Live Webcams in Le Havre

Le Havre, on the Normandy coast where the Seine meets the Channel, is France's first container port and a UNESCO city, and the live webcams in Le Havre show both: the harbour mouth with its ferries, pilots and container ships, the commerce basin in the middle of town, and Auguste Perret's reconstructed centre, 133 hectares of post-war concrete that the world now recognises as a masterpiece. Founded by François I in 1517 and rebuilt after 1944, the city is home to some 165,000 people. Le Havre keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer, so the port's morning traffic runs through the European working day. Mid-May to mid-September is the season, when the light that brought the Impressionists here — the town's museum holds one of France's great collections of them — is at its longest.