Mount Tamalpais State Park is covered by a blanket of fog in Mill Valley on Sunday. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Summer in San Francisco is famously cool.
It’s a fact first-time visitors inevitably learn about the city June through August.
While some find the fog-enshrouded vistas bizarre, gray days are nothing new for locals who know the usual California escape can rarely be had in the City by the Bay.
June Gloom and Fog-ust are realities of San Francisco living.
Meteorologists are accustomed to explaining the workings of the marine layer that chills San Francisco while the rest of the Bay Area swelters.
San Francisco’s position on the peninsula, mostly surrounded by water, creates conditions for many foggy days, averaging about 108 per year.
Salesforce Tower in San Francisco is shrouded in fog on June 14, 2023. | Isaac Ceja/The StandardWomen watch a foggy ocean sunset from Mount Tamalpais State Park in Marin County on Sunday. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesJohnathan Marquez plays tennis during a foggy summer day at Dolores Park in San Francisco on July 6, 2023. | Isaac Ceja/The StandardSan Francisco's most iconic weather phenomenon, the fog, blankets the Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from Marin Headlands in Sausalito on Sunday. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesJerry Faial, left, and his daughter, Solea Faial, right, spend time at Ocean Beach under the fog in San Francisco on Thursday. | Isaac Ceja/The StandardThe Takeuchi family poses in front of the Pride sign in San Francisco on June 24, 2023. | Justin Katigbak for The StandardFog hangs over the bay with Coit Tower in the foreground in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. | Isaac Ceja/The StandardFog hovers over the San Francisco Pride Board Resistance Contingent marching down Market Street during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 25, 2023. | Miikka Skaffari/WireImage/Getty ImagesSteve Jones, left, and Jay Jones, right, prepare to surf at Ocean Beach under the fog in San Francisco on Thursday. | Isaac Ceja/The StandardA full moon rises over the Golden Gate Bridge shrouded in a thin veil of fog during hazy night, as seen from Marin Headlands in Sausalito on Saturday. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
