Barcelona coast live webcams
Barcelona's seafront, Badalona and the Maresme to the north, and Castelldefels, Sitges and Vilanova to the south: the beaches around the city, live and through the day.
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Photos: authors and licences of the 11 images
- Badalona: Isidro Jabato, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Barcelona: DimiTalen, public domain
- Castelldefels: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Port Ginesta: Llavaneras, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sant Pol de Mar: Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sitges: Dessources, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Vilanova i la Geltrú: Angelina Llop, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Arenys de Mar: Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Montserrat: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Camp Nou: Oh-Barcelona.com from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY 2.0
- Pineda de Mar: Isidro Jabato, CC BY-SA 4.0
A city with a beach, and the coast on either side
For a long time Barcelona's shore was railway lines and factories, and only when the city rebuilt its waterfront for the 1992 Olympics did it become the string of beaches visitors know today, from Barceloneta to the Fòrum. North of the city, Badalona has a long town beach and the Pont del Petroli, an old oil-tanker pier turned into a walkway over the sea. Further up the Maresme coast, Arenys de Mar keeps the main fishing harbour of the Maresme, and Sant Pol de Mar still pulls its fishing boats up onto the sand. To the south-west, past the airport, Castelldefels has miles of beach popular with sailors and kitesurfers, ending at the big marina of Port Ginesta; then the Garraf hills meet the sea, and beyond them come Sitges, with its church on the rocks above the beach, and Vilanova i la Geltrú. Inland, the mountain monastery of Montserrat, Barcelona's favourite day trip, has its own cameras on the rack railway and the cable car that climb to it.
Who runs the cameras
3Cat, Catalonia's public broadcaster, has weather cameras high above Barcelona's Port Olímpic and on the seafront at Vilanova, which send still pictures with the latest temperature. A seafront hotel in Sitges streams its beach live, the sailing club of Arenys de Mar films the beach beside its harbour, and a sailing and kitesurfing website does the same on Castelldefels beach on YouTube. Port Ginesta films its own breakwater with two live cameras. A swimming club in Badalona, a local weather website in Castelldefels and a camera above the boats of Sant Pol are shared through Windy, with the latest image and a time-lapse of the day.
When to watch this coast
Clocks here are an hour ahead of London and Dublin all year. The coast faces south-east, so the morning sun shines on the water and the sea is usually calmest early in the day; on summer afternoons a sea breeze picks up. The water is warmest in August and coolest in February and March, and the biggest waves arrive with easterly storms in autumn and winter.