Monterey Peninsula · Big Sur · live now
The coast,
live.
One free live map of the Monterey Peninsula and the Big Sur coast — what's on this week, the scenic drives, 16 mapped Big Sur turnouts, road and fire status, and a live webcam. No app, no signup.
🛣 Highway 1 (Big Sur): open · Caltrans reports no Highway 1 closure in the Big Sur area.
🆘 16 active incidents
Ongoing
🎨 Monterey Museum of Art — Current Exhibitions · Monterey Museum of Art · through Dec 31 🎨 Monterey Museum of Art at La Mirada · Monterey Museum of Art · through Dec 31 🎨 Open Studios Santa Cruz County 2026 (41st Annual) · County-wide (Santa Cruz County) · through Oct 18Art this week
SAT Saturday, October 10
🎪
Day 2 of 2
Biers & Gears: Oktoberfest & Moto
Monterey County Fair & Event Center · Monterey
🎨
4 pm
Meet the Makers — artist-owned gallery tour & wine tasting
Devendorf Park · Carmel-by-the-Sea
SUN Sunday, October 11
🎪
12 pm
MPYRE Strikes Back! Burning Man Decompression
Monterey Bay Park, Del Monte Beach (Window on the Bay), 699 Del Monte Ave · Monterey
TUE Tuesday, October 13
🎷
7 pm
Roger McGuinn of the Byrds
Sunset Center · Carmel-by-the-Sea
SAT Saturday, October 17
🎷
7:30 pm
Monterey Symphony: Appalachian Spring + Alexi Kenney
Sunset Center · Carmel-by-the-Sea
SUN Sunday, October 18
🎷
3 pm
Monterey Symphony: Appalachian Spring + Alexi Kenney (matinee)
Sunset Center · Carmel-by-the-Sea
Coming up
⛳
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2027
Feb 1–7, 2027 · Pebble Beach — The PGA TOUR Signature Event on Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill — tournament rounds Thursday to Sunday, Feb 4–7.
the schedule →
🎷
Monterey Jazz Festival 2027
Sep 24–26, 2027 · Monterey County Fairgrounds — The 70th Monterey Jazz Festival — three days on the fairgrounds. Lineup and schedule to be announced by the festival.
the schedule →
Specialty maps
🌊
Big Sur drive
Highway 1 from Carmel to Cambria with the 16 legal turnouts, the live road status, and where you can actually stop.
drive the coast →
🆓
Free things to do
Art walks, farmers markets, tidepools, trails and cars & coffee that cost nothing — each checked against its own page, with paid parking called out.
spend $0 →
🌊
Ocean today
Surf, dive and tidepool conditions for 13 spots from Santa Cruz to Point Lobos: live buoys, water temperature, wind, tides and the next good low tides.
check the ocean →
➕
Add your event
Gallery night, open studio or art walk coming up? Put it on the map for free. Paste a link and we fill in the rest.
list it →
🌫
Weather map
Watch the fog, wind and rain move across the bay, then slide 48 hours ahead. With Lee Solomon's local forecast from Beyond Weather.
watch the fog →
📷
Weathercam
A live 4K view out over Monterey Bay: watch the fog come and go, and a full 24 hours in a few minutes with the daily timelapse.
see the bay now →
🚦
Road Conditions
Closures, CHP incidents and highway cameras on one live map: closed roads in red, scheduled closures in pink, enforcement zones and live venues.
check the roads →
🚨
Enforcement
What's enforced right now: the Bixby no-parking ban, plate readers, Carmel's loud-vehicle rule and the Big Sur shoulder bans — with the source for each one.
know the zones →
📷
Plate readers
Every Flock ALPR camera mapped across the county. Permanent fixtures — they read every plate that passes, all year.
see the cameras →
🔥
Fire & road status
Every active incident in the region, the evacuation zones, and Highway 1's status — checked against CAL FIRE, CalOES and Caltrans automatically, around the clock.
check before you drive →
🏁
Event Venues
The peninsula's event venues on one map, each pulsing while something is actually running — an hour before through an hour after. Just where the week is right now.
see what's on →
📹
Live webcam
Live over Monterey Bay with viewer-controlled presets — take the wheel and look around the coast right now.
look around →
Everything on the coast
🚗
Car Spotter
Snap a car, we blur the plate and pin it on the map, an AI IDs it, and you get the spot credited to you.
play →
🏎️
Spotted Cars
Every car spotted around Monterey, live on one map. Watch the supercars roll in as people spot them.
see the map →
🏆
Spotters' Gallery
The leaderboard plus every car spotted around Monterey — who's found the most, and the photos to prove it.
see the board →
🗺️
The map
30+ live layers: events, galleries, road closures, live buses and trains, ships, planes, surf — and the enforcement in force now, from the Bixby parking ban to plate readers.
open →
📺
The live channel
A self-running broadcast: the bay webcam, 3D circuit flyovers, today's board, and cars as they're spotted — with an AI pit-lane commentary voice.
watch →
🎯
My Garage
The car Pokédex. Photograph an F40, a 917, a 250 GTO on the street — the AI verifies it and you've caught it. 50 legends and rarities to collect.
start collecting →
How to use it
STEP 1
Open the map
Works in any browser. Add it to your home screen and it installs like an app — same live map everywhere.
STEP 2
Turn on what you care about
The layers button holds everything — events, drives, turnouts, enforcement, ships, weather. Tap a pin for the full story and directions.
STEP 3
Spot, catch, share
See something rare? Open the Car Spotter, snap it, and the AI adds it to your garage. Follow a guided drive and your finish earns a badge.
Press & story angles: the press kit · put the webcam or map on your own site free: embeds · every feature explained: the guide · data sources & credits: who we rely on. Independent project — not affiliated with any event organizer.