Live Webcams in Helsinki

Helsinki, the seaside capital of Finland, is a city that lives by its ferries, and the live webcams in Helsinki watch the busiest of its harbours: the passenger port on the western edge of the centre, where white ships the height of apartment blocks load for Tallinn and Stockholm and back out into the Gulf of Finland. Watching it live is watching a border crossing that runs like a bus route. Helsingfors keeps Eastern European Time, UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer, so the morning departures start around 05:00 UTC and the evening ships slip out under a sky that never quite darkens in June. The Tallinn crossing covers some 80 kilometres of open water in about two hours, which is why the ferries leave close to hourly. May to September for the bright nights on the water; February for the sight of ships pushing through sea ice.