Texas Gulf Coast
Galveston Beach Cam
Round-the-clock news-station camera over the beach and seawall in Galveston.
Galveston Beach · Galveston Seawall
Right now at Galveston
- Air temp
- 82°F
- Wind
- S 12 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- High 3:56 AM tomorrow
Today runs 81–91°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 8:55 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
About Galveston Beach
Galveston is Houston's beach, an hour and change from the city, and this is the general-purpose look at it — a news camera pointed at the sand and the seawall that runs all day and all night. Because it is always on, it earns its keep most on the days you cannot picture from a forecast alone: a front dropping through, fog burning off the Gulf, an afternoon of squalls, or the first calm morning after a week of wind. The island's beach is nourished sand along a hardened shoreline, and how it looks depends less on swell than on which way the wind has been blowing for the past day.
What this camera is good for
- A quick read on sky and visibility right now
- How hard the wind is working the beach
- Whether fog is sitting on the shoreline
- Watching a front actually arrive
Full conditions for Galveston
Common questions
- Is the Galveston Beach camera live?
- Yes, it is a live stream running 24 hours a day. If it looks dark, it is night at the camera.
- 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 Galveston today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Galveston are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Galveston, Galveston Channel. 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.