SeaTac Airport Cam with Mountainous Views

It’s hard to know just what to focus on when viewing this live feed. While you may have joined the cam to watch some aviation traffic, you’ll probably find it almost impossible to take your eyes off the stunning sight of Mount Rainier. It dominates the landscape in a way that’s definitely difficult to ignore and diminishes everything around it, including the SeaTac Airport control tower and terminal buildings, to miniature.

Mount Rainier protrudes to a height of over four-thousand metres above the southwestern terrains of Washington state. While the active stratovolcano may look close to the airport that serves both Seattle and the city of Tahoma, surprisingly, it’s not. It’s actually over a hundred and twenty kilometres away. Its presence is so huge that even the largest aircraft appear to be, more or less, seagull-sized as they fly in and out.

There is no shortage of aircraft activity to see on this cam, albeit from a distance. Since the airport first opened for commercial flights in the late 1940s, its operations have expanded beyond belief and it now ranks in the top twenty of the US’s busiest airports. SeaTac’s three runways accommodate almost half a million flights annually. In 2024, those aircraft carried over fifty million passengers. A record breaking figure which the airport authorities are hoping to smash again in 2025. Good luck, we’ll all be watching those planes take off and land, or will be once we take our eyes off Mount Rainier.