Gdańsk Webcam Live
The Old Town on the Motława River, plus a rooftop view of the yacht marina and Main City. Gdańsk, a Baltic port that has witnessed the start of a world war and the fall of communism. Live 24/7.
Two webcams, from the Old Town to the marina
SkylineWebcams broadcasts a live view of Gdańsk's Old Town along the Motława River; the Marina Club Hotel runs a second live camera from its rooftop, overlooking the yacht marina and the Main City.
Gdańsk — a port city at the hinge of two world-changing moments
Gdańsk sits at both ends of the 20th century's defining conflicts. At 4:45am on 1 September 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the small Polish garrison at Westerplatte, on the peninsula just downriver — the first shots of the Second World War. The city, then the semi-autonomous Free City of Danzig, was almost entirely destroyed by the war's end, its historic centre reduced to roughly 10 percent of its pre-war state before Polish architects rebuilt it in painstaking detail through the 1950s and 60s.
Four decades later, Gdańsk changed history again from the opposite direction. In August 1980, shipyard workers led by electrician Lech Wałęsa occupied the Lenin Shipyard and founded Solidarność — Solidarity — the first independent trade union recognised inside the Soviet bloc. The movement's non-violent resistance helped trigger the eventual collapse of communism across Eastern Europe, and Wałęsa, later Poland's president, received the Nobel Peace Prize for it in 1983.
What the two cameras show
Old Town & Motława
SkylineWebcams · GdańskLive view of Gdańsk's Old Town along the Motława River, its colourful tenement houses reflected in the water.
Watch live →Yacht Marina
Marina Club Hotel · GdańskLive rooftop view of the yacht marina and the Main City, from the top of the Marina Club Hotel.
Watch live →The medieval Gdańsk Crane, or Żuraw, built in the 15th century, is the largest surviving port crane of its kind in Europe, once used to step masts and load cargo onto Hanseatic ships. Its twin timber wheels, powered entirely by men walking inside them like giant hamster wheels, could lift loads weighing up to two tonnes.
Gdańsk beyond the webcams
St. Mary's Church: one of the largest brick churches in the world, its Gothic vaulting able to hold up to 25,000 people.
Long Market & Neptune's Fountain: the historic heart of the Old Town, its 17th-century fountain a symbol of Gdańsk's ties to the sea.
European Solidarity Centre: a rust-clad museum beside the former Lenin Shipyard, telling the story of the movement that helped end communism in Europe.
A city where the opening shots of the Second World War were fired now stands almost entirely rebuilt, and the shipyard that once built warships became the birthplace of the movement that helped end the Cold War: Gdańsk carries both endings in the same waterfront.
When to watch
Old Town, golden hour: for the warmest light on the Motława's reflected tenement houses as evening settles in.
Getting there: Gdańsk's Old Town and the Motława riverfront sit at the heart of the city; the yacht marina lies a short walk away near Szafarnia, Pomerania, Poland.
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