7 Ways to Spend a Rainy Day in San Francisco Amid the Pandemic

Brew some tea, open up your laptop, and don’t bother with ‘real’ pants

Matt Charnock
4 min readNov 18, 2020
The Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, viewed through a blurry, rain-streaked window.
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As denizens of the City by the Bay, we’re all too accustomed to dim skies and seemingly endless (albeit light) rainfall. But before the pandemic, you could at least subscribe to a conventional trove of rainy day activities to ease that internal gloom: Eat a warm, indoor meal at your favorite local eatery, grab some coffee to sip inside a nearby café, take a craft-making course, you name it.

Alas, that was a time before LED and spray-painted face masks were a thing and social distancing was something you’d associate with unplugging from Instagram and Twitter. However, that’s not to say you can’t make the best of these dreary conditions — oftentimes without even having to put on real clothes.

Here are seven ways to spend your day off from the outdoors amid a global pandemic.

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1. Go on a socially distant museum trip (or virtual tour)

With many of our local museums and galleries now open to the public (albeit at reduced capacities), you can now visit them — masks on…

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Matt Charnock
Matt Charnock

Written by Matt Charnock

SF transplant, coffee shop frequent; tiny living enthusiast. iPhone hasn’t been off silent mode in nine or so years. Former EIC of The Bold Italic.

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