14 live cameras across the U.S. and British Virgin Islands — St. John, St. Thomas, Water Island, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and the BVI out islands. Muted by default; tap unmute for sound. Looking for one island? Every island has its own page below.
Every island has its own page, with a map of just that island's cameras, what each one looks at, how to get there, and the local facts worth knowing. Two islands have no public camera at all — those pages say so and show the nearest live views instead.
Looking west over Large Pond and Turner Bay. Watch the car barges cross to and from St. Thomas — Big Red's Todd G and Virginia's Pride, or Love City's Grand Vic and Captain Vic. Camera by St. John Brewers.
Live view over the Cruz Bay waterfront on St. John — watch the passenger ferries to and from Red Hook and Charlotte Amalie come and go throughout the day.
Live from The Beach Bar on the waterfront in Cruz Bay — a look at the beach, the harbor, and today's conditions on St. John.
Live from the Windmill Bar in Susannaberg, St. John — a hilltop sunset view looking out over the water toward St. Thomas.
Live over Cinnamon Bay on St. John's north shore, from La Jolla Caribe, a private rental villa high on the hill above the bay — the longest beach in Virgin Islands National Park, about half a mile of sand between Maho Bay and Trunk Bay. A private camera, so it can be off at times.
Live from Lime Out, the floating taco bar anchored off St. John's east end near Coral Bay — a paddleboard's-eye view of the water.
Live from Lime Out's floating taco bar in Lindbergh Bay, St. Thomas — just off the beach near the airport.
Live from Sapphire Beach on the east end of St. Thomas, near Red Hook — a white-sand beach with views across the water to St. John.
Live from Dinghy's Beach Bar and Grill looking down Honeymoon Beach on Water Island — the fourth U.S. Virgin Island, a ten-minute ferry from Crown Bay Marina on St. Thomas. The frame refreshes every two minutes; the continuous stream plays at SkylineWebcams.
Live from the world-famous Soggy Dollar Bar on the west end of White Bay, Jost Van Dyke — home of the original Painkiller. A passport is required to visit in person.
Live from Pink House Villas on the east end of White Bay, Jost Van Dyke — a beachfront view down the bay from the opposite end from Soggy Dollar Bar, near Ivan's Stress-Free Bar.
Live from Scrub Island Resort — a private-island resort just off the north-east tip of Tortola, with views over the marina and the neighboring cays of the British Virgin Islands.
Live from Saba Rock, the tiny island bar and resort in North Sound, Virgin Gorda — a look at the boats, the mooring field, and today's conditions on the BVI's eastern end.
A live-updating view from Quart-A-Nancy Point on Cooper Island, BVI — a small island south of Tortola with a beach club and mooring field. The image refreshes automatically every 30 seconds.
All 14 public live cameras in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, west to east — 12 continuous video streams and 2 stills that refresh on a timer. Tap a camera to jump to its live feed above.
The cameras fall into five groups, and which one you want depends on what you are trying to find out. Two watch boats: the Cruz Bay passenger-ferry dock and the St. Thomas–St. John car-barge crossing, both of which answer a practical question — how long is the line right now. Four watch beaches and water: Cinnamon Bay on St. John's open north shore, Sapphire Beach on the east end of St. Thomas, and Honeymoon Beach on Water Island, plus the two cameras at either end of White Bay on Jost Van Dyke.
Three watch mooring fields, which makes them the best live read on how busy the British Virgin Islands are on any given day: Saba Rock in North Sound, Cooper Island's Manchioneel Bay, and the Scrub Island marina off Tortola. Two sit at the waterline on the Lime Out floating bars, off St. John's east end and in Lindbergh Bay on St. Thomas, where they read chop better than any hilltop view. And one is purely for the view: the Windmill Bar sunset camera on the hill above Susannaberg, St. John.
The whole territory runs on Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) and does not observe daylight saving, so the clock matches U.S. Eastern in summer and sits an hour ahead of it in winter. Sunrise falls between about 5:35am and 6:45am depending on the month, and sunset between about 5:45pm and 7:05pm.
Six islands carry a public camera: St. John has six, the most of any island; the British Virgin Islands have five between Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda, Scrub Island and Cooper Island; St. Thomas has two; and Water Island has one.
Three do not. St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, has no camera publishing a feed we can embed — not at Christiansted, not at Frederiksted, not at Cane Bay. Tortola, the largest and busiest British Virgin Island, has none either; the closest views are Scrub Island off its north-east tip and Cooper Island across the Sir Francis Drake Channel. Anegada has none, and the nearest is Saba Rock, about 15 miles south. Peter Island, Norman Island and Salt Island have none.
