Where You Can Still Find Available Restrooms in SF During COVID-19
Your go-to places to go in San Francisco have shut down restroom access under shelter-in-place, as Macy’s, hotel lobbies, and pot dispensaries have mostly closed their public bathrooms these days. But there are still restrooms you can use all over town. We’ve got an updated list of still-open public washrooms where you can still take a perfectly sanitary pee or even a dignified poop whilst you’re out doing essential work or errands, or if you just don’t have reliable access to a restroom at that particular moment.
This San Francisco public bathroom map shows dots, crosses, and flowers in the spots where you can still find a functioning and passably clean washroom. Some of these are the JC Decaux kiosks that do a full self-cleaning after each use, others are temporary COVID-19 facilities that won’t be there forever. But it’s nice to have them available during this strange period when restaurants and gas stations have mostly shut down the loo.
These facilities come courtesy of the SF Pit Stop program, and they are far better maintained than the porta-potties at, say, music festivals or Burning Man. The ones that aren’t self-cleaning have an attendant on duty (haha!), with working sinks, and generally a good supply of soap and paper towels.
If you know of other SF bathroom locations, lay down some pipe up in the comments below and we will add them. But the Broke-Ass Bathroom Availability I-Team has found this list of public bathrooms in San Francisco that are open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bayview
Mendell Plaza – Mon-Fri – Open 24 hours
2111 Jennings St. – Open 24 hours
245 Bayshore Blvd. – Open 24 hours
Selby St. and McKinnon Ave. – Open 24 hours
200 Napoleon St. – Open 24 hours
1100 Thomas Ave. – Open 24 hours
1900 Evans St. – Open 24 hours
Castro
Market and Castro streets (JCDecaux) – Open 24 hours
Market and Church streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – 9am to 8pm
2300 Market St. – Open 24 hours
Cathedral Hill
Willow Street, between Van Ness and Franklin – Open 24 hours
Larch Street, between Van Ness and Franklin – Open 24 hours
Civic Center
Grove and Larkin streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Larkin and McAllister streets – Temporarily Closed
The Embarcadero
Embarcadero Plaza (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Haight
Haight and Buena Vista Ave West – Mon-Fri – 12pm to 7pm
Stanyan and Waller streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Lower Polk
Myrtle and Larkin streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Mid-Market
Hallidie Plaza (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
U.N. Plaza (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Mission
16th and Capp streets – Mon-Fri – 11am to 6pm
16th and Mission streets (JCDecaux) – Open 24 hours
18th and Mission streets – Mon-Fri – 12:30pm to 7:30pm
24th and Mission streets (JCDecaux) – Open 24 hours
23rd St. and Treat Ave. – Open 24 hours
344 14th St. – Open 24 hours
1661 15th St. – Open 24 hours
1645 Bryant St. – Open 24 hours
1850 Bryant St. – Open 24 hours
220 San Bruno Ave. – Open 24 hours
Harrison and 26h streets – Open 24 hours
Cesar Chavez and Potrero Ave. – Open 24 hours
SFGH, near SE corner of Building 25 – Open 24 hours
SFGH, near SE corner of Building 80/90 – Open 24 hours
100 Main St. – Daily – Open 24 hours
Florida and Division streets – Daily – Open 24 hours
North Beach
Washington Square at Union St. (JCDecaux) – Daily – 9am to 8pm
Ocean Beach
Great Highway near Beach Chalet – Mon-Fri – 11am to 6pm
Outer Sunset
Judah and La Playa streets (Rec Park) – Daily – 8am to 8pm
Richmond
18th Ave. and Geary Blvd. – Open 24 hours
24th Ave. and Balboa St. – Open 24 hours
48th Ave. and Fulton St. – Open 24 hours
SoMa
6th and Jessie streets – Open 24 hours
Victoria Manalo Draves Park (Rec Park) – Daily – Open 24 hours
Mission and Seventh streets – Open 24 hours
Mission and Ninth streets – Open 24 hours
148 Sixth St. – Open 24 hours
5th and Bryant streets (Brannan St. by the parking lot gate inside the striped parking area on 5th St.) – Open 24 hours
Tenderloin
133 Golden Gate Ave. – Daily – Open 24 hours
101 Hyde St. – Daily – Open 24 hours
Eddy St. and Jones St. (JCDecaux) – Daily – Open 24 hours
388 Ellis St. – Daily – Open 24 hours
Eddy St. and Larkin St. – Daily – Open 24 hours
Willow and Franklin streets – Open 24 hours
Leavenworth and Turk streets – Open 24 hours
O’Farrell and Taylor streets – Open 24 hours
180 Jones St. – Open 24 hours