Emerald Coast
Miramar Beach Cam
Live Gulf view from the Whale's Tail Beach Bar at Miramar Beach.
Whale's Tail Beach Bar · Seascape · Miramar Beach
Right now at Miramar Beach
- Air temp
- 59°F
- Wind
- N 13 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- Low 7:19 AM tomorrow
Today runs 57–72°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 4:53 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 Miramar 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 Miramar Bch, species by species.
Best bet: Spotted seatrout.
- Spotted seatrout75Good
79°F water is a little warm for trout; the bite starts to ease.
Tide: 0.7 ft range · 1 in daylight
Better Tue: 82
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today → - Redfish72Good
79°F water is right in the redfish range.
Tide: 0.7 ft range · 1 in daylight
Better Tue: 80
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Sheepshead65Good
79°F water is warm for sheepshead. Fish early, late and where current moves.
Tide: 0.7 ft range · 1 in daylight
Better Tue: 71
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today → - Tarpon54Fair
79°F water is right in the tarpon range.
Tide: 0.7 ft range · 1 in daylight
Better Tue: 80
- Spanish mackerel54Fair
79°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Seas: 3.3 ft @ 4 s, short and steep
Better Tue: 90
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.
About Miramar Beach
Miramar Beach fronts open Gulf along South Walton with no pass or inlet for miles, which makes it a pure beach — no boat wake, no current cutting through, just the bar and the trough. The Whale's Tail sits right on the sand at Seascape and has been a fixture here for decades. This stretch is also the western end of the coastal dune lake country, a landform found in only a handful of places on earth, where a rare tannic lake occasionally breaks through the dune and drains straight into the Gulf.
What this camera is good for
- Surf on an open, structureless Gulf beach
- Water clarity and how far out the sandbar is showing
- Beach crowd levels along the South Walton strip
- Sunset
Full conditions for Miramar Beach
Common questions
- Is the Miramar 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 Miramar Beach today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Miramar Beach are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at East Pass (Destin). 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.