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Port of Seattle — Cruise Ships in Port, Live
The board below lists the cruise ships at Seattle right now, read live off AIS — plus 127 port & waterfront cameras within 6 km. Presence, not schedules. Free, no signup.
Seattle's cruise berths — Pier 66 on the downtown waterfront and Pier 91 below Magnolia — face Elliott Bay, the same water the ferries cross all day. The wall here is the bay's own network: every catalogue camera within 6 km of the harbour centre the port hub already uses, the waterfront, the downtown grid and the bay's working shores.
In season, the board above reads like an Alaska timetable without the times: the big ships that spend their summers running Seattle to Juneau and back, in port on their turnaround days, named on AIS as they sit at the pier. Off season the board is honestly quiet — Seattle’s cruise trade is a summer business, and the page does not pretend otherwise.
The board — who is in port right now
Every AIS passenger vessel inside Port of Seattle’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 — Port of Seattle
Live AIS presence · refreshes every 30 sListening for ships at Port of Seattle…
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 Seattle
Turnaround day is the watch: a ship that arrives at dawn, empties, reloads and sails by late afternoon, with the bay’s ferries crossing its bow the whole time. The finest frame is a departure down Elliott Bay in evening light, the ship lit, the Olympics ahead of it — the wall’s waterfront cameras hold the first mile of it.
All 127 Seattle port cameras, live
Every catalogue camera within 6 km of the Port of Seattle centre, nearest first — the wall this page’s count comes from. Elliott Bay waterfront network (SDOT) · The same harbour the Washington State Ferries cross — see the ferry tracker.
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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 Seattle 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.
Seattle cruise port — FAQ
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Why is the Seattle board empty in winter?+
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