Avenida Paulista Webcams

On the morning of December 31, the finish line of the São Silvestre road race goes up in front of the Fundação Cásper Líbero building, home of TV Gazeta, at Avenida Paulista 900. The Avenida Paulista live cam watches that block in real time from a building at number 807, on the stretch between Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio and Alameda Campinas in central São Paulo, Brazil. The feed takes in the traffic lanes in both directions, the raised bike lane along the median and the office towers on this part of the avenue, and a second view (CAM 2) is one click away in the player.

Paulista Avenue opened on December 8, 1891, and turns 135 this December. The engineer Joaquim Eugênio de Lima laid it out along a ridge roughly 900 meters (about 2,950 feet) above sea level, and in 1909 it became the first street in the city paved with asphalt. It now runs about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) from Praça Oswaldo Cruz in Paraíso to Praça do Ciclista at Rua da Consolação. Of the São Paulo live cams on the site, this is the São Paulo webcam pointed at the city itself rather than at the runways in Guarulhos.

Weekdays: office crowds, buses and the raised bike lane

From Monday to Friday this stretch behaves like the financial district it became once the coffee-era mansions gave way to office towers from the 1950s on. The sidewalks are busiest around the morning and evening commute, when workers stream in and out of Brigadeiro station on Metro Line 2-Green, a few blocks southeast of the camera at the level of number 447.

Look along the center of the frame for the bike lane. It opened on June 28, 2015, runs 2.7 km along the median from Praça Oswaldo Cruz, and sits 18 cm (about 7 inches) above the car lanes, which is why cyclists on the live stream seem to ride on a long concrete platform between the two directions of traffic.

Because the camera covers both carriageways, it also works as a São Paulo traffic cam and a quick weather check: one look shows whether cars heading toward Paraíso are crawling or rain is falling on the avenue. On days when a rally is called you can also watch police and the city’s traffic agency, CET, close lanes. Paulista is the usual stage for São Paulo’s largest political demonstrations, which makes this one of the more eventful traffic cams we carry.

Paulista Avenue on Sunday: car-free from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Every Sunday and on public holidays, the Ruas Abertas program, better known as Paulista Aberta, keeps cars off the whole avenue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Praça do Ciclista to Praça Oswaldo Cruz, according to the city’s Sé district office. On the feed the switch is easy to spot: the buses disappear, cyclists spill out of the bike lane onto the full width of the road, and the asphalt fills with people on foot, skaters and street musicians setting up their amps.

The closure is not guaranteed. In 2026 the program was suspended on Paulista on May 1 and again on May 24, when the Virada Cultural festival took over downtown, so checking the Avenida Paulista webcam today is the quickest way to know whether the avenue is car-free before you board the Metro.

Sunday is also market day under MASP. The open span beneath the museum, several blocks northwest of the camera, has hosted an antiques fair on Sundays since a 1979 city decree, so a car-free walk up the avenue can end among its stalls.

Pride, São Silvestre and New Year’s Eve on the São Paulo live cam

The São Paulo LGBT+ Pride Parade, organized by APOLGBT-SP, held its 30th edition on Sunday, June 7, 2026. The trucks gathered near MASP and Rua Peixoto Gomide and rolled toward Rua da Consolação, so the floats run northwest of this camera, toward the opposite end of the avenue.

The last day of the year is when the Avenida Paulista live cam matters most. The São Silvestre, created by Cásper Líbero in 1925, starts on Paulista between Rua Augusta and Rua Frei Caneca, covers 15 km through downtown past Pacaembu stadium and Praça da República, and returns up Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio to the finish at number 900. The 100th edition, in 2025, drew about 55,000 runners from 48 countries, and the 101st is set for December 31, 2026, with the first waves leaving early in the morning as in past years.

That evening the Réveillon da Paulista takes over. For the switch from 2025 to 2026 the city staged 14 hours of free shows and 15 minutes of silent fireworks, with the main stage between Rua Haddock Lobo and Rua Bela Cintra, near the Consolação end. The stage sits well northwest of number 807, so this live webcam follows the crowd rather than the performers, and at midnight you can set it against other countdowns on our live webcams from around the world.

Getting to the Brigadeiro end of Paulista

Metro Line 2-Green runs beneath the avenue with three stations: Brigadeiro, Trianon-MASP and Consolação. Brigadeiro is the closest to the live camera. Consolação connects through a pedestrian tunnel of about 200 meters to Paulista station on Line 4-Yellow, handy if you are coming from Pinheiros or from Luz downtown.

Trianon-MASP leaves you at the São Paulo Museum of Art, the 1968 building by Lina Bo Bardi that hangs over a 74-meter open span on four red pillars, with free admission every Tuesday. Parque Trianon, a patch of Atlantic Forest, sits across the avenue. For the calmest walk, go on a Sunday morning under Paulista Aberta; to see the avenue at full speed, any weekday at the end of office hours does it.

If your trip starts with a long-haul flight, the GRU Guarulhos Airport live cam shows the runways at São Paulo’s main international airport. Once you are in town, the Avenida Paulista live cam will tell you whether the avenue is packed with commuters, closed for Paulista Aberta or already filling up for the São Silvestre.