It is ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States[300] and operates the UCSF Medical Center, which ranks as the number one hospital in California and the number 5 in the country. Time zones for airports and weather stations are provided by AskGeo.com . The western terminus of the historic transcontinental Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, is in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. Search by a Range of Dates or the Same Dates Over a Range of Years! There are more than 220 parks maintained by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department. [56]

[154], Homelessness, historically, has been a major problem in the city and remains a growing problem in modern times. [107] On average, there are 73 rainy days a year, and annual precipitation averages 23.65 inches (601 mm). To learn more about weather station terminology, please consult the Weather Observation Station page of the NCDC. The brightest day of the year is June 27, with an average of 8.4 kWh. This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. To get a sense of "typical" weather over a range of dates, we also offer an Enhanced Weather History Search that makes finding out easy. [276], The municipal budget for fiscal year 2015–16 was $8.99 billion,[277] and is one of the largest city budgets in the United States. [139]

Chinatown Shootings May Be Tied to Gang", "Boy, 16, Arrested in S.F. There were about 4,469 burglaries, 25,100 thefts, and 4,210 motor vehicle thefts. San Francisco theaters frequently host pre-Broadway engagements and tryout runs,[246] and some original San Francisco productions have later moved to Broadway. Also within the Presidio is Crissy Field, a former airfield that was restored to its natural salt marsh ecosystem. In South San Francisco, the average percentage of the sky covered by clouds experiences significant seasonal variation over the course of the year. Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray. [38][39][40] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. [255][256] It also ranks fifth in the U.S. for park access and quality in the 2018 ParkScore ranking of the top 100 park systems across the United States, according to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land. Second Option: We will provide you with our History Weather API and you could get data by Postcode/Zipcode, Lat/Lon, IP address, city name and airport code. ", "Board of Supervisors District Information", "Ed Lee becomes the city's first Chinese American mayor", "Foreign Consular Offices in the United States, 2007", "Budget and Appropriation Ordinance as of July 21, 2015 – Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2016 and June 30, 2017", "Analysis of spending in America's largest cities – Ballotpedia", "1 in 3 San Francisco employees earned $100,000", Crime in the United States, 2012, Table 8, "Through hard times, S.F. Development of the Port of San Francisco and the establishment in 1869 of overland access to the eastern U.S. rail system via the newly completed Pacific Railroad (the construction of which the city only reluctantly helped support[55]) helped make the Bay Area a center for trade. [347] Since 2006, San Francisco has received a Bicycle Friendly Community status of "Gold" from the League of American Bicyclists. The stations contributing to this reconstruction are: San Francisco International Airport (76%, 5.4 kilometers, southeast) and Naval Air Station Alameda (historical) (24%, 12 kilometers, northeast). San Francisco's two University of California institutions have recently formed an official affiliation in the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. Between the years of 1999 and 2000, the job growth rate was 4.9%, creating over 50,000 jobs in technology firms and internet content production. Together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. 84 F San Francisco International Airport Station | Report.

[191] San Francisco is now widely considered the most important city in the world for new technology startups. city.[151][152]. [272], San Francisco serves as the regional hub for many arms of the federal bureaucracy, including the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the U.S. Mint. [324] The system operates a combined light rail and subway system, the Muni Metro, as well as large bus and trolley coach networks. [229] It started in 1984 and is California's third-largest single-day, outdoor spectator event and the world's largest leather event and showcase for BDSM products and culture.[230]. 1 in a study that examined which U.S. metro areas have produced the most Major Leaguers since 1920.[259]. The city, and the surrounding Bay Area, is a global center of the sciences and arts[42][43] and is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of San Francisco (USF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences. Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The 5-megawatt plant more than tripled the city's 2-megawatt solar generation capacity when it opened in December 2010. [citation needed]. [155], In 2017, 7,500 homeless people were officially counted in the city, two-thirds of whom were dealing with serious health issues like mental illness or HIV. KQED-FM is the most-listened-to National Public Radio affiliate in the country. BONUS: You’ll also receive our Almanac Companion newsletter! The city constructed an auxiliary water supply system and has repeatedly upgraded its building codes, requiring retrofits for older buildings and higher engineering standards for new construction. The city's first television station was KPIX, which began broadcasting in 1948. The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds. [267] The Escape from Alcatraz triathlon has, since 1980, attracted 2,000 top professional and amateur triathletes for its annual race. La Serena, Chile (5,725 miles away) and Anglesea, Australia (7,927 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to South San Francisco (view comparison). You have not set any favorites yet. 71 F San Francisco International Airport Station | Report. The resulting soil liquefaction causes extensive damage to property built upon it, as was evidenced in the Marina district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The San Francisco Bay Area is the sixth-largest television market[235] and the fourth-largest radio market[236] in the U.S.