Sunrise Around the World — Live Cameras on the Dawn Line

Somewhere on Earth, the sun is rising right now — and it never stops. As the planet turns, the dawn line sweeps westward at 15 degrees of longitude an hour, crossing a new coastline, city and mountain range every few minutes. This page rides that line: it computes the sun's real position for the moment you open it, finds the public cameras standing in the sunrise — close enough that the light is still low and golden — and puts them on one stage, closest to the moment first.

Nothing here is a fixed list or a recording. The selection is recomputed every minute from the same served camera catalogue as the WorldEye globe — 74,229 public cameras — using the same solar model the globe draws its own day-and-night shading with. A camera qualifies when today's sunrise at its coordinates falls within 45 minutes either side of now: near enough that you catch the glow before, the first direct light, or the long shadows after. The featured camera rotates through the line-up so the whole line gets its moment.

Flip the toggle and the page crosses to the other side of the day: sunset mode runs the identical geometry against the dusk line, where the sun is setting right now. Between the two, at any instant, this page can show you the exact seams of the planet's day — the places where night is becoming morning, and the places where evening is closing in.

An honest caveat, because the feeds deserve one: these are public cameras run by transport agencies, towns, resorts and weather services, not sunrise observatories. A camera inside the window may still show cloud, a valley in shadow, or the grey minutes before the light arrives — that is what dawn actually looks like from most of the world. The geometry is exact; the weather is its own business.