San Francisco
consolidated city-county in California, United States
San Francisco is a city in the U.S. state of California. It is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge. With a population of 744,041, San Francisco is the 13th largest city in the United States, and the 4th largest city in California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose. It is in the northern part of California, between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. The urbanized San Francisco Bay Area surrounds it. San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish conquerors. It was called "Yerba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because mint grew there in abundance.[10] After the Mexican-American War, Yerba Buena was taken over by the United States. In 1848 it was renamed "San Francisco" and became a city in 1850. The city is famous for its many internet companies and being home to a large gay population.
San Francisco, California | |
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| City and County of San Francisco | |
 San Francisco from the Marin Headlands, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the foreground | |
 Flag | |
| Nickname(s): | |
| Motto(s): Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra (Spanish for "Gold in Peace, Iron in War") | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Founded | June 29, 1776 |
| Incorporated | April 16, 1850[7] |
| Founded by | Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu |
| Named for | Saint Francis of Assisi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-Council |
| • Mayor | London Breed |
| • Board of Supervisors | Supervisors
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| • State Assembly | Fiona Ma (D) Tom Ammiano (D) |
| • State Senate | Mark Leno (D) Leland Yee (D) |
| • U.S. House | Nancy Pelosi (D) Jackie Speier (D) |
| Area | |
| • City and county | 231.89 sq mi (600.6 km2) |
| • Land | 46.87 sq mi (121.4 km2) |
| • Water | 185.02 sq mi (479.2 km2) 79.79% |
| • Metro | 3,524.4 sq mi (9,128 km2) |
| Elevation | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Highest elevation | 925 ft (282 m) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population | CSA: 7,468,390 |
| • Density | 17,179.2/sq mi (6,632.9/km2) |
| • Urban | 3,273,190 |
| • Metro | 4,335,391 |
| Demonym(s) | San Franciscan |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (Pacific Daylight Time) |
| ZIP Code | 94101–94112, 94114–94147, 94150–94170, 94172, 94175, 94177 |
| Area code(s) | 415 |
| Website | www.sfgov.org |
ClimateEdit
San Francisco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb in the Köppen climate classification). The record high temperature is 41.1 °C (106 °F) on September 1, 2017. The record low temperature is -4.4 °C (24 °F) on December 9, 1972.
| Climate data for San Francisco (1981-2010, Sun 1961-1974, Extremes 1874-) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 26.1 (79.0) |
27.2 (81.0) |
29.4 (84.9) |
34.4 (93.9) |
38.3 (100.9) |
39.4 (102.9) |
39.4 (102.9) |
36.7 (98.1) |
41.1 (106.0) |
38.9 (102.0) |
30.0 (86.0) |
24.4 (75.9) |
41.1 (106.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 13.8 (56.8) |
15.7 (60.3) |
16.6 (61.9) |
17.3 (63.1) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.1 (66.4) |
19.2 (66.6) |
20.1 (68.2) |
21.2 (70.2) |
20.7 (69.3) |
17.3 (63.1) |
13.9 (57.0) |
17.7 (63.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) |
8.6 (47.5) |
9.2 (48.6) |
9.6 (49.3) |
10.6 (51.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
12.3 (54.1) |
12.8 (55.0) |
12.8 (55.0) |
12.1 (53.8) |
10.1 (50.2) |
7.8 (46.0) |
10.4 (50.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −3.3 (26.1) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
2.2 (36.0) |
3.9 (39.0) |
6.1 (43.0) |
6.7 (44.1) |
5.6 (42.1) |
5.0 (41.0) |
2.8 (37.0) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 114.3 (4.50) |
113.3 (4.46) |
82.8 (3.26) |
37.1 (1.46) |
17.8 (0.70) |
4.1 (0.16) |
0.0 (0.0) |
1.5 (0.06) |
5.3 (0.21) |
28.4 (1.12) |
80.3 (3.16) |
115.8 (4.56) |
600.7 (23.65) |
| Average rainy days | 11.7 | 11.1 | 11.0 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 8.9 | 11.6 | 73.0 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 185.9 | 207.7 | 269.1 | 309.3 | 325.1 | 311.4 | 313.3 | 287.4 | 271.4 | 247.1 | 173.4 | 160.6 | 3,061.7 |
| Source #1: NOAA[11][12] | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Intellicast[13] | |||||||||||||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Don't Call It Frisco". San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle. April 3, 1918. p. 6. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ↑ Although many residents still maintain that the nickname "Frisco" is taboo, many residents, especially younger and working-class natives, have kept the term alive and well. In any case, this is a matter of ongoing debate that reflects certain cultural divisions within The City.Sullivan, James (October 14, 2003). "Frisco, that once-verboten term for the city by the bay, is making a comeback among the young and hip. Herb Caen is spinning at warp speed". San Francisco Chronicle. p. D-1. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
- ↑ Some tourists refer to San Francisco as "Frisco." However, locals discourage this. Samuel D. Cohen writes that many credit "Friscophobia" to newspaper columnist Herb Caen, whose first book, published in 1953, was "Don't Call it Frisco" after a 1918 newspaper article of the same name. Caen was considered by many to be the recognized authority on what was, and what was not, beneath the city's dignity, and to him, Frisco was intolerable.Cohen, Sam (September 11, 1997). "Locals know best: only tourists call it 'Frisco'". Golden Gater Online. San Francisco State University. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2008.
- ↑ "PPIE: The City That Knows How". Amusing America. San Francisco Public Library. March 29, 2005. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
- ↑ Caen, Herb (1949). Baghdad-by-the-Bay. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-89174-047-6. OCLC 31060237. LC F869.S3 C12.
- ↑ "The City". UnknownWW2InColor. UnknownWW2InColor (Ramano-Archives). 1939. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- ↑ "Incorporation Dates of California Cities" (Word). Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "GCT-PH1 - Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- Census Tract". 2010 United States Census Summary File 1. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ↑ "GCT-PL2 - Population and Housing Occupancy Status: 2010 - United States -- Combined Statistical Area with Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Components; and for Puerto Rico". 2010 United States Census Summary File 1. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ↑ "Yerba Buena Renamed San Francisco - 1847". www.sfmuseum.org.
- ↑ http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/climate/monthdisp.php?stn=KSFO&p=temperature&mon=12&wfo=mtr&year=2017
- ↑ http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=mtr
- ↑ "Intellicast - Weather Underground". www.wunderground.com.
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