Beach Guide

Ocean Beach Boardwalk

Calm Sound water · boardwalk lights · pool and slides

Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse
SUNSET CAM
LIVE cam

Animated preview · watch the live Ocean Beach Park cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers
🎡

Boardwalk Lights

after dusk

🌅

Sound Sunset

at sunset

🏊

Olympic Pool

all evening

🚢

Ledge Light

at dusk

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast
8OUT OF 10

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Admission

with parking

drops to $20 after 6 PM

Best sunset

boardwalk

the Sound opens to the west

Offshore

Ledge Light

New London Ledge Lighthouse at dusk

Best walk

the boardwalk

half-mile of sand at golden hour

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 Ocean Beach Park webcam. The Ocean Beach Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.

At Ocean Beach Park, the sun sets at 8:04 PM today — about 14h 18m of daylight. Sunrise was 5:46 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for Ocean Beach Park update at the top of the conditions page.