Texas Gulf Coast
Padre Island National Seashore Cam
Live view from the Malaquite Visitor Center at Padre Island National Seashore.
Malaquite Visitor Center · Padre Island National Seashore
Right now at Padre Island Seashore
- Air temp
- 84°F
- Wind
- SSE 15 mph
- Sky
- overcast
- Next tide
- High 1:14 AM tomorrow
Today runs 80–90°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 9:03 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
About Padre Island National Seashore
Padre Island National Seashore protects the longest undeveloped stretch of barrier island left in the world, and Malaquite is where most visitors meet it — the visitor center, the dunes, and a beach that runs out of sight in both directions. Past the end of the pavement the beach becomes the road, and the farther south you go the more it demands soft-sand driving and self-sufficiency. This is federal parkland with an active sea turtle nesting program through the warm months, and in some seasons the tide line piles deep with beach-cast sargassum, which is part of how the island works rather than a sign anything is wrong.
What this camera is good for
- Sargassum on the beach before a trip down
- Surf and shorebreak on an unhardened, wide-open shoreline
- Wind on an exposed beach with no development to break it
- How crowded, or empty, the Malaquite stretch looks
This feed is a still image that refreshes roughly once a minute rather than live video, so expect a fresh photo rather than motion.
Full conditions for Padre Island Seashore
Common questions
- Is the Padre Island National Seashore camera live?
- Yes. This feed is a still image from the camera that refreshes every 60 seconds, so it is never more than a few seconds behind.
- 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 Padre Island Seashore today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Padre Island Seashore are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Corpus Christi, Bob Hall Pier. 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.