What you can see on the Playa Langosta cam
The view passes over the red roofs and pools of a resort to the beach and the bay beyond. The water here is pale and clear, and on calm days it barely moves. You can see how far the shallows reach before the bay turns a deeper blue, and on clear days Isla Mujeres sits low on the horizon.
The curve of Playa Langosta
High above Playa Langosta, this camera of Webcams de México looks down on the curve of the beach, the shallow water of the bay and the pier with its boats, with the sea stretching to the horizon.
It is the widest view of the beach on this page, good for the colour of the water and the weather over the bay.
Playa Langosta over the roofs of The Royal Cancun
This camera looks down on a resort at about km 4.5, on the bay side: white buildings with red-tiled roofs, a winding pool lined with blue umbrellas, palms and a restaurant under a thatched roof. Beyond the last roofs lies the bay, smooth and pale near the shore, with hotel towers low on the far horizon.
There is more resort than beach in the picture, so it works mainly as a view of the weather and of how calm the bay is. Royal Resorts, the group that runs the hotel, streams it with the camera's name and the time across the top.
A beach for wading
The short arm of the hotel zone looks north over the Bahía de Mujeres. The bay is shallow, with a sandy bottom that slopes gently away from the shore, and Punta Cancún and Isla Mujeres keep most of the open-sea swell out of it. That is why the sea here so often looks like a lake, and why parents can let small children paddle at the edge.
Small boats, sailboats and the ferries that cross to Isla Mujeres move across the bay from piers along this stretch of the hotel zone. The calm has one exception: in winter, cold fronts known as nortes blow from the north straight into the bay, and the waves build until the red flag goes up.
When to watch Playa Langosta
Mornings on the bay are usually still and bright, and in the evening the sun goes down to the west, beyond downtown, coloring the water. December to April brings mostly dry days, broken now and then by a norte; on those days the cam shows rows of small waves across a bay that is usually as flat as a lake. Sargassum mostly piles up on the open Caribbean side, though it can reach the bay between spring and autumn.
Nearby
Playa Tortugas, a little east along the boulevard, is one of the departure points for the ferries to Isla Mujeres. Behind the beach, across the boulevard, lie the Nichupté Lagoon and its mangroves. Punta Cancún and the open-sea beaches are a few kilometers further east.
Getting there
Playa Langosta has a public access from Kukulcán Boulevard, where city buses stop. Stay away from the pier and the passing boats, and keep an eye on children even in water that barely reaches their knees.
