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Manly, Sydney Surf Webcams
36 live cameras within 12 km of Manly — see the break live before you go. Free, no signup.
Manly is Sydney's other great beach town — the ferry ride from Circular Quay, the pine-lined Corso, and an east-facing beach that takes the same swells as the city's northern beaches. In 1915 Duke Kahanamoku demonstrated Hawaiian board surfing at Freshwater, just north of here, and Australian surfing started on this stretch of coast.
As with Bondi, the catalogue's coverage is the Live Traffic road network: Pittwater Road and the northern beaches approaches, the Spit and Seaforth on the harbour side. The wall is the northern beaches' road grid live — weather, light and traffic over the peninsula the beach sits on.
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 Manly’s centre (-33.7969, 151.2869), ordered nearest first. Known for: The ferry-side surf beach where board surfing was first demonstrated in Australia, in 1915.
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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 peninsula's road junctions — Balgowlah, Seaforth, Dee Why — on the roads that serve the beach, not on the sand.
The coast-named feeds in range are harbour crossings (the Spit side and the Harbour Bridge); no dedicated Manly Beach feed exists in the catalogue.
Closest cameras to the centre
- Burnt Bridge Creek (Balgowlah)2.2 km away
- Manly Road (Seaforth)3.8 km away
- Pittwater Road (Dee Why)4.3 km away
- Warringah Road (Beacon Hill)5.1 km away
- Military Road (Neutral Bay)7.1 km away
- Warringah Road Eastbound (Frenchs Forest)7.5 km away
Manly in the directory
This wall is one place in a directory of them. Open Manly on the 3D globe to watch its cameras with the weather layer on, browse the Australia camera directory.
How to check Manly 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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