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Outdoors in San Francisco

San Francisco ranks T#91 of 134 US cities for outdoors, with a Outdoors score of 32 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 33rd percentile nationally and #10 of 18 in California.

Outdoors score
32
Some Fun
National rank
T#91 of 134
In California
#10 of 18
Percentile
33rd

The typical city scores 50 for outdoors; San Francisco sits 18 points below the median.

How outdoors is measured

Parks, beaches and easy access to nature.

Data sources: OpenStreetMap parks, nature reserves, playgrounds and beaches, plus National Park Service units and Recreation.gov federal facilities.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around San Francisco

  1. #89 North Las Vegas, NV 34
  2. #90 San Diego, CA 33
  3. T#91 San Francisco, CA — this page 32
  4. #93 Charlotte, NC 31
  5. #94 Orlando, FL 30

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Top US cities for outdoors

  1. #1 Aspen, CO 93
  2. T#2 Gatlinburg, TN 92
  3. T#2 Stowe, VT 92
  4. T#2 Telluride, CO 92
  5. T#5 Jackson, WY 91

More about San Francisco

San Francisco scores 96 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: