Webber, who leads the World Championship with Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel, produced a calm late lap of a minute 26.295 seconds to pip McLaren's Hamilton to top spot.
The 2008 world champion had snatched P1 with six minutes left of the 10-minute Q3 shootout - and when the leading contenders emerged from the garages on soft tyres with moments left it was all to play for.
Webber took top spot but Hamilton looked to have a chance as he set the fastest time in the first sector - only for Webber to further improve his benchmark.
Vettel made an error at the first corner to leave him ultimately in third while Hamilton's English compatriot and team-mate Jenson Button also made a mess of his final attempt at a quick lap and will start from fourth.
In fifth Michael Schumacher out-qualified Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg by one spot and a tenth of a second. However the seven-times champion flew off into the gravel on his last effort which may cause him problems as drivers must begin the race on the tyres they ended qualifying with.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa was eighth while double champion Fernando Alonso - third in the drivers' standings - in the sister F10 suffered a Q2 nightmare to finish in 12th.
Renault had two drivers in the top 10 with Robert Kubica seventh and Vitaly Petrov ninth. Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi defied recent form to reach Q3, but was unable to compete at that level.
Adrian Sutil of Force India will start ahead of Alonso, with Sauber's Pedro de la Rosa 13th ahead of Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso), Rubens Barrichello (Williams) and Buemi's young team-mate Jaime Alguersuari.
Barrichello's team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was the other driver to reach Q2 and will start 17th.
The main casualty of Q1 was Force India's Vitantonio Liuzzi, who will line up alongside rookie Hulkenberg and in front of the usual backmarkers of Lotus, Virgin and Hispania.
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