window.zip

Live windows onto the world.

window.zip opens a live public camera somewhere in the world, full screen, with its local time and the weather there right now. Ask for another one, pick a channel (rain, golden hour, city lights, beaches, street life…), or let it rotate on a timer. 360 windows in 62 countries. Free, no account, no ads of our own.

Where the cameras come from

Only cameras that someone publishes on purpose: live streams from the channels of the towns, harbours, ski resorts, parks, research stations and people that run them. Never cameras left open by accident. Every window credits its source and links to the original.

The video plays straight from the source, in its own player (YouTube, through youtube-nocookie.com). Nothing is recorded, copied or re-streamed here: our server only keeps the list of windows and the weather. When a video plays, YouTube’s terms and privacy policy apply to it.

Every camera is checked regularly, and one that has stopped streaming comes off the list. If one fails while you watch, the next window opens by itself.

Removing a camera

If you run one of these cameras and would rather it were not here, or you think one should not be public, write to us with the link to the window (it looks like https://window.zip/v/…). We take it out, no questions asked.

As a wallpaper

https://window.zip/wallpaper is the same window with nothing on top: no text, no buttons, no sound, a new one every few minutes. Browsers cannot set a web page as the desktop background by themselves, but two free apps can:

Choose a channel with c and the minutes between windows with every (1, 5, 15 or 30), for example window.zip/wallpaper?c=mountains&every=5. Channels:

picks Picks · rain Rain · golden-hour Golden hour · city-lights City lights · daylight Daylight · beaches Beaches · mountains Mountains · water Lakes & rivers · wildlife Wildlife · cities Cities · street-life Street life · music Music & parties · villages Villages · harbours Harbours · trains Trains · planes Planes · snow Snowing · sound With sound

Keys

Space or → another window · ← back · M sound · F full screen · / channels. On a phone, swipe sideways.

Weather, sun and map

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, under CC BY 4.0, refreshed every few minutes. Sunrise and sunset are calculated in your browser with SunCalc. The map uses Natural Earth (public domain).

Privacy

No account, no tracking cookies, no analytics. Your filters, timer and sound setting are kept in your own browser (localStorage) and never leave it. When a window fails to open, the browser tells our server which window it was, and nothing about you.

Every window

Who

Made by Concreto Abstracto, like its siblings arte.zip and opus.zip.