Catalan Pyrenees webcams

Two ways to the mountains

This page brings together two kinds of camera. Eight are at the ski resorts: Baqueira-Beret in the Val d'Aran, one of the biggest in Spain; La Molina and Masella on either side of the same mountain above the Cerdanya, linked by their lifts; and Port Ainé, Espot, Port del Comte, Boí Taüll and Vallter 2000, smaller resorts at the heads of their valleys. The others look at the towns and valleys that people come to all year: Vielha, capital of the Val d'Aran, the only Catalan valley on the Atlantic side of the range; the wide, sunny plain of the Cerdanya around Puigcerdà; the medieval bridge of Camprodon; the sanctuary and lake of Núria, reached by rack railway or on foot; the monastery of Ripoll; and the Romanesque churches of the Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site.

What the cameras show

The resort cameras are the resorts' own, many of them 360-degree panoramas that you can turn with your finger, alongside the weather cameras of Catalonia's public broadcaster. In the villages, town councils, local weather enthusiasts and hotels keep cameras on squares, bridges and church towers, several of them through Windy, as a time-lapse of the day. Every ski resort on the site, here and elsewhere in Spain, is also listed among the ski resort webcams.

When to watch

The Catalan Pyrenees are one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. The ski season usually runs from early December to Easter, and the first morning pictures show the night's snow and the grooming. In summer the same cameras follow walkers, mountain lakes and afternoon storms, which build over the peaks after midday. Barcelona and Girona airports are the usual way in from Britain and Ireland, two to three hours' drive from most of the valleys.