San Francisco, from directly above
37.7749° N -122.4194° W · United States
Sharpest free source hereEsri World Imagery
Resolution30 cm/px
Free · no signup · view, download a georeferenced GeoTIFF, or time-travel to 2014.
The sharpest free view of San Francisco
VNTG checks ~35 free imagery sources — national aerial surveys, Esri, live Sentinel-2 — and serves whichever is sharpest for the exact point you click. For San Francisco that's Esri World Imagery at 30 cm/px. Unlike a plain map, you can download it georeferenced, see the date it was captured, step back to 2014, and render the latest satellite pass. You're looking at the bay, bridges and grid.
What you can do with San Francisco in VNTG
- Look closer than Google, free — down to 30 cm/px.
- Download a georeferenced GeoTIFF (EPSG:3857) or PNG + world file.
- Time-travel — step San Francisco back through every year since 2014 (Esri Wayback).
- See it fresh — render the latest Sentinel-2 pass, usually days old.
- Live overlays — active fires, cloud/weather, and precipitation radar.