Antigua live webcams

An island of beaches and harbours

Antigua is the larger island of Antigua and Barbuda, an independent country in the Leeward Islands with about 100,000 people. Its coast is so deeply indented that locals like to say it has a beach for every day of the year, and its sheltered harbours have drawn sailors for centuries: English Harbour, in the south, holds Nelson's Dockyard, a Georgian naval dockyard on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

St. John's Harbour

St. John's, the capital, lies on a natural harbour on the north-west coast. Cruise ships dock at piers right beside the town, at Heritage Quay and Redcliffe Quay, and further in lies the deepwater harbour where the cargo ships tie up. The town itself is a grid of streets with wooden houses and the twin towers of St. John's Cathedral on its hill.

When to watch Antigua

Antigua keeps Atlantic Standard Time all year, four hours behind UTC. It is one of the drier islands of the eastern Caribbean, cooled by the trade wind; the hurricane season runs from June to November. Antigua Sailing Week, at the end of April, fills its harbours with yachts.