Part of our complete guide: Madeira webcams: 18 live streams from across the island
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What you see
Fairways between eucalyptus and laurel, with a bank of cloud often behind them. The course hosted the Madeira Islands Open for years and is considered the tougher of the island’s two — mostly because there is almost always wind.
When it’s best
As a check for anyone heading east. Santo da Serra sits exactly at the height where the north-east trade piles up. Cloud running through here while Caniçal is in sunshine below isn’t a contradiction — it’s the normal case.
If you’re going riding, walking, or to the Sunday market, pack a jacket: it’s reliably a few degrees cooler here than in Funchal.
Watch it or go?
Golfers: go, but book a tee time and expect wind.
For everyone else it’s a place you drive through on the way to the Ponta de São Lourenço — with one exception. The Sunday market at Santo da Serra is one of the few on the island where locals outnumber visitors.
