Edmonton Webcam – Watch the Skyline of Alberta’s Capital

The Edmonton Webcam streams a wide panorama from a high floor in downtown Edmonton, looking west across the Warehouse District toward the skyline of Alberta’s capital. A slim white tower rises near the middle of the frame, the curved lawn of O-day’min Park opens up below it, and office and apartment towers run out to a flat prairie horizon. Sky fills more than a third of the picture, which is what makes this a useful weather camera: weather moving in from the west often shows up here first, from summer thunderheads to winter snow squalls. Because the camera faces west, it also catches the sun going down behind the city. The feed is a very wide strip, so it sits between black bands at the top and bottom of the player.

About Edmonton

Edmonton sits on the North Saskatchewan River in central Alberta, 645 meters (2,116 feet) above sea level. It counted 1,010,899 residents at the 2021 census and 1,418,118 across the metropolitan area, which makes it the northernmost city and metro area in North America with more than a million people. The Hudson’s Bay Company founded Fort Edmonton in 1795 as a fur trading post. The settlement became a town in 1892 and a city in 1904, and on September 1, 1905 it was named capital of the new province.

The foreground of this view is the Warehouse District, the stretch between Jasper Avenue and 104 Avenue and from 103 Street to 109 Street where at least two dozen warehouses went up between 1909 and 1914. The large lawn in shot belongs to O-day’min Park, which opened on November 7, 2025 on land that had been surface parking lots. Its central lawn is shaped like a strawberry, after the Anishinaabe word o-day’min, meaning strawberries or heart-berries, and the park adds a toboggan slope, an off-leash dog area and a children’s play structure. Its pavilion won a 2026 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture.

Jasper Avenue, the city’s main street, runs west along the park’s southern edge. The tower crane beside the lawn marks a neighborhood that is still filling in, so this skyline keeps changing.

Weather and Climate in Edmonton

Edmonton has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters. January averages -10.3 C (13.5 F), with typical highs of -5.8 C (21.6 F) and lows of -14.7 C (5.5 F), and about 124 centimeters (49 inches) of snow falls in an average year. The record low is -49.4 C (-56.9 F), set in January 1886. On this camera, winter means snow on the roofs and the park lawn, a low sun, and lights coming on early: at the December solstice the city gets only about seven and a half hours of daylight, and the sun sets behind this view shortly after 4 p.m.

Summer is short and bright. July averages 18.1 C (64.6 F), with afternoon highs around 23.5 C (74.3 F), and it is also the wettest month, with 82.7 millimeters (3.26 inches) of a yearly 422.5 millimeters (16.6 inches). Summer thunderstorms can be frequent and occasionally severe: on July 31, 1987, an F4 tornado killed 27 people in the city, a day still remembered as Black Friday. At the June solstice Edmonton gets 17 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, and the sun sets over this view after 10 p.m. The city averages 2,344 hours of bright sunshine a year. By late September the trees along the streets on the right side of the frame have turned yellow.

Things to Do Near Downtown Edmonton

Most of downtown is walkable from the blocks in this view. A few streets east, Sir Winston Churchill Square is ringed by City Hall, the Art Gallery of Alberta, which opened in 2010, the Winspear Centre, the Citadel Theatre and the Stanley A. Milner Library. The Royal Alberta Museum is downtown too, and Rogers Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers since it opened in September 2016, anchors the ICE District. The Alberta Legislature Building stands at the southwest corner of the downtown core.

Below downtown, the North Saskatchewan River valley is the city’s big outdoor draw. Edmonton bills it as the largest expanse of urban parkland in North America, about 22 times the size of New York’s Central Park, with around 160 kilometers (99 miles) of trails. The valley holds the glass pyramids of the Muttart Conservatory, with plants from Mexico to Madagascar, the Edmonton Valley Zoo and Fort Edmonton Park, Canada’s largest living history museum. On the west side of the city, West Edmonton Mall was the largest shopping mall in the world from 1981 until 2004.

Similar Webcams You Might Like

Three more Canadian cameras to try after this one:

• Calgary Webcam
• Toronto Webcam
• Banff Aurora Webcam

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the weather in Edmonton right now?

The weather bar on this page shows the current temperature, conditions, humidity and wind in Edmonton, along with today’s sunrise and sunset times. The camera fills in what the numbers cannot: whether the sky over downtown is clear, whether a storm is building to the west, and whether snow is falling or lying on the roofs.

Is the Edmonton weather cam live?

Yes. The camera streams continuously from downtown Edmonton, through the night as well as the day. After dark it shows the lit towers and street lights rather than cloud detail, and in December the sun sets over this view shortly after 4 p.m., so a daytime look tells you the most about winter conditions.

What can you see on the Edmonton Webcam?

A wide panorama facing west from high up in downtown. The white tower near the middle, the lawn of O-day’min Park, the Warehouse District and the city’s towers fill the lower part of the frame, with a broad stretch of prairie sky above. On the right, lower blocks and tree-lined streets run out toward the horizon.

What is the park in the Edmonton webcam view?

The curved lawn in the foreground is O-day’min Park, between Jasper Avenue and 102 Avenue at 106 and 107 Street. It opened on November 7, 2025 on former parking lots, and its lawn is shaped like a strawberry to honor the park’s Anishinaabe name, which means strawberries or heart-berries.

Where is Edmonton located?

Edmonton is in central Alberta, Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River, at about 53.5 degrees north and 645 meters (2,116 feet) above sea level. It is the provincial capital and the northernmost city in North America with more than a million people.

How many hours of daylight does Edmonton get?

About 17 hours at the June solstice, when the sun sets over this view after 10 p.m., and about seven and a half hours at the December solstice, when it sets shortly after 4 p.m.

Why is the Edmonton webcam not working?

The operator restarts the broadcast from time to time, and each restart creates a new stream. This page follows the operator’s channel rather than one fixed video, so it switches to the new broadcast on its own once the stream is back. The black bands above and below the picture are normal: the camera produces a very wide panorama.

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