Texas TxDOT Cameras — Live Road Cameras & Map
All Texas TxDOT cameras — interactive statewide map
About this map
Texas is the second-biggest camera network we cover after Florida, and it has to be — this is a state where a single trip can cross a desert, a hill-country flash-flood zone, a hurricane coast and four of the country's most congested metros. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) runs a statewide Intelligent Transportation Systems network of roughly 4,200 traffic cameras spread across all 25 of its districts, published through its.txdot.gov. Our live Texas camera map pulls those feeds into one fast, searchable view so you can see the road before you commit to it, whether that's the I-35 grind through Austin, the Katy Freeway in Houston, or a lonely stretch of I-10 in the West Texas desert.
Coverage is densest exactly where the traffic is. The big four metros — Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio — carry the heaviest camera concentrations, watching the interstates, loops and tollways that knot together tens of millions of daily trips. Beyond the metros, cameras thin out but still cover the corridors that matter most to a through-traveler: I-10 and I-20 across the west, the Permian Basin around Odessa and Midland, the El Paso border, and the Rio Grande Valley down south. Use the area presets to jump straight to the region you're driving instead of hunting across the whole state.
One important thing to understand about every camera on this map: these are refreshing still images for monitoring traffic, not video, and the camera poles do not carry road-weather sensors. There is no pavement-temperature or ice readout built into a TxDOT traffic camera. Where you see a weather reading, it comes from the nearest National Weather Service airport station shown alongside each camera — useful for general temperature, wind and visibility context, but not a measurement of what's on the pavement in frame. Trust the picture for the road surface, and treat the airport reading as the regional backdrop.
Texas regions covered
Tap an area chip on the map to jump straight to any of these regions.
Statewide
The full TxDOT network across all 25 districts in one view — roughly 4,200 cameras from El Paso to the Sabine River and the Panhandle to the Rio Grande. Start here for a long cross-state haul on I-10, I-20, I-35 or I-45, then zoom into a metro preset for the detail. Because Texas spans so many climates at once, the statewide view is the fastest way to spot where conditions change: a clear desert run, a hill-country storm cell, an icy North Texas morning and a humid Gulf coast can all appear on the same screen.
Dallas–Fort Worth
The Metroplex is a freeway lattice, and the cameras cover it densely. You'll find I-35E and I-35W (the two halves of I-35 that split at Hillsboro and rejoin at Denton), I-30 between the two downtowns, I-20 across the south, I-635 (the LBJ Freeway) and I-820 looping the cities, US-75 (Central Expressway) and the Dallas North Tollway running north, and I-45 heading toward Houston. Watch the High Five interchange where I-635 meets US-75, plus the corridors through Arlington, Plano, Irving and Frisco and the approaches to DFW Airport. North Texas is also the metro most exposed to winter ice storms, so check these feeds hard when a freeze is forecast.
Houston
Houston's freeway system radiates from downtown through three rings, and the cameras follow it: I-10 (the Katy Freeway) east-west, I-45 (the Gulf Freeway south to Galveston, the North Freeway toward Dallas), I-610 (the Loop), US-59/I-69 (the Eastex and Southwest freeways), Beltway 8 (the Sam Houston Tollway), US-290 (the Northwest Freeway), SH-288 (the South Freeway) and the Grand Parkway (SH-99) outer ring, through Katy, Sugar Land and The Woodlands. This preset is a fast TxDOT overview of the region; for deeper, second-by-second metro coverage, our dedicated Houston TranStar map at /houston-cameras is the better tool. As a Gulf city, Houston is also ground zero for hurricane evacuation and flooding.
Austin
Austin's defining road is I-35, the spine through the center of town, and it is among the most congested and most construction-choked corridors in the entire state — the multi-year I-35 Capital Express rebuild is reshaping it from US-290 in the north through downtown and south past Ben White. The cameras also cover MoPac (Loop 1), US-183, SH-71, US-290 and the SH-130 toll bypass that lets through-traffic skirt the city to the east, plus the corridors through Round Rock and San Marcos. Austin sits squarely in Flash Flood Alley, so these feeds matter most when a hill-country storm parks over the watershed.
San Antonio
San Antonio is built around two beltways and a downtown interstate knot. The cameras cover I-35 north-south, I-10 east-west, I-37 heading south toward Corpus Christi, I-410 (the inner Loop) and Loop 1604 (the outer beltway), plus US-281 running north past the airport. Watch the junctions where I-10, I-35 and I-37 braid through downtown, and the growing congestion out on the US-281/Loop 1604 corridor on the booming north side. Like Austin up the road, San Antonio sits in Flash Flood Alley along the Balcones Escarpment, with New Braunfels and the I-35 corridor toward Austin especially flood-prone.
El Paso & West Texas
This preset stretches across the vast western half of the state. At the El Paso border, cameras watch I-10, US-54 (the Patriot Freeway) and Loop 375 — the partial beltway that runs as the Border Highway along the Rio Grande and over Transmountain Drive — near the Spaghetti Bowl interchange and the international crossings into New Mexico and Mexico. Eastward, coverage follows I-20 and I-10 through the Permian Basin oil country around Odessa and Midland, plus Abilene and San Angelo. West Texas hazards are their own breed: blowing dust that drops visibility in seconds, long empty stretches between services, and winter ice on the high plains.
Rio Grande Valley
Down at the southern tip, the Valley cameras cover the McAllen–Pharr–Edinburg–Harlingen–Brownsville corridor along I-2 and I-69C (which run concurrently with US-83 and US-281), the busy international bridges, and the border crossings that move enormous volumes of trade and travel. The preset also reaches west to Laredo, the southern end of I-35 and one of the country's busiest land ports. This is hurricane and tropical-storm country, with evacuation routes like US-77 and US-281 feeding north out of the Valley, plus extreme summer heat — always reasons to glance at a camera and the nearest airport reading before a long border-country drive.
Tips for using Texas road cameras
- Pick the area preset that matches your drive before anything else. With roughly 4,200 cameras statewide, the Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso & West Texas and Rio Grande Valley presets get you to the right cluster far faster than scanning the whole map.
- Remember what the weather number is: it's the nearest National Weather Service airport's reading shown alongside the camera, not a sensor on the road. Use it for temperature, wind and visibility context, but trust the still image itself for whether the pavement is wet, icy, dusty or flooded.
- In Flash Flood Alley — Austin, San Antonio, New Braunfels and the I-35 corridor between them — never drive into a flooded low-water crossing. 'Turn Around, Don't Drown' is the rule. Use the cameras to judge standing water on underpasses and creek crossings after any hill-country downpour.
- On the Gulf Coast and in the Valley during hurricane season, watch the evacuation corridors (I-37, I-45, US-59, US-77) early. When the state runs contraflow, the cameras show you how the lanes are actually flowing, but once an evacuation is ordered, follow the official routing over anything you see on screen.
- When a freeze hits North Texas, the Panhandle or the Hill Country, check the cameras before you drive — bridges and overpasses ice first and worst, and the February 2021 freeze is the reference point for how fast Texas roads can go from clear to deadly. A clear airport temperature near freezing plus a wet-looking surface in frame means assume ice.
- In West Texas, treat blowing dust as a stop-driving event: if cameras along I-10 or I-20 around the Permian Basin show a wall of dust, visibility can vanish in seconds. Pull fully off the road, take your foot off the brake and turn lights off — and use the camera to confirm conditions before re-entering the highway.
Live road cameras in other regions
The same fast camera map for the other states and provinces we cover.
Texas road camera guides
In-depth guides to the highways, passes and destinations we cover here.