Live Webcams in Sitka

Sitka, Alaska, is the old capital of Russian America and the only town on the Inside Passage that faces the open Pacific, and the live webcams in Sitka show that meeting of town and ocean: rooftops and spruce, the grey water of the sound, and the cone of Mount Edgecumbe standing across it like a small Fuji. Harbour and town sit beneath the volcano, with the weather moving through in bands and the light changing by the minute. Sitka keeps Alaska Time, UTC−9, UTC−8 in summer, so evening in Europe finds Sitka at breakfast, and the long June daylight runs until a European breakfast. Mount Edgecumbe, the dormant volcano on Kruzof Island, stands 976 metres above the sound. The town's Tlingit name is Sheet'ká. June to August brings the light, the whales and the cruise ships; winter brings the storms.