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Surf Webcams — See the Break Live Before You Go
Camera walls for the surf towns with real public clusters — Waikiki, Bondi, Huntington, Kamakura, Haeundae and more. Free, no signup.
This is the surf family of the WorldEye directory: 13 surf towns, 607 live public cameras, each wall built on one stated rule — every catalogue camera within 12 km of the break, nearest first. Haeundae in Busan is the fullest wall at 184; Waikiki, Bondi, Huntington Beach, Kamakura and Santa Cruz are here; so are the quieter coasts — Ichinomiya, where surfing made its Olympic debut, and the Chiba shore an hour from Tokyo.
Read the walls for what they are. A surf town on camera is mostly its town: the beach-named feeds where a network has them, and otherwise the municipal, street and road cameras of the place itself. That is still the check surfers actually make at dawn — the sky over the break, the wind you can see, the crowd building, the weather arriving — but it is a visual check, not a surf report. WorldEye publishes no forecasts and no swell data, and no wall here will be described as one.
And the gaps, stated the way this directory states them: Nazaré, Biarritz, Byron Bay, Malibu, Hossegor, Newquay and Jeffrey's Bay measure zero catalogue cameras within 12 km, so they have no walls. Fame didn't earn anyone a page; cameras did. The beach towns that qualified instead — Laguna Beach, Miami Beach, Galveston and six more — have their own walls in the beach family, linked below.
The surf towns
Haeundae, Busan
184 camerasBusan, South Korea
Busan's great city beach — a wide, south-facing arc under the high-rises at the end of the subway line.
Waikiki & Honolulu
82 camerasHonolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Canoes and Queens, the gentle reef breaks off Waikiki Beach where modern surfing began.
Bondi Beach, Sydney
68 camerasSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Australia's most famous beach break — a south-facing arc between two headlands, home of the Bondi Rescue lifeguards.
Encinitas & Cardiff
45 camerasSan Diego County, California, United States
Swami's, the reef point at the foot of the Self-Realization bluff, and the Cardiff reefs just south.
Kamakura & Shonan
38 camerasKanagawa, Japan
Shichirigahama and the Shonan coast — the surf heartland an hour from Tokyo, under the old capital's hills.
Manly, Sydney
36 camerasSydney, New South Wales, Australia
The ferry-side surf beach where board surfing was first demonstrated in Australia, in 1915.
New Smyrna Beach
30 camerasVolusia County, Florida, United States
One of Florida's most consistent surf towns, built around the Ponce Inlet jetty breaks at its north end.
Huntington Beach
26 camerasOrange County, California, United States
Surf City USA — the pier, the US Open of Surfing, and miles of beach break either side of it.
La Jolla
26 camerasSan Diego, California, United States
Windansea's hut and reef, the Cove, and a coastline of cliffs and pocket beaches under Mt. Soledad.
San Clemente
24 camerasOrange County, California, United States
The Spanish Village by the Sea — pier beach breaks in town, and Trestles just south at San Onofre.
Ichinomiya & the Chiba Coast
17 camerasChiba, Japan
Tsurigasaki Beach — the surfing venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Surfers Paradise & the Gold Coast
16 camerasGold Coast, Queensland, Australia
The Superbank at Snapper Rocks, down the coast — and the tower-lined beach strip that took its name from surfing itself.
Santa Cruz
15 camerasCalifornia, United States
Steamer Lane, the world-class point off West Cliff — one of the places American surfing began.
Haeundae, Busan — live wall
184 cameras within 12 km of the break. A feed in the wall is named for the beach itself — Haeundae Beach, Busan — alongside coastal-road cameras on the Haeundae and Gwangalli side (18 of the wall's cameras name a beach, coast or shore in their title). The full Haeundae page →
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Haeundae, Busan.
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.
Waikiki & Honolulu — live wall
82 cameras within 12 km of the break. The nearest feeds are the Kalakaua Avenue intersections — Kalia, Kuhio, Lewers — the beachfront avenue itself, a few hundred metres from the sand. The full Waikiki page →
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Waikiki & Honolulu.
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.
Bondi Beach, Sydney — live wall
68 cameras within 12 km of the break. The nearest feeds sit on the ridge above the beach — Old South Head Road and Syd Einfeld Drive at Bondi Junction — a few minutes' walk from the sand, looking over the suburb rather than at the break. The full Bondi page →
Loading live cameras…Fetching the live index for Bondi Beach, Sydney.
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.
Beach towns in the same family
The same measurement found nine beach towns whose clusters are resort shores rather than named breaks. Their walls live in the beach family, on the same stated rule.
Laguna Beach
79 camerasOrange County, California, United States
A string of coves under the headlands, reached by the Pacific Coast Highway that runs through downtown.
Miami Beach
73 camerasMiami-Dade County, Florida, United States
The barrier island of South Beach and Ocean Drive, reached by causeways across Biscayne Bay.
Newport Beach
42 camerasOrange County, California, United States
The harbour, the peninsula and the Wedge — and the Newport Coast headlands above Crystal Cove.
Daytona Beach
33 camerasVolusia County, Florida, United States
Twenty-three miles of wide, hard-packed beach — the shore that made Daytona famous for speed.
Virginia Beach
28 camerasVirginia, United States
The long resort strand and boardwalk at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
Galveston
24 camerasTexas, United States
The historic island city on the Gulf — the Strand, the Seawall, and the ferry across to Bolivar.
Myrtle Beach
22 camerasHorry County, South Carolina, United States
The Grand Strand — sixty miles of Carolina beach towns with Myrtle Beach at its centre.
Palma & Mallorca's South Coast
22 camerasMallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
The great bay of Palma — cathedral over the harbour, and the Platja de Palma running east from the city.
Santa Monica
18 camerasLos Angeles County, California, United States
The pier at the end of Route 66 — where Interstate 10 meets the Pacific.
How to use a surf wall
- 1Pick your break from the towns above and start with the closest cameras in its wall — nearest feeds read the coast's weather best.
- 2Read the picture, not a prediction: sky and cloud over the break, wind texture where a feed faces open ground or water, the crowd on the sand-side streets.
- 3Check the timestamp on any feed before reading it — a paused camera and a glassy morning can look alike.
- 4For swell height, period and the forecast, use a dedicated surf report. Then come back to the wall for the half no report can give you: the place itself, live.
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