San Francisco Airfares

San Francisco, California

By iCheapAirfares Staff: Located in the "Bay Area" of Northern California, this compact city of 750,000 crams its inhabitants into 47 sq miles of hilltops and steep grades. San Francisco is a cultural, social, open-minded city where much of the population uses forms of transportation other than the automobile, and therefore gets to know their neighbors and community areas better. Maybe this is a reason why San Francisco is so famous for its vehicles of transportation, including red cable cars and the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and for its transpiration infrastructure, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge.

Before you go to San Francisco to leave your heart, bring your jacket. San Francisco can get chilly even in the summer, which lead Mark Twain to coin the phrase, "The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco". Many tourists like to call San Francisco - "Frisco" - but the locals like to semi-pompously refer to it as "The City". Must do activities in San Francisco include grabbing a clam chowder bread bowl at the Embarcadero, driving across the Golden Gate Bridge up through Marin County, eating dim sum in Chinatown and taking a boat ride to Alcatraz Island. Go!