Beach Guide

Seal Beach Pier

Pacific sunset - long wooden pier - Main Street glow

Small Town Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

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SUNSET CAM
LIVE cam

Animated preview · watch the live Seal Beach City cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers
🎣

Pier Anglers

all evening

🚴

Main Street Cyclists

all evening

🐚

Tide Walkers

low tide

🏐

Beach Volleyball

golden hour

🦭

Harbor Seals

at dusk

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast
8OUT OF 10

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Pier walk

free

1865 feet, no admission

Best spot

pier end

furthest from shore, cleanest horizon

Fishing

no license

free off a California public pier

Best photo

looking back

Main Street and the hills as backdrop

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 Seal Beach City webcam. The Seal Beach Pier Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.

At Seal Beach, the sun sets at 7:52 PM today — about 13h 46m of daylight. Sunrise was 6:07 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for Seal Beach update at the top of the conditions page.