Part of our complete guide: Madeira webcams: 18 live streams from across the island
Camera by Portal Netmadeira. Nothing reaches YouTube until you click. The click sends data to Google, including your IP address.
What you see
The seafront, the shingle beach, the water. On the right the coast breaks into a wall that shelters the town from the west — the same wall that gives it its weather.
When it’s best
When things look bad everywhere else. That is the entire point of this camera: when Funchal is under low cloud and the day looks lost, it shows blue sky here surprisingly often. Forty minutes’ drive, different weather.
Second-best is sunset. The camera faces south-west and the sun goes down in frame.
Watch it or go?
Go — but as plan B, not plan A. Ponta do Sol isn’t a sight, it’s a quiet town with a shingle beach, a few cafes on the water and dependable light. Exactly right for a day when the north is drowning.
If you’re already there: the Levada do Moinho starts above the town, and Calheta, with the only sand beach in the area, is twenty minutes on. More in the West chapter.
