Live Ka'anapali Beach Webcam from the Maui Kai Rooftop

Most Maui webcams show one fixed frame. This one is yours. Click the controls at the bottom of the player and the camera responds to your input, moving to the spot you want. If another visitor is already directing the camera, the player holds a short queue; when their turn ends, yours begins. Refresh the page if the controls do not respond.

Travelers on the Maui TripAdvisor forum have pointed this cam at Honua Kai, Mahana, and the Kaanapali resort strip for years. If you came here to check conditions in front of your condo down the beach, or to see what the wind is doing at Black Rock before a snorkel trip, you are in the right place.

Camera controls on touch devices are currently limited. Use a desktop or laptop to control the camera; the live feed itself plays fine on any device. The live Maui Kai webcam is streamed by Ozolio.

Nine places the camera can show you, starting from the default and working outward along the coast.

Molokai and Lanai across the channel

This is where the camera rests when no one is directing it. Look straight out and you see the Pailolo Channel between Maui and her sister islands. From May through October the sun drops between them in the evening; from late November through early May, humpback whales travel through this same frame, sometimes within a few hundred yards of the beach.

Black Rock at the south end of Ka'anapali

Black Rock is the lava promontory at the south end of Ka'anapali Beach, about a half-hour walk from Maui Kai along the sand. Its Hawaiian name is Keka'a Point. Pan south and zoom and you will see the cliff-diving point, snorkelers along the north-facing reef, and the Sheraton Maui Resort built above it.

Airport Beach directly south of Maui Kai

Airport Beach is the wider, quieter stretch of sand directly south of Maui Kai, named for the airstrip that used to run parallel to the coast. Early mornings you can see snorkel-tour boats loading from the beach. By midday it is one of the most consistent swim-and-boogie-board spots on this side of the island.

The Ka'anapali Resort strip a mile down the beach

Zoom the camera as far south as it goes and you will see the beach walk lined with the Westin, Sheraton, Hyatt, and Marriott, plus the Whalers Village shopping center. The stretch of coast between Maui Kai and the resorts stays undeveloped oceanfront, so the resort strip reads as its own cluster in the distance rather than a continuation of the same beach.

Honokowai Point just north of the property

Honokowai Point is the rocky reef immediately north of Maui Kai that gives this corner of the beach its calmer water. Sea turtles rest here most afternoons. In winter the point takes the north swell and lights up with surf; the reef stays shallow and clear even on windy days.

Honua Kai and Mahana at the Honokowai end

Honua Kai and Mahana are two of the larger condo-hotels at the Honokowai end of the beach. Pan north to see them, their pool decks, and the beach in front. This is the use travelers on the Maui TripAdvisor forum have been recommending since 2018, usually to compare what a neighboring property looks like from the outside before booking.

Kahana and Napili toward the Kapalua headlands

Keep panning north and the coastline bends toward Kahana, Napili Bay, and Kapalua. Napili Bay itself hides behind the point on most days. The West Maui mountains catch the light in the afternoon and turn the ridgeline a color you do not see from the resort strip.

The reef directly in front of Maui Kai

The reef directly in front of Maui Kai sits right below the camera. Tilt down and zoom and you will see the shallow snorkel reef, the occasional monk seal hauled out in winter, and the green sea turtles that come ashore past the shorebreak on calm afternoons.

Humpback whales in the channel (late November through early May)

During humpback whale season, the default view becomes the spot. Tilt slightly down and pan slowly across the channel; from late November through early May, peak January through early March, whales are visible breaching and tail-slapping without needing zoom. On the lanai you would also hear the blow, which the webcam cannot deliver.

The webcam sits on the roof, one level above our top-floor condos. Every Maui Kai condo is direct oceanfront. The view you are watching is the view our guests wake up to from their lanai, shifted up by the height of the roof.

Four condo types share this frame. Junior suites are studios, smaller footprint, same direct ocean view. One-bedroom oceanfronts have a full oceanfront lanai on one side of the building. One-bedroom corner oceanfronts are the premium view product, with a lanai wrapping two sides of the unit; guests pay about twenty-five percent more to book them and they are the highest-earning unit type in the rental program. Two-bedrooms are the largest layout, deeper floor plan and the highest nightly rate.

Two guests wrote in the lanai guest book earlier this year:

Great views of whales from the lanai

and

The whales were always on display for us

If you are ready to look at dates, floors, and specific condos, check available vacation rentals at Maui Kai.

The sound of the waves is the part a webcam cannot deliver. Guests write about it more than anything else in the lanai guest book. "Love hearing the waves all night long" (Lottie and Joseph). "Waking up to the sound of waves was the best part of living here" (Swaati, Pineet, and Ayaansh). "Sleeping with the doors open is the best" (Lisa Van Bakel). A live video feed from a rooftop is not the same as the open lanai door at three in the morning. That part you have to book to hear.

Maui Kai is the closest building to the water on this stretch of Ka'anapali Beach, at the north end just into Honokowai. Twenty-five to twenty-six individually owned oceanfront condos, no street-side units, every one of them direct oceanfront. No resort fees. No booking fees. Free parking. The rental program has been operating continuously since 1970. The live Ka'anapali webcam at the top of this page shows the view every oceanfront condo shares.