By Nora Lindqvist · Updated · Affiliate links, explained in my disclosure
The only Coit Tower ticket product on GetYourGuide is the $69 Coit Tower and Little Italy walking tour, 2.5 hours, with an interior ticket included. It has no rating yet. The tower is 64 m tall, per Wikipedia. The city sells the observation level ticket directly. I’d go on a clear afternoon.
| Tour | From | Rating | Length | Free cancellation | Book |
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| Coit Tower & Little Italy Landmark Walking Tour | $69 | – | 2.5 hours | Yes | Check availability |
Coit Tower tickets work differently from most decks on this site. The tower is run by the city, the observation level ticket is sold on site, and GetYourGuide sells a walking tour that ends there. I’ll say exactly what the tour covers below. The figures here come from Wikidata, Wikipedia and Open-Meteo.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Observation level | About 9.8 m below the top of the tower, reached by elevator, per Wikipedia |
| Murals | On the ground floor, mostly free to see during open hours, per Wikipedia |
| Address | 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94133 (per Google Maps) |
| Opening hours | 10 AM to 5 PM daily on Google Maps; confirm with the city before you go |
| Google rating | 4.6 from 16,087 reviews (per Google Maps) |
| Time to allow | 30 to 45 minutes at the tower; 2.5 hours for the walking tour |
Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay.
The ticket for the observation level is sold by the city, and the official page is on sfrecpark.org. You buy it at the tower. I could not load the price page when I wrote this, so I won’t quote a fee, and I’d check it before you go. The single Coit Tower ticket product on GetYourGuide is not that ticket, so these Coit Tower tickets are for a guided walk. It is a guided walk.
The tour is called Coit Tower & Little Italy Landmark Walking Tour, run by LetzGo City Tours at $69 for 2.5 hours. The listing says the price covers exterior admission to Coit Tower and a Coit Tower interior ticket. It describes walking the first floor to see the murals and learn why they were controversial in the 1930s. It does not say the ticket takes you up to the observation level, so check that with the operator if the view is your goal.
LetzGo City Tours
My pick: The only bookable option here: a guided 2.5 hour walk through Little Italy that ends at the tower, with interior entry included. It is a tour, not a timed observation ticket.
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The stops on the listing are Saints Peter and Paul Church, Washington Square, Little Italy and Coit Tower, about 30 minutes each. You meet your guide outside the main entrance of the church at 666 Filbert Street, 15 minutes before the start. Late arrivals cannot be accommodated, and the venues can only be entered as part of the group. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours ahead. Transport, food, drink and tips are not included. The tour is in English.
There is one product, so Coit Tower tickets are easy to compare, so the Coit Tower tickets and prices comparison is short: $69 for the guided walk, and the city’s own fee for the observation level, which I have not been able to confirm. For a group, this calculator gives the total for the tour.
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Prices are the lowest per-person prices on GetYourGuide when I last checked; the final price depends on the date, time slot and age.
If you only want the view, the walk is a lot to pay for it. If you want the murals explained and a local guide through North Beach, it makes sense.
Google Maps lists Coit Tower as open from 10 AM to 5 PM, seven days a week. Treat that as a starting point and confirm on the city page, because closures and seasonal changes are common for city-run sites. The tour runs at its own start times, and anyone with Coit Tower tickets from GetYourGuide must arrive 15 minutes early.
Wikipedia says the tower was built between 1932 and 1933 with a bequest from Lillie Hitchcock Coit, and designed by Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. It was dedicated on 8 October 1933 and opened to the public on 12 October 1934, after a dispute over some of the murals. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Twenty-two artists painted the interior frescoes in a Social Realism style, with three more working offsite on oil canvas, and the murals were restored in 1990 and 2014, per Wikipedia. The guided tour is the only product among these Coit Tower tickets that deals with that story, which makes it the one I’d pick for the murals.
You cannot climb the tower itself to the viewing level. Wikipedia describes an inner shaft with the elevator and an intermediate shaft with a stairway, and says the spiral staircase murals are normally closed. The stairs people mean are on the hill. The Filbert Steps run down the east side of Telegraph Hill, with roughly 400 timber stairs and gardens beside them, per Wikipedia. The walking tour climbs the hill on foot, so expect a steady uphill stretch, then the elevator.
The fee for the observation level is set by the city, and I would not trust a figure from a third party, including me. The murals on the ground floor are mostly free to see during open hours, per Wikipedia. The one fee I can state is the $69 for the tour, which bundles guiding, the walk and interior entry. If you want the cheapest possible Coit Tower tickets, buy at the tower and check the city page first.
Google Maps shows 4.6 from 16,087 reviews, so it is a well-liked stop, and tickets for Coit Tower are rarely a gamble. The GetYourGuide tour is new in my data, with no rating or review snippets, so I can’t tell you what past guests thought of it. That is a real limit. If reviews matter to you, the cancellation window is some comfort: free up to 24 hours ahead.
