Tampa Bay & Pinellas
Clearwater Beach Cam
Live stream from Pier 60 on Clearwater Beach, plus today's real conditions.
Pier 60 · Clearwater Beach
Right now at Clearwater Beach
- Air temp
- 71°F
- Wind
- N 11 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- Low 4:50 AM tomorrow
Today runs 70–80°F with a 2% chance of rain. Sunset is at 5:42 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
Which fish look best today at Clearwater Beach
The same day scores differently for each fish: water temperature, wind, tide and seas count differently for a snook than for a sheepshead. Today’s read for Clearwater, species by species.
Best bet: Snook.
- Snook89Prime
78°F water is right in the snook range.
Tide: 3 ft range · 2 in daylight
- Spotted seatrout88Prime
78°F water is right in the trout range.
Tide: 3 ft range · 2 in daylight
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today → - Redfish87Prime
78°F water is right in the redfish range.
Tide: 3 ft range · 2 in daylight
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Sheepshead76Good
78°F water is a little warm for sheepshead; the bite starts to ease. Still warming, which pushes it further past the range.
Wind: 11 mph N, gusts 19
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today → - Tarpon71Good
78°F water is right in the tarpon range.
Tide: 3 ft range · 2 in daylight
Better Wed: 93
- Spanish mackerel71Good
78°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Wind: 11 mph N, gusts 19
Better Wed: 94
Where to look
Open runs along beaches and passes, on clean, moving water.
Best Spanish mackerel spots today →
Scores conditions for each fish, not where they are or when a run starts. Water temperature is today’s reading applied to the whole week, so a cold front further out won’t show here until the water follows. Temperature ranges are rules of thumb for Florida inshore water; the snook range is from published research.
About Clearwater Beach
Clearwater Beach is the busiest beach on Florida's Gulf coast and Pier 60 is its center of gravity — a fishing pier by day and a nightly sunset festival with buskers and craft stalls in the hours before dark. The beach is wide, white and faces west, with Clearwater Pass funnelling bait and snook between the sand and Clearwater Harbor just to the south. Summer storms build off the Gulf here quickly enough that the sunset celebration can go from packed to cleared in twenty minutes.
What this camera is good for
- How busy the beach and Pier 60 are
- Surf and water clarity
- Sunset festival conditions
- Storms approaching from the Gulf
Full conditions for Clearwater Beach
Common questions
- Is the Clearwater Beach camera live?
- Yes. It is the operator's own YouTube live stream, and this page always plays whichever stream is running right now. If they are between streams, you will see a link to their channel instead.
- Does it cost anything to watch?
- No. Salty Forecast is completely free — no ads, no account, no paid tier, and nothing on this page is behind a sign-up.
- What are the tides at Clearwater Beach today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Clearwater Beach are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Clearwater Beach. Tide state changes what the beach looks like on camera — at low water the beach is at its widest.
- Why does the camera look hazy or dark?
- Live cameras sit outdoors: rain on the lens, salt spray, fog and low light all affect the picture. Night views are lit only by whatever is nearby. If the feed is down entirely, that is the operator's camera rather than this page — the conditions above still update.