Death Valley Webcam Live
Live views and weather from the national park that holds Earth's official record for the highest air temperature ever measured. Live 24/7.
Real-time weather from the hottest place in North America
Vision-Environnement broadcasts a live camera and weather station for Death Valley, sourced from the official Death Valley California Webcam network, showing real-time temperature, wind and sky conditions.
Death Valley — a name earned by pioneers who mostly survived it
In the winter of 1849-1850, a group of gold-rush emigrants took a supposed shortcut off the Old Spanish Trail and found themselves trapped in an unforgiving desert basin, uncertain they would ever get out. As the survivors finally climbed out over the Panamint Mountains, one reportedly turned back and muttered "goodbye, Death Valley" — and the name stuck, despite only one member of the party actually dying there. Today the valley anchors Death Valley National Park, at 3.4 million acres the largest national park in the contiguous United States, stretching across the California-Nevada border.
Two records define the place. Badwater Basin, just 17 miles from the park's Furnace Creek hub, sits 86 metres (282 feet) below sea level — the lowest point anywhere in North America, its surface a crust of hexagonal salt patterns left behind by an ancient lake. And on 10 July 1913, a thermometer at Furnace Creek registered 134°F (56.7°C), still recognised by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest air temperature ever officially recorded on Earth — though the reading has faced renewed scientific scrutiny in recent years over whether 1913-era instruments and methods could have overstated it.
What the camera shows
Death Valley Live
Vision-Environnement · Roundshot NetworkLive panoramic view and real-time weather data for Death Valley National Park, California.
Watch live →Badwater Basin sits less than 90 miles from Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet — meaning the lowest and highest points in the Lower 48 are visible from roughly the same stretch of desert. Telescope Peak, inside the park itself, is often snow-capped even while the valley floor bakes under triple-digit heat just a few thousand feet below.
Death Valley beyond the webcam
Badwater Basin: the lowest point in North America, its salt flats stretching for miles across the valley floor.
Zabriskie Point: a golden-hour viewpoint over eroded badlands, five miles east of Furnace Creek.
Devil's Golf Course: a jagged salt-crystal formation named for the idea that "only the devil could play golf" on such rough terrain.
A group of pioneers gave this valley its name while fleeing it, convinced they wouldn't survive — and were mostly wrong. More than a century and a half later, the place has become one of the most visited national parks in the country, precisely because of the extremes that once nearly killed the people who named it.
When to watch
Sunrise and sunset: for the softest light on Badwater Basin's salt flats, before the day's heat becomes extreme.
Getting there: Death Valley National Park sits along the California-Nevada border, roughly two hours from Las Vegas, California, USA.
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