Live Webcams in Nazaré

Nazaré, a fishing town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, is where the biggest waves on Earth are ridden, and the live webcams in Nazaré watch the water that makes them: the headland by the lighthouse above Praia do Norte, where the swells stack up, the jet-skis tow the surfers out and the crowd on the cliff waits for the set of the day. Nazaré keeps Western European Time, UTC+0, UTC+1 in summer, so the sessions run in daylight from about 08:00 to 17:30 UTC in winter, and the size depends on the forecast, not the clock. The lighthouse stands on the Fort of São Miguel Arcanjo, built in 1577 to guard the fishermen from pirates; the records set beneath it stand beyond 26 metres. October to March is the giant-swell season; in summer the same coast is a gentle beach town.