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Kīlauea — Live Volcano Cameras
17 live cameras within 50 km of Kīlauea's summit — Holei Pali — Cameras 1–4 (FAA WeatherCams). Free, no signup.
Kīlauea is the most-watched volcano on Earth in 2026, and this page is its island-wide view: every catalogue camera within 50 km of the summit — the rim-road, coastal and research-tower network around Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, including the Holei Pali and Pāhala camera groups on the volcano's own flanks.
One boundary is stated plainly, because the hub page states it too: the canonical crater view during a fountaining episode is the USGS observatory's own summit webcams, which are the observatory's to run. This wall is the island around the crater — the roads that close, the coast the lava approaches, the viewpoints that fill — plus the context the map adds: the earthquake layer carrying the summit seismicity that leads each episode.
Kīlauea status — as published by the observatory
The summit eruption inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater has run in lava-fountaining episodes since December 23, 2024. Episode 55 ended on October 17, 2026 (fountains to about 720 feet), and the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's daily update of October 27, 2026 forecasts the Episode 56 window at November 1–7 — a window that has already slipped a day once, because the summit's recharge paused before resuming. Treat it as an expectation, not a schedule, and confirm the day's status with the observatory.
Current status: USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory — Kīlauea page.
Best time to watch Kīlauea
Fountaining episodes are at their most legible after dark, when the glow registers on every exposed camera facing the caldera — and the hours around an episode's start are when the regional cameras earn their keep: roads, viewpoints and sky all change before any headline does. Between episodes, watch the flank cameras for weather: the summit sits in cloud often, and a clear dawn over Halemaʻumaʻu is worth setting an alarm for.
Eruption status is not read off a webcam: confirm what you are seeing with the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory before drawing conclusions from any single frame.
All 17 Kīlauea cameras, live
Every catalogue camera within 50 km of Kīlauea's summit, nearest first — the wall this page's count comes from. Search by viewpoint, road or settlement, and open any camera here or on the globe.
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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.
Featured cameras in the wall
- NEON Site - D20 (Pacific Tropical) Pu`u Maka`ala Natural Area Reserve, Hawaii - top-of-tower cameraHilo
How to watch Kīlauea on the map
- 1Start with the named cameras: the highlights at the top of this page are the wall's anchor viewpoints — open them first for the volcano itself.
- 2Check the timestamp before trusting the frame, and read the weather panel: plumes, ash and cloud are easy to confuse at a glance.
- 3Confirm what you're seeing against the responsible observatory — here, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
- 4Switch on the earthquake layer on the globe to see the seismic activity under and around the volcano — eruptions are seismic stories.
- 5During unrest, recheck across hours: episodes build, peak and stop, and the regional cameras catch the aftermath — plumes, closures, glow after dark.
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