San Francisco is a city which has a great reputation for offering some of the wildest and most exciting nightlife in the USA. Thanks to its long history as a fairly liberal place, San Francisco is well known as the Gay capital of America, and offers many fabulous clubs where there is plenty of great music and entertainment along with friendly people.

Of course, there is a vibrant straight scene in San Francisco too, and the city boasts many of the top music venues in the country. San Francisco was at the heart of the hippy revolution in the USA during ht e1960s, and to this day, its venues such as the Fillmore frequently boast fantastic live music from the biggest names in pop and rock, and this, along with the rest of the San Francisco bars and clubs mean that whenever you visit the city you are sure to have a great time when the sun goes down.

San Francisco has a vast student population thanks to the presence of Berkeley and Stanford as well as several minor colleges, and this means that the average age of the population is quite young. With many younger people, the nightlife in the city is very varied with something to appeal to all tastes, from wild nights in European style dance clubs through to western bars where you can listen to country music.

There are a number of different areas where you can go out in San Francisco, and many different parts of the city boast very different experiences for visitors. For most visitors, the best areas to go out in are situated in the main tourist area around Union Square. This is where you can find the most up scale bars and clubs in San Francisco. It is a particularly trendy area, and many of the bars have a fairly tight door policy, meaning that you will normally have to dress quite smartly to get access.

If you are looking for a more laid back and relaxed experience of drinking and socializing in San Francisco bars and clubs, then head for the Presidio. Here on the steeply sloping streets you will find main bohemian drinking venues that offer a completely different side of the city which really harks back to the golden age of the 1960s when the summer of love took place in the city.