Live cameras in Westminster, United States

Westminster is a city in western Orange County, California, bordered by Garden Grove to the north and east, Seal Beach to the west, and Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley to the south. It was founded in 1870 by the Reverend Lemuel Webber as a Presbyterian temperance colony and incorporated in 1957. The 2020 census counted about 91,000 residents, and Vietnamese Americans make up a large share of them.

The city is the heart of Little Saigon, the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam, which grew after refugees arrived in the late 1970s. Bolsa Avenue is its main street, lined with restaurants, bakeries and jewelry shops, and the Asian Garden Mall is its best-known landmark. Each winter the Lunar New Year, known as Tết, brings a parade and festivals to the neighborhood. Westminster also has a place in civil rights history: the 1947 case Mendez v. Westminster ended the segregation of Mexican American children in California schools, years before Brown v. Board of Education.

The 405 and Beach Boulevard

The cameras attached to Westminster come from Caltrans and show still images that refresh every few minutes. Interstate 405, the San Diego Freeway, crosses the city and is one of the most heavily traveled freeways in the country, and State Route 22, the Garden Grove Freeway, runs along the north side toward Orange. Beach Boulevard, State Route 39, carries north-south traffic between the beach and the inland cities. Weekday rush hours, especially on the 405, show up clearly on these views.

Westminster is on Pacific Time and changes clocks in March and early November. The weather is mild most of the year, with a marine layer that often keeps summer mornings gray until midday. Summer sunsets are around eight, winter ones just before five, and the Tết celebrations usually fall in late January or February.

The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, a coastal wetland full of shorebirds, lies just south toward Huntington Beach, and the pier and old town of Seal Beach are a short drive west.

Sources: Westminster, California - Wikipedia · Caltrans QuickMap.