Live Webcams in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is a city kept low by law, and the live webcams in Washington show the two buildings that dominate it: the marble obelisk on the National Mall, lit around the clock, and the presidential residence on Pennsylvania Avenue, seen from a rooftop a few blocks away with its grounds and the city around it. The kinds of spots a Washington webcam watches are those rooftop views, where the flags, the motorcades and the weather over the Mall are the daily drama. The city keeps Eastern Time, UTC−5, UTC−4 in summer, which lands a Washington afternoon on a European evening, and the monument lights up around midnight in London. The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 is why nothing rises over the obelisk, and some 3,800 cherry trees around the Tidal Basin bloom in late March or early April.