Those three still have pages here, because the question is worth answering. They say plainly that there is no camera, show the nearest live views under a heading that names them as somewhere else, and point at the live weather, cruise and beach data that does exist. A page that promises a camera it does not have is worse than no page at all.
Most of these cameras are continuous video. Two are not: Water Island's Honeymoon Beach camera advances a frame about every two minutes, and Cooper Island's advances every 30 seconds. Both are labelled with their cadence rather than sitting under a bare "LIVE" badge claiming more than they deliver.
The reason is on the operators' side. SkylineWebcams, which runs the Water Island camera, blocks third-party framing of its player and protects its video behind a per-session token, so a live embed here would render an empty box. Instead we pull the operator's own live frame and link out to the continuous stream. Cooper Island publishes a JPEG its server refreshes; we cache-bust it on a timer so you always see the newest one.
The same reasoning is why a few cameras you may have seen elsewhere are absent. Where a feed is same-origin locked, token-gated, or only on a social platform with no stable embed, it is left off rather than shipped as a dead player.
A camera answers one question well — what does it look like there right now — and several others badly. There is no public camera on the Charlotte Amalie or Frederiksted cruise piers, none at Magens Bay, and none pointed at the sargassum that drifts onto the east-facing beaches. All three are answerable without one, and all three update daily.
Fourteen public cameras across the U.S. and British Virgin Islands: six on St. John, five in the BVI (two on Jost Van Dyke, one at Saba Rock on Virgin Gorda, one at Scrub Island off Tortola and one on Cooper Island), two on St. Thomas and one on Water Island. Twelve are continuous video; two are stills that refresh on a timer.
St. John, with six — the Cruz Bay passenger-ferry dock, the St. Thomas car-barge crossing, The Beach Bar on the Cruz Bay waterfront, the Windmill Bar sunset cam, Cinnamon Bay on the north shore, and the Lime Out floating bar off the east end.
St. Croix, Tortola and Anegada have no public camera publishing a feed that can be embedded, and neither do Peter Island, Norman Island or Salt Island. Each of those three main islands has a page here that says so and shows the nearest live views instead.
Yes. The St. John Car Barge Cam sits in Contant, just outside Cruz Bay, and looks west over Large Pond and Turner Bay at the crossing. A crossing takes about 30 minutes, so a barge is usually somewhere in frame during daylight. A second camera at the Cruz Bay dock covers the passenger ferries from Red Hook and Charlotte Amalie.
The Windmill Bar cam in Susannaberg, St. John — a hilltop camera pointed west over the water toward St. Thomas. Sunset across the territory falls between about 5:45pm and 7:05pm Atlantic Standard Time depending on the month.
Five: Cinnamon Bay on St. John's north shore, Sapphire Beach on the east end of St. Thomas, Honeymoon Beach on Water Island, and White Bay on Jost Van Dyke, which has a camera at each end. Magens Bay, Trunk Bay and The Baths — three of the most-searched beaches in the territory — have none.
Because their operators do not publish an embeddable video stream. The Water Island camera advances a frame about every two minutes and the Cooper Island camera every 30 seconds; both are labelled with that cadence, and the Water Island card links out to the operator's continuous stream. Showing the operator's own live frame is honest; showing an empty player would not be.
The feeds keep running, but most are daylight cameras without infrared, so after dark you will mostly see dock, harbour and bar lights rather than a usable view. The useful window runs roughly from sunrise to an hour after sunset — about 5:35am to 8:00pm at the outside, Atlantic Standard Time.
Both the U.S. and British Virgin Islands run on Atlantic Standard Time, UTC−4, all year. Neither observes daylight saving, so the territory matches U.S. Eastern time in summer and runs one hour ahead of it in winter.
Yes. Every camera here is a publicly available feed published by its operator — a bar, a resort, a villa or a camera network — and is free to watch. VIslandGuide links to those feeds and does not operate any of the cameras.
Not directly. There is no public live camera on the Charlotte Amalie, Crown Bay, Frederiksted or Road Town cruise piers. The Cruz Bay cameras on St. John show the knock-on effect — a packed waterfront usually means a ship is in Charlotte Amalie — and the daily cruise-ship schedule lists which ships are alongside today with passenger counts and sailing times.
Yes. The Soggy Dollar Bar, Pink House Villas, Scrub Island, Cooper Island and Saba Rock are all in the British Virgin Islands, a British Overseas Territory that is not part of the United States, so U.S. citizens need a passport even arriving by ferry from St. Thomas or St. John. The USVI cameras — St. John, St. Thomas and Water Island — need none.
Streams are provided by third parties and may occasionally be offline. VIslandGuide links to publicly available live feeds and does not operate the cameras. Where an operator publishes a still image rather than a continuous stream, the camera above says so and states its refresh interval.
