Kīlauea's upper Southwest Rift Zone, looking northwest [MITDcam], Kilauea

Kīlauea's upper Southwest Rift Zone, looking northwest [MITDcam] stands at 19.3928° N, 155.3168° W, 3.4 km south-west of the centre of Kilauea, in Hawaii, United States. The nearest other camera on opencam is Halemaʻumaʻu Crater West Vent Lava Lake, 3.0 km to the east. In all, opencam lists 23 public cameras at Kīlauea.

It is a still picture that the camera renews every few minutes; while this page is open it asks for a fresh one every 15 seconds. The picture measured 2,688 × 1,520 pixels (QHD) when opencam last checked it, on 27 October 2026. opencam passes the picture on and stores none of it.

Today the sun rises at the camera at 06:20 and sets at 17:49 local time (HST, UTC−10), 11 h 28 min of daylight; between sunset and sunrise the picture is dark or shows only the lights.