Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately 25 miles south of San Francisco.
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately 25 miles south of San Francisco. Its population was 11,795 as of the 2020 census. Immediately north of Half Moon Bay is Pillar Point Harbor and the unincorporated community of Princeton-by-the-Sea. Half Moon Bay is known for Mavericks, a big-wave surf location. It is called Half Moon Bay because of its crescent shape.
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Worth seeing in and around Half Moon Bay
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01California's 14th congressional district
California's 14th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. It is currently represented by Aisha Wahab, a Democrat from Hayward, who took office on September 2, 2026.
5.6 km · U.S. House district centered on San Francisco, CA · Wikipedia - 02Montara Mountain
Montara Mountain, positioned between the unincorporated community of Montara, California, to the southwest and the city of Pacifica, California, to the north, forms the northern spur of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a narrow mountain range running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. Its highest point rises to 1,898 feet above sea level.
7.8 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia - 03Poplar Beach
Poplar Beach is a beach located in and operated by the city of Half Moon Bay, California. It lies at the end of Poplar Street west of State Route 1.
800 m · beach in California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Community United Methodist Church
The Community United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay, California. Originally the Methodist Episcopal Church at Half Moon Bay, it was built in 1872 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
1 km · Historic church building in Half Moon Bay, California, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Half Moon Bay
- Airports
- San Francisco (SFO), 19 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 35 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 46 km
- Stations
- Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield, 8.3 km · Pillar Point Harbor, 6.4 km
- San Jose → Half Moon Bay4904 km · quickest by air, 13h 32m · $820–1,260
- Sacramento → Half Moon Bay149 km · quickest by road, 3h · $15–20
- Fresno → Half Moon Bay249 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $24–33
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Half Moon Bay
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Half Moon Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Half Moon Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay is 35 km from San Francisco, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Princeton-by-the-Seahuman settlement in California, United States of America6.7 km