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Coast & Ocean

Still from the live camera at Caniço, MadeiraCoast & 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.
Still from the live camera at Caniçal, MadeiraCoast & 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.24. August 2026Still from the live camera at Seixal, MadeiraCoast & 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?24. August 2026Still from the live camera at Calheta, MadeiraCoast & 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.24. August 2026Still from the live camera at Ponta do Sol, MadeiraCoast & OceanPonta do Sol webcam: live from the sunniest place on MadeiraThe name means "point of sun", and it isn't marketing. The Lugar de Baixo weather station records an average of 605 mm of rain a year — several times that falls on the north coast.24. August 2026Still from the live camera at Câmara de Lobos, MadeiraCoast & OceanCâmara de Lobos webcam: live over the fishing bayFifteen minutes west of Funchal lies the bay Winston Churchill painted in 1950. The camera shows it from roughly the angle he sat at.24. August 2026Still from the live camera at Funchal, MadeiraCoast & OceanPenha de França webcam, Funchal: live view out to seaThis camera sits on the Penha de França hotel strip, east of the old town at the water's edge, looking out to open sea.24. August 2026The view from Cabo Girão along the south coast, 580 metres above the AtlanticCoast & OceanOut to the Desertas IslandsThree uninhabited, desert-like rock islands about 25 km south-east of Madeira, a nature reserve since 1990. From Funchal's seafront they are visible on clear days as a long bare silhouette on the horizon — which is exactly the appeal: you sail out to the thing you have been looking at from the balcony all week.24. August 2026The nine-kilometre sand beach on Porto SantoCoast & OceanTrips and activities on Porto SantoPorto Santo is Madeira's opposite: flat instead of steep, yellow instead of green, and with nine kilometres of unbroken sand it has the thing Madeira does not. About 40 km to the north-east, two hours twenty by ferry or fifteen minutes by air.24. August 2026The west coast at Jardim do Mar below a sheer rock faceCoast & OceanSunset tours on Madeira43 options from around €35. Two completely different kinds: on the water or on the mountain. Both work, for different reasons.24. August 2026