Six live cameras on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands — the Cruz Bay ferry dock, the St. Thomas car barge crossing, The Beach Bar on the Cruz Bay waterfront, the Windmill Bar sunset cam above Susannaberg, Cinnamon Bay on the north shore, and the Lime Out floating bar off Coral Bay. Every camera is mapped below, and each streams live all day.
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.
What to watch for: The Red Hook boat runs roughly hourly and crosses in about 20 minutes; the Charlotte Amalie boat is longer and less frequent. A crowded dock in frame usually means a cruise ship is in Charlotte Amalie and the day-trip crowd is heading over.
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.
What to watch for: A barge crossing takes about 30 minutes each way, so a boat is usually somewhere in frame during daylight. If you are shipping a car or a rental Jeep, this is the cheapest way to see how long the Enighed Pond queue is before you drive down.
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.
What to watch for: The most reliable read on how busy Cruz Bay is on any given afternoon. It faces roughly west across Cruz Bay, so it also catches the sunset and the anchored boats in the harbour.
Live from the Windmill Bar in Susannaberg, St. John — a hilltop sunset view looking out over the water toward St. Thomas.
What to watch for: The best sunset camera in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sunset in the territory runs between about 5:45pm and 7:05pm AST depending on the month, and the colour usually peaks 10–20 minutes after the sun is down.
Live from Cinnamon Bay on St. John's north shore, inside Virgin Islands National Park — the island's longest beach, a mile of sand between Maho Bay and Trunk Bay.
What to watch for: An open north-shore beach, which makes it the best single read on north-swell and on sargassum landing along that coast. Calm, glassy water here usually means the whole north shore is snorkelable.
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.
What to watch for: A waterline view, so it reads chop better than any hilltop camera on the island. Flat water in frame is a good sign for a Coral Bay or Salt Pond beach day.
The six cameras split cleanly by what they are good for. Two watch boats: the Cruz Bay passenger-ferry cam looks over the dock where the Red Hook and Charlotte Amalie boats come in, and the car-barge cam in Contant looks west over Large Pond and Turner Bay at the vehicle barges crossing to St. Thomas. Two watch weather and water: Cinnamon Bay is an open north-shore beach and the best read on north swell and on sargassum landing along that coast, while Lime Out sits at the waterline off the east end and shows chop better than any hilltop view. Two watch the day go by: The Beach Bar on the Cruz Bay waterfront is the clearest gauge of how busy town is, and the Windmill Bar above Susannaberg is a hilltop sunset camera pointed west toward St. Thomas.
St. John has no airport and no cruise pier, so almost everyone arrives by boat into Cruz Bay. That makes the two dock cameras genuinely useful rather than decorative: if the Cruz Bay waterfront is packed in frame, a cruise ship is in Charlotte Amalie and the day-trip crowd has come over.
Sunrise in the U.S. Virgin Islands runs between about 5:35am and 6:45am Atlantic Standard Time depending on the month, and sunset between about 5:45pm and 7:05pm. The territory does not observe daylight saving, so the clock is the same as U.S. Eastern in summer and one hour ahead of it in winter.
Cinnamon Bay is the only St. John beach with its own live camera, but most of the island's best-known beaches lie within a few miles of it along the North Shore Road inside Virgin Islands National Park.
There is no airport on St. John. Visitors fly into Cyril E. King Airport (STT) on St. Thomas and cross by boat. The Red Hook to Cruz Bay passenger ferry is the short crossing at about 20 minutes and runs roughly hourly; the Charlotte Amalie to Cruz Bay boat takes about 45 minutes and runs a handful of times a day. Vehicles cross on the car barges between Red Hook (Vessup Bay) and Enighed Pond, a trip of about 30 minutes run by Love City Car Ferries and Big Red Barge Co.
Six that stream publicly: the Cruz Bay passenger ferry dock, the St. Thomas car barge crossing at Contant, The Beach Bar on the Cruz Bay waterfront, the Windmill Bar sunset cam in Susannaberg, Cinnamon Bay on the north shore, and the Lime Out floating bar off the east end near Coral Bay.
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 to St. Thomas. You can see Big Red Barge Co.'s Todd G and Virginia's Pride and Love City Car Ferries' Grand Vic and Captain Vic. A crossing takes about 30 minutes.
The Windmill Bar cam in Susannaberg. It is a hilltop camera pointed west over the water toward St. Thomas. Sunset in the U.S. Virgin Islands falls between about 5:45pm and 7:05pm Atlantic Standard Time depending on the month.
Yes — the Cruz Bay Passenger Ferry cam looks over the waterfront where the Red Hook and Charlotte Amalie boats dock. It is a practical way to check how long the line is before you head down.
Atlantic Standard Time, UTC−4, all year. The U.S. Virgin Islands do not observe daylight saving time, so St. John matches U.S. Eastern time in summer and runs one hour ahead of it in winter.
The cameras keep streaming, but most are daylight cameras without infrared, so after dark you will mostly see harbour and dock lights rather than a usable view. The useful window is roughly sunrise to an hour after sunset.
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.
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