Beach Guide

San Clemente Pier

Pacific sunset - Spanish village pier - bowl surf below

Spanish Village Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse
SUNSET CAM
LIVE cam

Animated preview · watch the live Surfline SC Pier cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers
🏄

Pier Bowl Surfers

all afternoon

🎣

Pier Anglers

all evening

🚂

Metrolink Beach Train

rush hour

🤿

Kelp Divers

afternoon

🐬

Dolphin Pods

golden hour

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast
8OUT OF 10

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Pier walk

free

open daily, no admission

Best spot

pier end

surf below, clean Pacific horizon

Fishing

no license

free off a California public pier

Best photo

looking north

whitewashed hillside and pier bowl

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 Surfline SC Pier webcam. The San Clemente Pier Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.

At San Clemente, the sun sets at 7:50 PM today — about 13h 44m of daylight. Sunrise was 6:05 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for San Clemente update at the top of the conditions page.