Weather 3D

From the Ferry Building through SoMa to Mission Bay: the larger 3D map includes Anthropic on Howard Street and OpenAI at 1455 and 1515 Third Street, with its connecting glass bridges. Use the place selector to visit either location.

Choose your own view

Drag to rotate the city and use the mouse wheel to zoom. On a phone, rotate with one finger and pinch with two fingers to change the distance.

Use the place selector to move between landmarks. The compass points north and the fullscreen symbol expands the scene. Open More 3D controls for the additional functions; Pause animation stops the movement.

Now, later and freely chosen

The timeline shows the available next 48 hours in San Francisco local time. Now returns to the current time. Tomorrow and Day after tomorrow offer further times where the forecast is available.

Live weather uses the latest available data. For later times you see a forecast. Weather details include the values and their update time; the scene is not a weather camera.

Choose Demo to enter the weather lab. Sunshine, rain, thunderstorms, snow, fog and gales can be selected freely. Your choice applies to the experiment; it does not change a weather forecast.

Behind the scene

Weather data comes via Open-Meteo. Sun and moon positions are calculated for San Francisco and the selected time. People, traffic and palms are animated; their movement responds to the weather.

Water levels and fog are illustrative model settings, not local measurements or flood forecasts. Official warnings are available from the National Weather Service.

Building footprints and terrain are prepared for the city model, missing heights are supplemented and details are simplified. Open Licence for the geodata sources, processing notes and terms of use. The required derived geodata is available free of charge on request through that page.