Nob Hill
Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions. Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighborhood in San Francisco, California
- Also known as: “Nob Hill, San Francisco”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and San Francisco Cable Car Museum.
Transamerica Pyramid
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline.
San Francisco Cable Car Museum
Museum
Photo: Jaredzimmerman (WMF), CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum.
Lombard Street
Photo: Y6y6y6, Public domain.
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nob Hill-Russian Hill and Russian Hill.
Nob Hill-Russian Hill
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Atop the hills overlooking the bay and bustling downtown San Francisco are two adjacent neighborhoods famed for their wealth, panoramic views, and the historic cable cars which still climb the steep streets of the area.
Russian Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: BDS2006, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".
Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District
Neighborhood
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District is a historic district located in downtown San Francisco, California, in an area that sits between the Nob Hill and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
Nob Hill
- Categories: neighborhood in San Francisco, neighborhood, hill, and locality
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.79448° or 37° 47′ 40″ northLongitude
-122.41559° or 122° 24′ 56″ westElevation
322 feet (98 metres)Open location code
849VQHVM+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1680475636OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Nob Hill” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نوب هيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Nob-Hill”
- Basque: “Nob Hill”
- Bosnian: “Nob Hill”
- Bulgarian: “Ноб Хил”
- Catalan: “Nob Hill”
- Cebuano: “Nob Hill (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California, San Francisco County)”
- Cebuano: “Nob Hill”
- Chinese: “诺布山”
- Chinese: “诺布山区”
- Dutch: “Nob Hill”
- Esperanto: “Nabob-Monteto”
- French: “Nob Hill”
- German: “Nob Hill”
- Italian: “Nob Hill”
- Japanese: “ノブ・ヒル”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nob Hill”
- Portuguese: “Nob Hill”
- Spanish: “Nob Hill”
- Turkish: “Nob Hill”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Polk Gulch and Chinatown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cistern at Jones & Jackson and Nob Hill.
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