El Matador Cove

Sea stacks frame the Pacific sunset from the cove floor

Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse

SUNSET CAM

LIVE cam

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Animated preview · watch the live cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers

🪨

Sea Stack Silhouettes

at sunset

📷

Photographers

golden hour

🦅

Cliff Swallows

all evening

🌊

Low Tide Pools

best at low

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

State fee

$8-12/day

Cash only at the state parking lot

Best time

low tide

1-2 hours before low opens the full cove

Wildlife

tide pools

Exposed at low tide around the stacks

Live cam

none

No webcam -- the experience is worth the drive

applause at the dip

Sunset time, countdown and the Sunset Score are computed live from Open-Meteo’s real cloud forecast at each day’s sunset hour. The in-page cam is an animated preview — tap “live cam” for the real webcam. The Cove Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.