Texas Gulf Coast
Surfside Seahorse Cam
A second live look at the Gulf from the beachfront at Surfside.
Seahorse · Surfside Beach
Right now at Surfside Beach
- Air temp
- 82°F
- Wind
- S 12 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- High 1:27 AM tomorrow
Today runs 80–90°F with a 4% chance of rain. Sunset is at 8:57 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
About Surfside Beach (Seahorse)
One camera on a straight, open beach only tells you about one piece of it, and Surfside runs for miles. This is a second vantage on the same stretch of Gulf, useful mostly as a cross-check: if the surf and water color look the same in both frames, that is the whole beach, not a local effect from the jetty rocks. The shoreline here is the ordinary Surfside setup — stilt houses set behind a low dune line, firm sand you can drive, and a Gulf that responds to whatever the wind has been doing for the last twelve hours.
What this camera is good for
- A second angle on surf and water color away from the jetty
- Beach and vehicle traffic along the sand
- How hard the wind is blowing onshore
- Sky and squall lines coming off the Gulf
Full conditions for Surfside Beach
Common questions
- Is the Surfside Beach (Seahorse) 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 Surfside Beach today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Surfside Beach are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Freeport Harbor. 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.