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San Clemente Surf Webcams
24 live cameras within 12 km of San Clemente — see the break live before you go. Free, no signup.
San Clemente is the surf town at Orange County's south end: a pier with beach breaks either side, the trails down the bluffs at T-Street and Riviera, and — a short drive south — Lower Trestles, one of the most famous performance waves on earth. Interstate 5 runs the whole length of it, on the bluff directly above the beach.
That geography is the wall: Caltrans cameras on I-5 through San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, in places a few hundred metres from the water. Freeway feeds, honestly labelled — but of all the corridor walls in this family, this is the one whose cameras sit closest to the surf.
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 San Clemente’s centre (33.4274, -117.6120), ordered nearest first. Known for: The Spanish Village by the Sea — pier beach breaks in town, and Trestles just south at San Onofre.
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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 I-5 at Presidio Drive, El Camino Real and Avenida Palizada — the freeway exits for the pier and the beach neighbourhoods.
No beach-named feed exists in the wall; the cameras' value is proximity — the same bluff, the same sky, the same wind you can see bending the palms along the freeway.
Closest cameras to the centre
- I-5 : (209) Presidio Drive On134 m away
- I-5 : (208) El Camino Real384 m away
- I-5 : (210) Avenida Palizada On581 m away
- I-5 : (211) Pico1.7 km away
- I-5 : (207) Mendecino1.9 km away
- I-5 : (212) Vista Hermosa2.3 km away
San Clemente in the directory
This wall is one place in a directory of them. Open San Clemente 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 San Clemente 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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