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Pacifica is a city in San Mateo County spread along about six miles of Pacific coastline between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay.

Pacifica was incorporated on November 22, 1957, as the union of nine previously separate unincorporated coastal communities, including Edgemar, Sharp Park, Pacific Manor, Vallemar and Rockaway Beach, and the name "Pacifica" was chosen by a vote.

Many of Pacifica's neighborhoods began as stops on the short-lived Ocean Shore Railroad, which was built in the early 1900s to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz but was abandoned in 1921.

Pacifica had a population of 38,640 at the 2020 census.

Pacifica has about 13,915 households, with an average of 2.66 people per household.

In 1769 the Portola expedition viewed San Francisco Bay for the first time from Sweeney Ridge in present-day Pacifica, and the Portola Discovery Site there is a designated National Landmark within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Pacifica preserves the Sanchez Adobe, built in 1846 by Francisco Sanchez on the Mexican land grant Rancho San Pedro, which had been granted to him in 1839; the adobe is now a San Mateo County museum and park.

Pacifica's Sharp Park Golf Course was designed in 1931 by famed golf architect Alister MacKenzie, on part of 410 acres that Honora Sharp donated to San Francisco for recreation.

Pacifica is well known regionally as a surfing destination, especially Linda Mar Beach at Pacifica State Beach, which draws surfers and families year-round.

Hiking areas in and around Pacifica include Mori Point, Milagra Ridge and Sweeney Ridge, all coastal open spaces with trails above the ocean.