Live cameras in Lompoc, United States

Lompoc lies in the valley of the Santa Ynez River in western Santa Barbara County, a few miles inland from the Pacific. About 44,400 people lived here in the 2020 census. The town calls itself the City of Arts and Flowers: it was long known as a flower seed capital, and growers still plant fields of larkspur, stock, delphinium and sweet peas across the valley floor. Mission La Purisima, founded in 1787 and rebuilt by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, sits in a state park just outside town. Vandenberg Space Force Base, the area's largest employer, spreads over the coast to the northwest.

The cameras on this page are Caltrans highway cameras on the two main roads into the valley: State Route 1, the north-south route through town, and State Route 246, which heads east toward Buellton and the Santa Ynez Valley. Caltrans shares them as still snapshots that update every few minutes, good for checking fog, wind-blown rain or traffic on the way to the coast. The page also links a NOAA BuoyCAM on an offshore weather buoy, which takes six pictures around the horizon to build one 360-degree strip, about hourly and only in daylight.

Lompoc runs on Pacific Time, UTC-8 in winter and UTC-7 during daylight time. The valley is often cool and breezy, with morning fog drifting in from the ocean much of the year. A few seasons stand out:

• flower fields in bloom, roughly mid-May through August, peaking in June
• the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival in late June
• clear fall days in September and October
• rocket launches from Vandenberg, which can often be seen from the area

South along the coast, our Isla Vista page has more Caltrans and buoy views near Santa Barbara, and Arroyo Grande to the north covers U.S. Route 101 through the Five Cities.

Sources: Lompoc, California - Wikipedia · Lompoc Flower Fields - Explore Lompoc · Caltrans CCTV documentation · NDBC BuoyCAMs.