Nordfjordeid Webcam – Watch Ships Dock at the SeaWalk

The Nordfjordeid Webcam looks out from the cruise landing at the head of Eidsfjorden, straight along the SeaWalk, the 220 meter (722 foot) floating pier that carries passengers ashore. On a call day a cruise ship fills the middle of the frame, bow toward the camera, held off the shore by a big mooring buoy that bobs in front of it. Across the water, Nordfjordeid’s waterfront runs along the right of the picture under a bare mountain ridge, and the fjord opens away to the left toward the sea. A second camera on the roof of the Sagastad Viking center points west down the fjord and sits in the Fjord View tab above. Live Norway relays both feeds from the port’s own cameras, with a clock and a weather panel burned into the picture.

About Nordfjordeid

Nordfjordeid is a village of 3,178 people (2024) at the eastern end of Eidsfjorden, a branch of Nordfjord in western Norway. It covers just 2.53 square kilometers (0.98 square miles), yet it is the administrative center of Stad municipality in Vestland county. The Eidselva river runs through the village on its short way from Hornindalsvatnet to the fjord. That lake, just east of the village, is the deepest in Europe at 514 meters (1,686 feet). Stårheim lies 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) west along the north shore. Nordfjordeid is also the home of the Fjord horse, Norway’s national breed, and stallion shows have been held here since 1886.

Cruise traffic is the newer story, and it is what the camera watches. Instead of a fixed quay, the port installed a SeaWalk in 2017: three floating bridges of 72 meters (236 feet) each, 4.2 meters (13.8 feet) wide. A visiting ship moors between two 300 tonne buoys set 390 meters (1,280 feet) apart, and the port recommends vessels of 220 to 330 meters (722 to 1,083 feet) with a draught of up to 15 meters (49 feet). The first full season in 2019 brought 19 ships and about 60,000 visitors. By 2023 and 2024 that had grown to 70 calls a year, making Nordfjordeid the tenth most visited passenger terminal in Norway.

What the Nordfjordeid Webcam Shows

The main camera is fixed, mounted at the port security point where the SeaWalk meets the shore. The pier runs out from the bottom left of the frame, so a moored ship sits left of center with its bow toward you and the buoy between ship and camera. To the right, the brick halls and apartment blocks of the waterfront line the far shore below the ridge. With no ship in, which is most of the year outside the May to September season, the view is the empty pier, the water and the town.

The Fjord View tab is the camera on Sagastad’s pointed roof, about a 10 minute walk along the shore. The ridge of the roof leads the eye straight down Eidsfjorden to the west, with farms on the left bank, houses on the right bank and a channel marker just off the roof end. The port describes it as a rotating view, so the angle can change. Both feeds run around the clock, and the Sagastad camera switches to a monochrome low-light picture after dark.

Weather and Climate in Nordfjordeid

Nordfjordeid sits at about 62 degrees north, but the fjord keeps the climate mild for the latitude. Ten years of reanalysis data for the village give January highs of about 2 C (36 F) and lows near -3 C (27 F), so the shore is often bare while the ridge carries snow. It is a wet place: December, January and October each average around 260 millimeters (10 inches) of rain and sleet, and low cloud on the camera is common. April warms to highs of about 9 C (48 F).

Summer is when the ships come. July highs average about 19 C (66 F) with lows near 12 C (54 F), and May is the driest month at about 110 millimeters (4.3 inches). In June the sun barely sets this far north, so the fjord stays lit late into the evening. October runs about 10 C (50 F) by day and 5 C (41 F) at night, and in December the village gets only around six hours of daylight.

Things to Do Near Nordfjordeid

Sagastad is the obvious first stop, a 10 minute walk along the waterfront from the pier. The center opened on 10 May 2019 around a 30 meter (98 foot) full-size replica of the Myklebust ship, the largest Viking ship ever found in Norway, excavated from a burial mound on the Myklebust farm in the village. The Norwegian Fjord Horse Center offers rides and a look at the stocky dun horses bred here. Eid Church and Eidsgata, the old wooden main street, are both within the village.

Farther afield, coach tours from the pier head for the mountain farm at Lote, the golf course at Stokkenes and the surf beach at Hoddevika on the Stad peninsula, and there are bus and boat trips to the monastery ruins on the island of Selja. Loen, with its Skylift cable car above the inner Nordfjord, is a popular full-day excursion inland from the port.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What can you see on the Nordfjordeid Webcam?

The SeaWalk floating pier, any cruise ship moored at its end, the Nordfjordeid waterfront across the water and the mountains of Eidsfjorden. The Fjord View tab looks west down the fjord from the roof of Sagastad.

Where is the Nordfjordeid cruise port?

The SeaWalk landing is on Sjøgata on the Os side of the village, at the eastern end of Eidsfjorden in Stad municipality, Vestland county, Norway. The village center is a short walk away.

Does the Nordfjordeid Webcam show which ship is in port?

Not by name. There is no schedule on screen, and the port publishes its cruise list on its own website. The camera simply shows whether a ship is moored at the pier right now.

What is the weather like in Nordfjordeid?

Mild and wet for 62 degrees north. Winter days average about 2 C (36 F) with nights around -3 C (27 F), and summer days reach about 19 C (66 F). Rain falls in every month, heaviest from October to January, and May is the driest.

Can you get from Nordfjordeid cruise port to Loen Skylift?

Yes, as a coach excursion. Loen is inland toward Stryn on the inner Nordfjord, and the Skylift trip is one of the longer shore tours sold on call days, a full-day outing rather than a walk from the pier.

Is the Nordfjordeid Webcam live at night?

Yes. Both cameras stream around the clock. After dark the main camera shows the village lights reflected on the fjord, while the Sagastad camera switches to a monochrome low-light picture.

When is the cruise season in Nordfjordeid?

Ships call mainly from May to September, with occasional calls in October. Outside those months the webcam shows the empty pier, the fjord and the town.

Source: Live Norway and Port of Nordfjordeid