Barbados webcam
Ragged Point, on the Atlantic coast of Barbados.
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An island apart
Barbados lies on its own about 160 km (100 miles) east of the chain of the Lesser Antilles, the easternmost island of the Caribbean. It is a low island of coral limestone, about 430 km² (166 sq mi), home to about 270,000 people, and was a British colony until 1966. Its west coast faces the calm Caribbean, with the beaches of the Platinum Coast; its east coast takes the full force of the Atlantic.
The Atlantic side
The camera is on the east coast, at Ragged Point, where a research station run by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology studies the clouds brought by the trade winds. It is a view for sunrises, skies and weather rather than for beaches: the first light of the day over the ocean, the clouds marching in from Africa and the squalls on the horizon.
When to watch Barbados
Barbados keeps Atlantic Standard Time all year, four hours behind UTC. The dry season, from about December to May, brings steady trade winds; the rainy season, from June to November, is also the hurricane season.