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La Jolla Surf Webcams
26 live cameras within 12 km of La Jolla — see the break live before you go. Free, no signup.
La Jolla packs a coastline's worth of surfing into a few miles: Windansea, with its palm hut and heavy reef; the reefs of Bird Rock and Hospitals to the south; the Cove and the sea caves to the north. The village sits above it all on the shoulder of Mt. Soledad.
The wall is the freeway grid above the coast — Caltrans cameras on SR-52 and I-5 at Genesee and Regents, the canyon roads that drop to the shore. They are weather-and-traffic cameras for the mesa; the coves themselves sit below their sightlines, and this page says so rather than dressing a freeway feed as a surf check.
The wall — every camera, nearest first
The rule for this page is the rule for the whole family: every catalogue camera within 12 km of La Jolla’s centre (32.8328, -117.2713), ordered nearest first. Known for: Windansea's hut and reef, the Cove, and a coastline of cliffs and pocket beaches under Mt. Soledad.
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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.
What this wall actually shows
The nearest feeds are the SR-52 canyon crossings at Regents Road and Genesee Avenue — the top of the drop into La Jolla.
No coast-named feed exists in this wall; its honest use is the sky over the coast and the state of the drive.
Closest cameras to the centre
- (C109) SR-52 : Regents Road UC5.0 km away
- (C 110) SR-52 : Genesee Avenue6.3 km away
- (C048) I-5 : Genesee7.3 km away
- (C375) NB 805:at Governot _T8.6 km away
- (C 049) I-5 : SR-56 Bypass8.7 km away
- (C235) I-5 : Just South Of Sorrento Valley Road 18.7 km away
La Jolla in the directory
This wall is one place in a directory of them. Open La Jolla on the 3D globe to watch its cameras with the weather layer on, browse the United States camera directory or the San Diego city webcams and the California traffic cameras.
How to check La Jolla before you go
- 1Start with the closest cameras in the wall above — the feeds nearest the centre are the ones that read the break's weather best.
- 2Read the sky and the surface, not a forecast: cloud cover, light, wind texture where a feed faces open ground or water, and how busy the town looks.
- 3Check the timestamp on any feed before trusting it — a paused camera and a calm morning can look alike.
- 4For swell height, period and a real surf forecast, use a dedicated surf report — WorldEye doesn't publish one. The camera is the visual half of the check; the report is the numbers half.
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