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Santa Monica Beach Webcams
18 live cameras within 12 km of Santa Monica — see the beach live before you go. Free, no signup.
Santa Monica is where America's most famous road dissolves into the ocean: I-10 runs west across Los Angeles and ends at the McClure Tunnel, a few hundred metres from the pier and the wide beach under the Palisades bluff. The wall centres on that meeting point.
The catalogue's feeds are Caltrans cameras on I-10's last mile — the McClure Tunnel approaches, east and west — plus one public webcam in the mix. Freeway-end cameras, honestly labelled: they frame the drive that ends at this beach for half of Los Angeles, and the marine layer that so often sits on it.
The wall — every camera, nearest first
The rule for this page is the rule for the whole family: every catalogue camera within 12 km of Santa Monica’s centre (34.0095, -118.4912), ordered nearest first. Known for: The pier at the end of Route 66 — where Interstate 10 meets the Pacific.
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Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
What this wall actually shows
The nearest feeds are I-10 at the McClure Tunnel — the freeway's coastal end, at the top of the bluff above the beach.
One feed in the wall is a public webcam rather than a road camera; the rest are the I-10 corridor's final junctions.
Closest cameras to the centre
- I-10 : (102) Mcclure East348 m away
- I-10 : (101) Mcclure West512 m away
- I-10 : (105) E/O Cloverfield Blvd2.7 km away
- I-10: (95) Centinela Ave On-Ramp3.9 km away
- I-10: (107) RTE 4055.8 km away
- I-405 : (364) South of Palms Ave6.4 km away
Santa Monica in the directory
This wall is one place in a directory of them. Open Santa Monica on the 3D globe to watch its cameras with the weather layer on, browse the United States camera directory or the Los Angeles city webcams and the California traffic cameras.
How to check Santa Monica before you go
- 1Start with the closest cameras in the wall above — the feeds nearest the centre are the ones that read the beach's weather best.
- 2Read the sky and the surface, not a forecast: cloud cover, light, wind texture where a feed faces open ground or water, and how busy the town looks.
- 3Check the timestamp on any feed before trusting it — a paused camera and a calm morning can look alike.
- 4For swell height, period and a real surf forecast, use a dedicated surf report — WorldEye doesn't publish one. The camera is the visual half of the check; the report is the numbers half.
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