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Hiking & LevadasPR 11 Vereda dos Balcões: the viewing balconyTwenty minutes on an almost level path, ending on a rock spur looking into the Ribeira da Metade valley and across to the island's highest peaks. The easiest classified route on Madeira, and for many people their first walk here.8. September 2026
Hiking & LevadasPR 1 Pico do Arieiro to Pico Ruivo: the ridge walkThe island's best-known route links its two highest reachable summits. It does not run through the mountains but along the top of them — over a narrow volcanic ridge, through three tunnels, up and down something close to a thousand steps cut into the rock.8. September 2026
Hiking & LevadasPR 1.2 Pico Ruivo from Achada do TeixeiraThe highest point on Madeira by the most comfortable route there is: 1,857 m, about forty-five minutes uphill, paved and wide the whole way. If you want the summit but not the ridge of PR 1, this is your walk.8. September 2026
PracticalMadeira airport webcam: two live streams onto the runwayCristiano Ronaldo Airport at Santa Cruz is regarded as one of the most demanding commercial airports in Europe. Two cameras sit at the snack bars by the runway end and show you why.8. September 2026
Coast & OceanPraia dos Reis Magos webcam, Caniço: live from the beachTen minutes east of Funchal, below Caniço de Baixo, there's a small bay with a beach bar and a few boats. The camera looks straight at it.8. September 2026
Nature & ViewsSanto da Serra Golf webcam: live from 700 metres in the eastThe course sits on a plateau in the east, around 700 metres above the sea, and shows a weather that has little to do with the coast.8. September 2026
Coast & OceanCaniçal webcam: live from the harbour in the eastCaniçal sits at the eastern end of the island, just short of the point where Madeira stops being green.8. September 2026
Hiking & LevadasRabaçal webcam: live from the trailhead on the plateauIf you open only one camera on this island, make it this one.8. September 2026
Coast & OceanSeixal webcam: live from Madeira’s north coastThis camera answers a question worth an hour's drive: how big is the surf running in the north today?8. September 2026
Coast & OceanCalheta beach webcam: live from the sand by the Mudas museumMadeira is a volcanic island and therefore has almost no sand. Calheta is one of the two exceptions — and that one was built.8. September 2026