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Port of Vancouver — Cruise Ships in Port, Live

The board below lists the cruise ships at Vancouver right now, read live off AIS — plus 98 port & waterfront cameras within 6 km. Presence, not schedules. Free, no signup.

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cameras in Vancouver's wall
10 km
board radius — the presence rule
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Canada Place — the white-sailed terminal in the middle of downtown Vancouver — is the Alaska season's southern gate, and its wall is the downtown network itself: the city’s own cameras within 6 km of the harbour centre, Burrard Street a few blocks from the berth. Few cruise ports anywhere are this deep inside a city’s camera grid.

The board above reads Burrard Inlet’s cruise presence off AIS: the Alaska-bound ships at Canada Place and in the anchorage, named as they broadcast. Like Seattle, Vancouver is a seasonal port — the board fills from spring to autumn and empties honestly for winter.

The board — who is in port right now

Every AIS passenger vessel inside Port of Vancouver’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 Vancouver

Live AIS presence · refreshes every 30 s

Listening for ships at Port of Vancouver…

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 Vancouver

The departure under the Lions Gate Bridge is the frame: a ship easing out from Canada Place, gathering way down the inlet and sliding under the bridge with the North Shore mountains behind it. The downtown cameras hold the first part; for the bridge itself, follow the ship on the globe.

All 98 Vancouver port cameras, live

Every catalogue camera within 6 km of the Port of Vancouver centre, nearest first — the wall this page’s count comes from. Downtown Vancouver network — Burrard & Hastings, blocks from Canada Place · Burrard Inlet & the harbour shores.

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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 Vancouver board

  1. 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.
  2. 2Then watch the wall: find the berth-side and inlet cameras in the explorer and keep them open through the sailaway window.
  3. 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.
  4. 4Check the weather panel before reading a hazy frame as a quiet port — harbour weather hides fleets whole.
  5. 5For departure times, use your cruise line or the port authority — this board measures presence and prints no times it cannot source.

Vancouver cruise port — FAQ

Is this a departure board for Vancouver?+
No — it is a live presence board, and the difference matters. It lists the cruise ships physically inside Port of Vancouver's area right now, from their own AIS broadcasts. This site holds no cruise schedule data, so it prints no departure times rather than invent them. For sailing times, your cruise line or the port authority is the source; for which hulls are actually here, this board is the instrument.
Do the same ships appear at Seattle and Vancouver?+
Often, yes — the Alaska trade runs both ports, sometimes in the same week. Each board is read live from AIS, so a ship appears at the port it is actually in; watch the two boards across a week and you can follow a hull’s whole circuit of the Inside Passage trade.
How many cameras are in the Vancouver wall, and how is the count worked out?+
This page's wall holds 98 cameras: every camera in the WorldEye catalogue within 6 km of the port centre the site's scope registry uses — the same rule the explorer below serves, so the number you read is the number you get.
Is it free to watch?+
Yes — every camera on this page opens free on WorldEye, with no account and no signup, and the live board is free too. A free account raises your daily camera-open limit; the globe's full maritime firehose is a VIP layer, but the port boards are public, full stop.

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