So its sunset in San Francisco and somehow it’s still 65 and holding, you need a hot bar with a cool drink. Follow our handy guide to San Francisco rooftop bars and in no time you'll be bleary eyed and belligerently cheersing the sun. We've added a few enclosed bars that sit way up in the clouds just in case the fog’s rolled in but you still want to get your view on behind glass.

Medjool
Hands down this is one of San Francisco’s premier rooftop bars. Come for the DJs that spin all weekend, stay for the food, people watch, dance, ride the elevator, and enjoy watching the crazy goings on the mission below. The crowd is the regular assortment of San Fran venue vultures, hipsters, preps from the marina, Mission type post-emo kids, tourists, and regular Joe schmoes. The great thing about Medjool though is that its like that first scene in the Warriors when all the gangs of New York are assembled to listen to one leader - in this case substitute a leader for a pomegranate paloma and you've got yourself a match. Just be warned: just like heaven, it's cash-only upstairs.

Medjool
2522 Mission St

The Orchard Garden Hotel
This bar is an Oasis of calm when the city is too hot for super skinny jeans and serves up a great happy hour that will definitely take the edge off. Between 4:00p.m. and 7:00p.m., the bar serves a free appetizer with any drink off its cocktail menu, which you are then free to take up to their unmanned rooftop. Save yourself the hassle of lots of mini trips and order up a few rounds of chartreuse then hit the roof in style. Enjoy great views of the San Francisco skyline with your crew. On top of that, the hotel is completely green and helps the environment as it hurts your liver. As an added bonus you can wow your friends by introducing them to this brand new hot spot and take the credit for the discovery. Don't worry, your secret's safe with us.

The Orchard Garden Hotel
466 Bush St

Marines Memorial
This is another undiscovered gem that sits high in might in sky and actually is about eye level to the Star Light lounge. As long as you don't mind being surrounded by shouts of "hoorah" and lots of male bonding, the drinks are cheap and plentiful, the view is stellar and the crowd is older but they can drink harder then you can. They say freedom isn't free, but buy these battle hardened group of vets a few rounds and you'll definitely help pay the price.

Marines Memorial
609 Sutter Street

Hyatt Regency
The Hyatt Regency is one of the best San Francisco rooftop bars in the city. Forget the fact that this is another cheesy hotel bar, that its atrium is a hotbed of lost tourists confused about mystery bars in the tenderloin, and focus on the fact that the top floor rotates. Focus on that, not the price of drinks, not even those patron poppers from down in the lobby - the bar actually rotates. For added bonus this is where Hitchcock filmed those crazy scenes in Vertigo. So Grab a martini and stage a cameo in your own blackout.

Hyatt Regency
5 Embarcadero Center

Top of The Mark
Go big or go home--that's the feeling at the top of the Mark. Whether you've just made a million in the tech sector or owe a ton on your student loans, this is the place to feel like the cream of the crop. Sure, everything costs more (a whole lot more), but that's what it takes to be at the top. Take a gander of the 100 Martinis List as you take in the sunset and enjoy the best views San Francisco has to offer.

Top of The Mark
One Nob Hill (999 California St)