Live cameras in Hawthorne, United States

Hawthorne is a city in the South Bay area of southwestern Los Angeles County, California, a few miles southeast of Los Angeles International Airport. The 2020 census counted about 88,000 residents. Developers founded it in 1905 and named it after the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who shared a Fourth of July birthday with one founder's daughter. For much of the twentieth century it was an aerospace town, and that tradition continues today: SpaceX builds its rockets and spacecraft at a large factory beside Hawthorne Municipal Airport.

Music fans know Hawthorne as the hometown of the Beach Boys; the Wilson brothers grew up here, and a landmark marks the site of their family home. The city is surrounded by Inglewood and Lennox to the north, Gardena to the east, Lawndale and Redondo Beach to the south, and El Segundo to the west.

Between the 405 and the 105

Every camera here comes from Caltrans, through the CWWP2 feed that also powers QuickMap, and each one shows a still picture updated every few minutes. Two major freeways frame the city: the San Diego Freeway, Interstate 405, runs along Hawthorne's western boundary, and the Century Freeway, Interstate 105, runs along its northern edge, with Metro light rail trains in its median. The views follow these routes and their interchanges, which carry heavy traffic to LAX, the beach cities and SoFi Stadium in neighboring Inglewood.

Hawthorne's clock is Pacific, like all of Los Angeles County. The coastal climate is mild, with morning clouds in late spring and early summer and little rain outside winter. Traffic on the 405 is among the heaviest in the country for much of the day, and event nights at SoFi Stadium and the Kia Forum add more. Summer sunsets come around eight.

The beaches of Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach are only a few miles southwest, and the aerospace offices of El Segundo sit just across the 405.

Sources: Hawthorne, California - Wikipedia · SpaceX headquarters - Wikipedia · Caltrans QuickMap.