Live Webcams in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, Russia's second city and the capital of its empire for two centuries, spreads across the delta of the Neva at the top of the Gulf of Finland, and the live webcams in Saint Petersburg show a city of two speeds: the granite embankments and palace facades of the historic centre, and the wide avenues, tram lines and metro entrances of the residential districts where most of its 5.6 million people actually live. Saint Petersburg keeps Moscow time, UTC+3 all year with no summer change, and its light is the thing to plan around: in June the white nights leave the sky pale past midnight, while a December afternoon is dark by four. Winter brings snow, frozen canals and the orange glow of street lamps; summer brings the drawbridges lifting on the Neva after one in the morning. Visitors from Russia type Санкт-Петербург, or simply Питер.