San Francisco Bay is a bay on the northern California coast, joining the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers via Suisun and San Pablo Bays with the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate. The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 4.84 ft (1.48 m) at the Alameda station in the central bay.
- Type
- Bay
- Location
- California, United States
- Setting
- On the northern California coast, joining the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers via Suisun and San Pablo Bays with the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate
- Tidal range
- The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 4.84 ft (1.48 m) at the Alameda station in the central bay.
- Notable
- The bay is spanned by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936; eastern span replaced 2013), the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (1956), and the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge (1929; replaced 1967); the Port of Oakland is the principal container terminal on the bay (Bay Area Toll Authority / Port of Oakland).
