Surrey traffic cameras, from the Fraser Highway build site to the M25

At 18:10 local time on 10 October the camera at Fraser Highway and 158 Street in Fleetwood had a finished concrete guideway running across the top of the frame, a half-built pier standing in a fenced box of gravel underneath it, and a black saloon waiting at the light in the foreground. That is the Surrey Langley SkyTrain extension going up, a minute at a time, and it is the best argument I know for opening a traffic camera when you have no interest in the traffic.

It is also only half an answer, because there are two Surreys and the search box does not know which one you meant. One is a city of half a million people on the Fraser River, east of Vancouver. The other is an English county south-west of London, wrapped around the M25. Both publish cameras. They publish completely different kinds, run by different people, at different speeds, and a page that covers one and ignores the other is no use to half the people reading it. So here is both.

Surrey, British Columbia

Counted on 2026-10-11, we list 78 live cameras with Surrey as their city in Canada: 74 from DriveBC, 3 from the City of Surrey's own network, and one beach camera. The split matters more than the number, because the two networks behave nothing alike.

The city cameras are the ones to open first. 96 Avenue at 12800 block in Whalley is a true fisheye, the whole intersection bent into a circle inside a black frame, so you can watch all four approaches and both parking lots at once without the camera panning anywhere. The Fraser Highway one above sits under the new guideway. I polled the upstream image for both this morning and the Last-Modified header stepped 01:16:03, 01:17:03, 01:18:02, 01:19:02 and 01:20:02 UTC, so they are on a sixty second cycle, and the burnt-in clock in the corner tells you exactly how old the frame in front of you is. That last detail is rarer than it should be.

The City of Surrey says its own system covers 500 major intersections, and we index three of them, so for the other 497 the city's map is the place to go rather than ours.

DriveBC's cameras are the provincial highways, and they are slower and wider. Port Mann Bridge east looks down Highway 1 across six lanes to the Exit 48 gantry for 152 Street, with a green Hope sign in the bottom corner and the trees of the Fraser Valley closing in behind. When I pulled it at 18:11 Pacific the frame was stamped 18:06:42, so you are looking at something around five minutes old. For a motorway that is fine. For judging whether to leave now it is not, and the burnt-in clock is how you tell the difference.

The rest of the DriveBC set is arranged in fours, one per direction, which is unusual and useful. Highway 1 at 176 Street, Highway 17 at 104 Avenue on the South Fraser Perimeter Road, and Tannery Road near the Pattullo all give you four simultaneous views of the same junction. Two of the most watchable sit at the border: Highway 15 at 8 Avenue and the Pacific Border Crossing both point at the queue for the United States, and on a Sunday afternoon in summer that queue is the entire story of the picture.

Surrey, England

Within 25 km of Guildford we list 94 live cameras, 83 of them National Highways. Inside 10 km there are 8, every one on the A3.

Not one of those 94 comes from the county council. English counties run cameras for average speed enforcement and for yellow box junctions, and those are a different machine entirely, not one you can watch. What you can watch is the strategic road network, which around Guildford is dense, plus a thin scatter of private cameras: an airfield, a sailing club, a golf course. The A3 is covered from Wood Street through Jacobs Well, West Clandon, Send and Ripley, roughly one camera every kilometre and a half. The Wood Street frame I pulled at 01:11 UTC carried a burnt-in stamp of 02:11 British time, same minute, which is as current as a public camera gets.

North of that the M25 between junctions 9 and 11 runs through Downside, Hatchford, Byfleet, Ottershaw, Leatherhead and Fetcham, and the M3 between junctions 2 and 4 covers Camberley, Bagshot, Lightwater, Frimley, Chobham and Windlesham. At two in the morning the Dorking camera is a monochrome strip of four empty lanes under the lighting columns with one car in it, which is its own kind of pleasure. At eight it is the reason you took the train.

Not everything in Surrey is tarmac. Surrey Heath's London Transport Flying Club watches a grass airfield at Fairoaks, clubhouse lit at the left edge, treeline across the middle, and at 02:03 nothing moving at all, which is what you would hope. It is a daytime camera. So is Ranmore Common up on the North Downs, where the frame I fetched at 02:15 came to 2,415 bytes of near-black with two pinpricks of light in it, because there is nothing out there to light it. Come back for that one in daylight in the next fortnight, when the beech on the Downs turns.

What we are doing with these

We re-check every camera on the site on a daily cycle, and the two Surreys are a good test of it, because one network stamps its frames and the other does not. Where there is a burnt-in clock we can tell a stale frame from a quiet road. Where there is not, a motorway at four in the morning and a camera that stopped three days ago look identical, and we are leaning harder on image comparison to tell them apart.

The thing I have not solved is the naming. A person who types those two words gets one Surrey or the other depending on where they are sitting, and no amount of good camera pages fixes that at the search layer. We split the two on our location pages and we have split them here. Whether that is enough, I genuinely do not know yet, and the number I will report next is how many people land on this page and then click through to the wrong country.