Effective immediately, you can look up the store hours of many shops and civil service offices in and around San Francisco quickly and conveniently. That way you will hopefully never stand in front of closed doors again. Because who has not yet experienced the following situation: You quickly want to take a parcel to the post office or do some last minute grocery shopping and you find yourself in front of closed doors. With iStorehours this is now a thing of the past. The website presents you with the store hours of thousands of cities in the U.S. at the push of a button. Of course this also includes stores of San Francisco.

And that’s how it works: You simply enter the search term, for example a restaurant or a department store like Walmart into the search box and add the requested location. Right away you receive a list of all registered opening hours. Once you click on the requested entry, you also receive additional information such as telephone or fax number, website or even the location of the sought-after store on the map.

There are already over one million opening hours existent in the directory and another 4,000 are added on a daily basis. The whole thing works a bit similar to Wikipedia, in a way that anybody can register and enter opening hours. What makes it so special is the fact that with each entry you can earn points that can be cashed in later on. Already existing entries can of course also be revised, changed or deleted. For example if a store has moved location or changed its store hours.

But at iStorehours you will not only find the opening hours of stores, government agencies or other facilities. Everything with opening hours can be entered. That includes for example libraries, museums, stores like subway sandwich or municipal facilities in San Francisco and surrounding areas. And the store hours of San Francisco are now even available as an app: For Android as well as for iPhone, there are apps with whom you can now check and view the opening hours on your way.

What makes iStorehours unique in comparison to other directories? The fact that for each entry there are also the corresponding store hours available. In other directories you will often find the particular store and maybe even an image but what is most often missing are the opening hours. And these are of course of special interest, particularly when you still have to quickly shop or run an errand outside of regular store hours. By now there are over 25,000 users registered, so that daily thousands of new opening hours can be entered, including San Francisco. Funny enough, it seems to be the mall opening hours that are the most popular. Even though one would think that in a mall most stores have similar opening hours, this information is looked up most frequently. By the way: The features are constantly extended, so there is for example a route planner to the store offered now, and you can even print the store hours as a PDF document for your use on the way.