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1,373 cams
Taiwan's densest webcam coverage follows its highways. The freeway bureau maintains cameras along the main expressways that ring Taipei and run down the western corridor, where most of the island's 23 million people live. These traffic cams are used for congestion checks and incident response, and they give a reliable minute-by-minute picture of the commute. The second concentration is the airports and harbours. Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and the main domestic terminals have cameras on the runways and aprons, useful for spotters and for checking delays. The international ports of Kaohsiung and Keelung carry cameras that show container cranes and ferry traffic, and smaller fishing harbours along the east coast have a handful of views for weather and swell. Elsewhere, coverage is thinner but more scenic. The national parks in the central mountains, such as Taroko and Yushan, have weather cameras at trailheads and viewpoints, which hikers use to judge cloud and rain before setting out. A few riverside stations monitor water levels during typhoon season, and the imagery turns dramatic when a storm is approaching. What you won't find much of is street-level city watching; Taipei and Taichung have only scattered public cameras, mostly at intersections and squares, operated by the city traffic departments. For most of the island, the interesting live views are the ones that show the sea, the mountains, or the rain rolling in.