I have no parking data for Coit Tower in my files, and I won’t guess at spaces or prices. The tower is at the top of Telegraph Hill, on a road that is narrow and busy. The walking tour starts at Saints Peter and Paul Church, so with these Coit Tower tickets you do not need to drive to the summit at all, and you finish at the tower.
Online, the Coit Tower tickets you can book ahead today are the GetYourGuide walk at $69. The observation level ticket is sold by the city, and the sfrecpark.org page above is where to check whether advance booking is offered. There is no skip-the-line product, since none is listed.
San Francisco fog decides the view. Open-Meteo’s 2025 data shows May as the clearest month, with 28% average cloud cover, then January at 37% and October at 39%. July was the cloudiest at 74%, followed by November at 67% and February at 65%. Those are cloud-cover averages from Open-Meteo, not fog statistics, so treat them as a guide.
| Month | Sunset (Los Angeles time) | Cloud cover | Sunshine a day | Rainy days |
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| Janclearest | 17:15 | 37% | 8.1 h | 2 |
| Feb | 17:49 | 65% | 6.5 h | 12 |
| Mar | 19:17 | 58% | 9.5 h | 12 |
| Apr | 19:45 | 51% | 11.3 h | 3 |
| Mayclearest | 20:13 | 28% | 13.3 h | 1 |
| Jun | 20:33 | 40% | 12.8 h | 0 |
| Jul | 20:30 | 74% | 11.3 h | 0 |
| Aug | 20:01 | 50% | 12 h | 0 |
| Sep | 19:16 | 48% | 10.4 h | 2 |
| Octclearest | 18:31 | 39% | 8.9 h | 5 |
| Nov | 16:57 | 67% | 7.7 h | 8 |
| Dec | 16:51 | 61% | 6.6 h | 9 |
Sunset runs from 16:51 in December to 20:33 in June. I’d arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, but check the closing time first, because a 5 PM close beats a 4:51 PM winter sunset. Pick your date below.
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Sunset and cloud cover for the same dates in 2025 at the deck (Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5), 2025); sunset moves by about a minute between years.
Telegraph Hill rises 285 feet (87 m), per Wikipedia, and the observation level is about 9.8 m below the 64 m top of the tower, per Wikipedia. Adding those gives an eye height of roughly 141 m above sea level, which is my own sum and not an official figure.
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Geometric horizon d ≈ 3.57 × √h (km, h in metres); refraction adds about 8%. Haze and clouds usually limit the real view first. Formula: Distance to the horizon.
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Open in Google MapsCoit Tower tickets cover one tour product and a city-run tower, so I compare it with the free viewpoints from Google Maps. The other San Francisco deck on this site is the SkyStar Wheel, a ticketed Ferris wheel.
| Place | Google rating | Reviews | Distance from the tower | Free or paid |
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| Coit Tower | 4.6 | 16,087 | n/a | Paid for the observation level; tour from $69 |
| Telegraph Hill Viewpoint | 4.8 | 10 | 0.11 km (0.07 mi) | Free |
| Transamerica Viewpoint of City | 4.9 | 22 | 0.24 km (0.15 mi) | Free |
| Bay Bridge Lookout | 4.8 | 38 | 1.82 km (1.13 mi) | Free |
| Twin Peaks | 4.7 | 13,908 | 6.61 km (4.11 mi) | Free |
| Battery Spencer | 4.8 | 5,948 | 7.24 km (4.50 mi) | Free |
The nearest free viewpoint, on Telegraph Hill itself, has only 10 reviews, so I read its rating with caution.
I think so on a clear day. Wikipedia puts the observation level about 9.8 m below the top of the 64 m tower, and the tower stands on Telegraph Hill, so the view takes in the bay, Alcatraz and the skyline. The ground-floor murals are a second reason to go.
The observation level ticket is sold by the city, and I could not load the Recreation and Parks price page, so I won't quote a figure. Check sfrecpark.org before you go. The only product on GetYourGuide is a $69 walking tour that includes an interior ticket.
Partly. Wikipedia says most of the murals can be seen free of charge during open hours, and they are on the ground floor. Going up to the observation level needs a separate ticket from the city. Check the Recreation and Parks page for the current fee.
Not to the top. Wikipedia describes an inner shaft with the elevator and an intermediate shaft with a stairway, and says the spiral staircase murals are normally closed. The observation level is reached by elevator. You can walk up Telegraph Hill itself, including the Filbert Steps.
You take the elevator, so the ride is short. Plan on 30 to 45 minutes for the murals and the view. The GetYourGuide walking tour lasts 2.5 hours in total, including 30 minutes at the tower, plus time getting up Telegraph Hill on foot.
Google Maps lists Coit Tower as open 10 AM to 5 PM every day. That is the listing as scraped, so confirm it on the Recreation and Parks page, because hours and closures change. The tour on this page runs at its own times, so check the listing for your date.