Bakersfield Traffic Cameras
23 live traffic cameras around Bakersfield, California, straight from the state Department of Transportation. See what the roads look like right now before you leave.
- Cameras
- 23
- Live video
- 23
Main roads in Bakersfield
Live camera views in Bakersfield
About the Bakersfield cameras
These are the official California Department of Transportation cameras within about 30 km of downtown Bakersfield. They are the same feeds the state publishes, gathered here so you can check the whole metro area at once instead of one camera at a time.
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Driving in Bakersfield
Roadze tracks 23 traffic cameras in and around Bakersfield, California — 23 of them stream live video, the rest publish a fresh photo every few minutes. They belong to the California Department of Transportation and are the same feeds their own traffic operators watch.
Most of them sit on SR-99 (11), SR-58 (7) and I-5 (2). If you only check one before heading out, make it the road you actually take.
Summer heat and monsoon storms are the main hazards: a dry wash can flood a road in minutes, and dust storms cut visibility to nothing with almost no warning.
Cameras are public and free to watch — no account, no app. Each one shows what the road looks like right now, which is more useful than a traffic map when you want to know whether it is raining, whether the plows have been through, or whether that backup is an accident or just volume.
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Every camera in Bakersfield was checked today. 23 are listed as working. Roadze re-checks every camera daily against its transportation department, so a camera that goes dark disappears from this page instead of sitting here as a broken thumbnail.