Free Walking Tours of San Francisco

Our City at Your Feet

70 Unique Tours. 300 Volunteers. 48 Years.

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Why Tour With Us

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No-Cost Tours

Our 1.5 to 2 hour tours are always free, but we welcome donations to support our mission of keeping San Francisco’s history accessible.

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Expert Tour Guides

Our tour guides go through extensive training to learn about the history of our beautiful city and how to share that history with you.

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A Tour for Everyone

We offer over 70 different tours – allowing you to learn about the diverse ways that San Francisco became the vibrant city it is today.

About Us

City Guides, founded in 1978, is an independent 501c3 non-profit organization with more than 300 trained volunteers who lead FREE historical and architectural walking tours in San Francisco for over 35,000 locals and visitors each year. We are a program of the San Francisco Public Library. Join us for a walk along the streets, sidewalks, and byways of America’s most beautiful – and fascinating – city!

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I did 4 different tours through city guide and all of them were great. I really enjoyed the Dogpatch tour and learned about an area I’ve never even heard of. Also went to Presidio, Castro, Japanese gardens. Tours last about 2 hrs. Trip Advisor Review
I wasn’t able to travel during the last few months, so I decided to become a tourist in San Francisco, my own beautiful backyard. Despite having lived in the East Bay for 50+ years, I still had a lot to learn about SF. Enter SF City Guides. To date, I have been on these tours: Chinatown, the Mission, Coit Tower, Hitchcock, and the Transit Center. Excellent guides and informative, interesting infor Google Review
I recently took an SF City Guides tour titled Barbary Coast, and it was awesome. I learned so much and was given many issues to reconsider about the status of women in history. So many interesting and remarkable elements are present in San Francisco that, for me, would go unnoticed but for City Guides tours pointing them out. Thank you!! Trip Advisor Review
One of the best ways to see San Francisco on the cheap! SF.FunCheap.com
Our tour was really fun! I have lived in SF for 20 years and this was my first walking tour with SF City Guides. I would absolutely recommend our walking tour! Google Review
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