read neighborhood guide →Presidio Heights
Sacramento Street and Presidio access.
Read neighborhood guide →Laurel Heights
California Street shops and nearby parks.
Read neighborhood guide →Russian Hill
Hyde Street cable cars and steep blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Nob Hill
Huntington Park and California Street.
Read neighborhood guide →North Beach
Washington Square and Columbus Avenue.
Read neighborhood guide →Telegraph Hill
Coit Tower and hillside stairways.
Read neighborhood guide →Fisherman's Wharf
Waterfront tourism and Jefferson Street.
Read neighborhood guide →Aquatic Park
Aquatic Park Cove and Fort Mason.
Read neighborhood guide →Fort Mason
Fort Mason Center and waterfront trails.
Read neighborhood guide →Central & Northeast
Chinatown
Grant Avenue and Stockton Street corridors.
Read neighborhood guide →Financial District
Montgomery Street and office towers.
Read neighborhood guide →Jackson Square
Historic brick buildings and galleries.
Read neighborhood guide →Union Square
Powell Street and downtown retail.
Read neighborhood guide →Tenderloin
Little Saigon corridor and neighborhood arts venues.
Read neighborhood guide →Civic Center
City Hall, libraries and performing arts.
Read neighborhood guide →Hayes Valley
Patricia's Green and Hayes Street boutiques.
Read neighborhood guide →Western Addition
Divisadero corridor and historic housing.
Read neighborhood guide →Japantown
Peace Plaza and Post Street.
Read neighborhood guide →Cathedral Hill
Van Ness Avenue and medical campuses.
Read neighborhood guide →Lower Nob Hill
Sutter and Bush Street corridors.
Read neighborhood guide →South Beach
Embarcadero and waterfront condominium towers.
Read neighborhood guide →Rincon Hill
High-rise residential towers and Bay Bridge approaches.
Read neighborhood guide →SoMa
Museums, offices and converted warehouse blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Yerba Buena
Yerba Buena Gardens and cultural venues.
Read neighborhood guide →Mission Bay
UCSF campus, parks and newer housing.
Read neighborhood guide →Dogpatch
Third Street shops and industrial heritage.
Read neighborhood guide →Potrero Hill
18th Street cafés and hillside outlooks.
Read neighborhood guide →West & Parkside
Inner Richmond
Clement Street shops and Golden Gate Park.
Read neighborhood guide →Central Richmond
Geary Boulevard and residential avenues.
Read neighborhood guide →Outer Richmond
Balboa Street and access to Ocean Beach.
Read neighborhood guide →Sea Cliff
Coastal bluffs and Lands End trails.
Read neighborhood guide →Lake Street
Lake Street slow-street corridor and Presidio paths.
Read neighborhood guide →Presidio
Trails, historic buildings and parklands.
Read neighborhood guide →Inner Sunset
Irving Street, N-Judah and Golden Gate Park.
Read neighborhood guide →Central Sunset
Noriega Street shops and residential avenues.
Read neighborhood guide →Outer Sunset
Ocean Beach and Judah/Noriega corridors.
Read neighborhood guide →Parkside
Taraval Street and western residential blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Golden Gate Heights
Grandview Park and steep streets.
Read neighborhood guide →Forest Hill
Laguna Honda and wooded residential streets.
Read neighborhood guide →Forest Knolls
Hillside streets near Mount Sutro.
Read neighborhood guide →West Portal
West Portal Avenue shops and Muni station.
Read neighborhood guide →St. Francis Wood
Garden streets and distinctive architecture.
Read neighborhood guide →Lakeshore
Lake Merced and nearby shopping.
Read neighborhood guide →Merced Manor
Residential blocks near Lake Merced.
Read neighborhood guide →Ingleside
Ocean Avenue and Balboa Park transit access.
Read neighborhood guide →Ingleside Terraces
Circular street plan and detached houses.
Read neighborhood guide →Oceanview
Southwest residential blocks and transit corridors.
Read neighborhood guide →Parkmerced
Lake Merced and large residential campus.
Read neighborhood guide →Central & Southern Hills
Noe Valley
24th Street retail and sunny hillside blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Glen Park
Glen Park village and BART station.
Read neighborhood guide →Bernal Heights
Cortland Avenue and Bernal Heights Park.
Read neighborhood guide →Mission District
Valencia Street and 24th Street corridors.
Read neighborhood guide →Mission Dolores
Dolores Park and nearby cafés.
Read neighborhood guide →Castro
Castro Street, transit and neighborhood nightlife.
Read neighborhood guide →Duboce Triangle
Duboce Park and N-Judah connections.
Read neighborhood guide →Lower Haight
Haight Street shops and nearby transit.
Read neighborhood guide →Haight-Ashbury
Haight Street and Buena Vista Park.
Read neighborhood guide →Cole Valley
Cole Street shops and nearby UCSF.
Read neighborhood guide →Ashbury Heights
Elevated streets above Cole Valley.
Read neighborhood guide →Corona Heights
Corona Heights Park and rocky terrain.
Read neighborhood guide →Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks Boulevard and panoramic outlooks.
Read neighborhood guide →Diamond Heights
Modernist-era housing and canyon paths.
Read neighborhood guide →Miraloma Park
Mount Davidson and residential streets.
Read neighborhood guide →Sunnyside
City College and Monterey Boulevard.
Read neighborhood guide →Excelsior
Mission Street businesses and neighborhood parks.
Read neighborhood guide →Outer Mission
Mission Street corridor and southern residential blocks.
Read neighborhood guide →Crocker-Amazon
Crocker Amazon Playground and Geneva Avenue.
Read neighborhood guide →Visitacion Valley
Leland Avenue and nearby green space.
Read neighborhood guide →Portola
San Bruno Avenue and McLaren Park access.
Read neighborhood guide →Silver Terrace
Hillside streets overlooking southeastern SF.
Read neighborhood guide →Bayview
Third Street corridor and waterfront history.
Read neighborhood guide →Hunters Point
Shipyard-adjacent neighborhoods and waterfront.
Read neighborhood guide →India Basin
India Basin Shoreline Park and waterfront.
Read neighborhood guide →Little Hollywood
Residential enclave near Bayshore Boulevard.
Read neighborhood guide →Candlestick Point
Bay shoreline and redevelopment areas.
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