Air-Conditioned Cocktail Bars in San Francisco

[updated list 2025]

It’s unusual to have air conditioned bars in foggy San Francisco, outside of hotels. So when it gets hot (if you don’t live here, “unbearably hot” is > 80F) people get weird and desperate.

Which bars in San Francisco have air conditioning?  Here’s what I’ve found so far:

• Absinthe
• Barcha
• Bear Vs. Bull
• Blackbird
• Blondie’s
• Boulevard
• Cold Drinks
• Corridor
• Ginger’s
• Ha-Ra Club
• Hardwood
• Heartwood
• The Interval at Long Now
• The Lark Bar
• Last Rites
• Laszlo
• Lilah
• Maggie McGarry’s
• Meski
• Midnight Sun
• Pabu
• Parallel 37
• Perry’s Union Street
• Press Club
• The Progress
• Propagation
• R Bar
• Rudi’s Sports Bar
• Rye
• The Vault
• True Laurel
• Woodbury and Alchemist
• Wildhawk

East Bay

• Hangar One, Alameda
• Hotsy Totsy, Albany
• Bull Valley Roadhouse
• Redfield Cider

Let me know if you know of any more. I have deleted many closed venues from this list but I know I am missing a lot of new ones!