Bahamas live webcams

Seven hundred islands

The Bahamas stretch for some 800 km (500 miles) south-east of Florida: about 700 islands and thousands of cays on the shallow banks of the Atlantic, with water so clear and so pale that it shows from space. Most visitors know Nassau, the capital, and its resorts, but the islands beyond it, the Out Islands, are a world of small villages, marinas and empty beaches.

The Out Islands

The cams are in three groups of them. On Eleuthera, the long, thin island east of Nassau, they look over the harbour of Governor's Harbour, the island's old main town, the Atlantic off Harbour Island, the islet of pink sand at its northern end, and the marina of Cape Eleuthera, at its south-west tip, on the edge of the deep Exuma Sound. In the Abacos, to the north, they watch Hope Town on Elbow Cay, the village of the striped lighthouse, and Green Turtle Cay, whose village, New Plymouth, was founded by Loyalists after the American Revolution; the Abacos were hit hard by Hurricane Dorian in 2019 and have been rebuilding since. And far to the west, on Bimini, the closest of the Bahamas to Florida, a cam looks over Radio Beach in Alice Town.

When to watch the Bahamas

The Bahamas keep the same clock as New York, with summer time from March to November. Winter brings cool fronts from the north and the clearest days; the hurricane season runs from June to November.