Live Webcams in Taipei

Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, sits in a basin ringed by green mountains at the north of the island, and the live webcams in Taipei show a city that lives between its river and its hills: the wharves and cycle paths along the Tamsui River, the viewpoints on the trails above the Xinyi district where the whole basin spreads out around Taipei 101, and the skyline lighting up after dark. Taipei keeps China Standard Time, UTC+8, with no daylight saving, so a European morning is Taipei's evening, the hour the river turns gold and the tower lights come on. Some 2.5 million people live in the city and seven million in the metro, and Taipei 101, at 508 metres, was the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010. October to December brings the clearest skies; typhoon season runs July to September. In Chinese the city is 臺北.