Webcams at Port of Los Angeles

Looks out over the middle of the Main Channel from the San Pedro side of the Vincent Thomas Bridge. The Port says plainly that its cameras "turn automatically, while views rotate and zoom in and out throughout the day", so it is not held on one angle.

The Port's own description of Camera 1 names "the historic battleship USS Iowa, Wilmington Clock Tower, Everport Container Terminal, Terminal Island, and San Pedro Promenade", and it says the scenes "may include cargo and cruise ship arrivals and departures, tugs, barges, fireboats, and active marine wildlife".

The Port never says this camera is trained on the World Cruise Center, and no berth number appears in its description — so treat it as the channel your ship sails down rather than a view of your pier. That said, the Main Channel is the water every ship leaving Berths 91-93 has to travel, and the USS Iowa at Berth 87 is the Port's own landmark a few hundred yards up the same waterfront, so a departure is a genuinely good bet if you watch around your sailing time. An arrival morning is the better watch: check the schedule above, then look about an hour before the published turnaround.

The same San Pedro camera as the Port's own player, republished on EarthCam's site.

The identical Main Channel view. Worth keeping only because one player loads when the other does not — EarthCam's page carries its own controls and its own ads.