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PortMiami — Cruise Ships in Port, Live
The board below lists the cruise ships at Miami right now, read live off AIS — plus 82 port & waterfront cameras within 10 km. Presence, not schedules. Free, no signup.
PortMiami calls itself the cruise capital of the world, and on a Saturday the turning basin earns it: the biggest cruise ships afloat berth along one channel, in sight of the downtown skyline. This page pairs the port's camera wall — every catalogue camera within 10 km of the port centre, the causeway approaches and the Biscayne Bay waterfront — with the live board above: the cruise ships physically in port right now, read off their own AIS broadcasts.
The board is a presence board, not a departure board, and the distinction is printed here rather than buried: no schedule dataset backs this site, so the page never invents a sailing time. What it can tell you is better in one way — a ship on the board is really there, transmitting, within the last ten minutes.
The board — who is in port right now
Every AIS passenger vessel inside PortMiami’s board radius, named as it broadcasts, marked in port when it is stopped and underway when it is moving in the port area. Reports up to about ten minutes old are admitted; older reports are dropped, never carried forward as if live.
In port right now — PortMiami
Live AIS presence · refreshes every 30 sListening for ships at PortMiami…
This is a live presence board, not a departure board: it lists the passenger vessels transmitting inside the port area right now, from their own AIS broadcasts (up to about 10 minutes old — the feed drops anything older). No sailing times are shown, because no schedule feed backs them — for departure times, use the cruise line or the port authority.
Best time to watch Miami
Sailaway is the show: late afternoon, when the day’s ships back out of the turning basin one by one and thread Government Cut past Fisher Island. The causeway cameras catch the shoreside half of it — traffic stopping, crowds on the baywalk — and the board empties hull by hull as each ship clears the sea buoy and drops off the port’s radius.
All 82 Miami port cameras, live
Every catalogue camera within 10 km of the PortMiami centre, nearest first — the wall this page’s count comes from. MacArthur Causeway & I-395 approach cameras (FDOT) · Downtown Miami & Biscayne Bay waterfront network.
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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.
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How to use the Miami board
- 1Start with the board: it names the ships actually in port right now — if your ship is not listed, it is not transmitting here yet.
- 2Then watch the wall: find the berth-side and inlet cameras in the explorer and keep them open through the sailaway window.
- 3A ship marked 'underway in port area' is moving — casting off, arriving, or shifting berth; 'in port' means stopped at the berth or the anchorage.
- 4Check the weather panel before reading a hazy frame as a quiet port — harbour weather hides fleets whole.
- 5For departure times, use your cruise line or the port authority — this board measures presence and prints no times it cannot source.
Miami cruise port — FAQ
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