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Jacksonville Beach Pier Cam
Live camera on the Jacksonville Beach Pier and the Atlantic surf.
Jax Pier Cam · Jacksonville Beach Pier
Right now at Jacksonville Beach
- Air temp
- 73°F
- Wind
- NE 6 mph
- Sky
- overcast
- Next tide
- High 6:37 PM
Today runs 62–76°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 5:33 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 Jacksonville 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 Jax Beach, species by species.
Best bet: Spotted seatrout.
- Spotted seatrout86Prime
73°F water is right in the trout range.
Wind: 6 mph N, gusts 19
Better Tue: 93
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today → - Redfish85Prime
73°F water is right in the redfish range.
Better Tue: 92
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Sheepshead82Prime
73°F water is a little warm for sheepshead; the bite starts to ease. Still warming, which pushes it further past the range.
Wind: 6 mph N, gusts 19
Better Tue: 88
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today → - Spanish mackerel78Good
73°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Wind: 6 mph N, gusts 19
Better Wed: 90
Where to look
Open runs along beaches and passes, on clean, moving water.
Best Spanish mackerel spots today → - Tarpon73Good
73°F water is cool for tarpon; the bite builds as it warms toward 76°F. Warming water is lifting it toward the sweet spot.
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.
About Jacksonville Beach
Jacksonville Beach is straight, open Atlantic sand with a pier in the middle of it and very little else to bend the swell, which makes it a pure surf and pier fishery — pompano and whiting in the trough through spring and fall, Spanish mackerel and bluefish blitzing bait off the end. This camera has been running free since 2009, which makes it one of the longest-lived beach cams in the state. The nearshore reefs a couple of miles out hold kingfish and cobia in the warm months.
What this camera is good for
- Surf size and how clean it is running
- Whether the pier is fishable
- Bait schools and bird activity along the beach
- Sunrise over the Atlantic
The channel rotates its live video id on restart, so this opens the live page rather than pinning one broadcast.
Full conditions for Jacksonville Beach
Common questions
- Is the Jacksonville Beach camera live?
- Yes — it streams on the operator's own site, and the link on this page always opens whichever stream is currently running.
- 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 Jacksonville Beach today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Jacksonville Beach are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Jacksonville 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.