Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California, Historic wharf in Monterey, California, United States.

Fisherman's Wharf is a wooden pier extending into Monterey Bay with seafood vendors, restaurants, and retail shops along its length. The structure features working fishing boats, open-air stalls, and public walkways that connect visitors directly to the water's edge.

The Pacific Coast Steamship Company built the wharf in 1870 to load and unload passengers and goods, not as a fishing operation. Monterey took ownership in 1913 and expanded it through 1920. In 1923 a large sardine shipment on the S.S. San Antonio leaned on the wharf in bad weather and 132 feet collapsed; the rebuilt wharf was extended by 750 feet. After the sardine population collapsed after World War II, the wharf turned to tourism.

The wharf's name distinguishes it from Municipal Wharf II, built in 1926. At its entrance stands Custom House Plaza, where California's first government building sits and where the United States took Monterey from Mexico in 1846. The plaza also holds the Monterey Maritime Museum and the last whalebone sidewalk in the United States.

The wharf is accessible almost exclusively to pedestrians, entered from the end of Alvarado Mall just west of Municipal Wharf #2. It lies on the Coastal Recreation Trail, giving pedestrian access to Cannery Row and Pacific Grove. From Memorial Day to Labor Day the city runs a free trolley to Cannery Row and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Sea lions often sleep on the pilings, buoys and moored boats in the bay, while sea otters and other marine life can be watched from the wharf itself. Four whale-watching tours and fishing trips also leave from the pier.