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San Francisco

United States · SFO · UTC-8
37.77°N
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122.42°W
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US
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US
country
A scenic view of San Francisco's coastal skyline with beachfront and urban landscape.
Avg trip cost · 5 nights
€768
mid-range, all-in
Best month
May
14°C · mild crowds
CO₂ from Berlin
1240 kg
short/long-haul · DEFRA
Match for "city + culture"
55
category match
Cost across the year

5-night trip · all-in · per traveler

flight + lodging + on-ground · 7-day rolling median

€648
cheapest · Jan
€650 €750 €850 €950 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec €720 · best
↑ peak summer · €1008 (Jun) · ↓ winter dip · €648 (Jan)
Best time to visit

May. By a mile.

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May, decomposed
Climate comfort
33
Crowd level
88
Price index
94
Sunshine
100
Event impact
72
Things to do

Six honest picks. Not sixty.

From Wikipedia + OpenStreetMap. No affiliate links, no crowd bias.

Museums

Musée Mécanique

The Musée Mécanique is a for-profit interactive museum of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts, located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. With over 300 mechanical machines, it is one of the world's largest privately owned collections.

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GLBT History Museum

The GLBT Historical Society maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to LGBTQ history in the United States, with a focus on the LGBTQ communities of San Francisco and Northern California.

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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Lawrence Hall of Science is a public science center in Berkeley, California that offers hands-on science exhibits, designs curriculum, aids professional development, and offers after school science resources to students of all ages. The Lawrence was established in 1968 in honor of physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), the University of California's first Nobel laureate. The center is located in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley campus, less than a mile uphill from the University's Botanical Garden.

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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. The museum building and its permanent collection are owned by the City of San Francisco.

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Cable Car Powerhouse and Barn

The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The collection is displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art. In 2024, SFMOMA was ranked 14th in the Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S.

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Getting there

Open Best Way
Flight from Berlin
recommended
door-to-door · 1 traveler
time
9h 15m
cost
€480
CO₂
1240 kg
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