San Sebastián Webcam Live
La Concha's shell-shaped bay, the Zurriola surf beach beside the Kursaal, and Ondarreta beneath Monte Igueldo. San Sebastián, Donostia in Basque, one of Europe's most celebrated urban beach cities. Live 24/7.
Three official beach webcams, from the shell bay to the surf
The Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa broadcasts live views of San Sebastián's three main beaches: La Concha, the shell-shaped bay at the city's heart; Zurriola, the surf beach beside the Kursaal; and Ondarreta, beneath Monte Igueldo.
San Sebastián — the shell bay that became Spain's most fashionable resort
San Sebastián owes its shape to Queen Isabel II, who turned a modest fishing cove into Spain's most fashionable summer retreat in the 1840s, drawn by claims of the bay's healing waters. La Concha, "the shell," takes its name from the near-perfect crescent of golden sand curving 1.35 kilometres between Monte Urgull and Monte Igueldo, with the pine-covered Santa Clara island sitting at its centre as a natural breakwater. The ornate white ironwork railings lining the Paseo de la Concha, installed in 1916, remain the city's most photographed symbol of that Belle Époque transformation.
Not every beach in the city sits inside that sheltered bay. Zurriola, on the far side of the Urumea river mouth, faces the open Cantabrian Sea directly and has drawn surfers since the mid-20th century; a 1994 breakwater project reshaped its waves into some of the best urban surf breaks in Europe, beneath Rafael Moneo's glass-cube Kursaal building.
What the three cameras show
La Concha
Diputación de Gipuzkoa · San SebastiánLive view of San Sebastián's shell-shaped bay, with Santa Clara island and Monte Igueldo in the background.
Watch live →Zurriola
Diputación de Gipuzkoa · San SebastiánLive view of the Zurriola surf beach, facing the open Cantabrian Sea beside the Kursaal.
Watch live →Ondarreta
Diputación de Gipuzkoa · San SebastiánLive view of Ondarreta beach, the western continuation of the bay beneath Monte Igueldo.
Watch live →The Kursaal's twin translucent cubes, designed by Rafael Moneo, host the San Sebastián International Film Festival each September, drawing red-carpet crowds to the same stretch of promenade where surfers paddle out at dawn. Locals half-joke that the building is Bilbao's Guggenheim in miniature — a nod to how thoroughly it reshaped this end of the city.
San Sebastián beyond the webcams
Monte Igueldo: reached by a vintage funicular running since 1912, offering the classic postcard view of Santa Clara island centred in the bay.
Peine del Viento: Eduardo Chillida's iron sculptures anchored in the rocks at the far end of Ondarreta, one of the Basque Country's best-known works of public art.
Parte Vieja: the old town behind La Concha and Zurriola, dense with pintxos bars and considered one of Spain's finest food destinations.
A city built around the shape of its own bay: San Sebastián turned a healing-waters fad from the 1840s into a permanent identity, and has spent nearly two centuries making sure the view from the Paseo de la Concha never gets old.
When to watch
Zurriola, early morning: for the clearest view of the surf lineup before the beach fills for the day.
Getting there: La Concha and Ondarreta share the same bay on the western side of the city centre; Zurriola sits across the Urumea river mouth to the east, Basque Country, Spain.
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