Towns & cities

San Francisco Bay Area

metropolitan area in California, United States

United States · 37.8100, -122.3700

San Francisco Bay Area is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 24 productions, in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“The film uses extensive location footage of the San Francisco Bay Area.”

Vertigo (1958) · Wikipedia

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names San Francisco Bay Area as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Vertigo 1958
Mrs. Doubtfire 1993
A View to a Kill 1985
MythBusters 2003–
“Experiments requiring more space or special accommodations were filmed on location, typically around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California, going to other states, or even countries, when required.” Wikipedia
Contagion 2011
Hulk 2003
“The project was filmed primarily in California from March to August 2002, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
Zodiac 2007
Steve Jobs 2015
My Name Is Khan 2010
The Game 1997
Harold and Maude 1971
The Caine Mutiny 1954
“In addition to the Pearl Harbor and San Francisco Bay Area locations, including the Caine steaming back and forth several times under the Golden Gate Bridge, the romantic subplot features scenes shot on location at Yosemite National Park.” Wikipedia
Copycat 1995
Hereafter 2010
Sneakers 1992
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 2010
The Champion 1915
“The Champion was filmed entirely on location in downtown Niles, California, at the corner of G Street and Niles Boulevard, around the Essanay Studio, as the second of five films Chaplin made for Essanay in the San Francisco Bay Area before returning to Los Angeles to finish out his one-year contract with Essanay.” Wikipedia
Nine Months 1995
Looking 2014–2016
Nash Bridges 1996–
“The show was produced and filmed on location in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012
“Pat Jackson, the film's sound effects editor, said that the biggest challenge in doing sound for the film was "making the archival footage and the live-action footage shot locally appear seamless." Much of the film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the abandoned 16th Street station in Oakland standing in for the Hotel Florida.” Wikipedia
Desperate Measures 1998
Leonard Part 6 1987
“The film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965
“The climactic chase sequence was filmed in the Bay Area.” Wikipedia

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in San Francisco Bay Area, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Watch Dogs 2 2016
“The game features an open world set in the San Francisco Bay Area, an area more than twice as large as the Chicagoland setting from Watch Dogs.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in San Francisco Bay Area?

24 productions are recorded as filmed in San Francisco Bay Area, including Vertigo (1958), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and A View to a Kill (1985). 24 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in San Francisco Bay Area?

Vertigo (1958), covered by 66 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Francisco Bay Area?

San Francisco Bay Area is in the United States. Its coordinates are 37.8100, -122.3700.

What other filming locations are near San Francisco Bay Area?

Administration Building, Treasure Island (under 1 km), Naval Station Treasure Island (2 km north), Treasure Island (2 km north), San Francisco Ferry Building (3 km south-west) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.