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Choose an outing from Funchal How your choices are stored 01 Every price, fee and timetable here was read from the source document, and carries the date we read it. 02 Where an official source contradicts itself, we say so and show you both versions. 03 Where we could not verify something, we leave it out rather than repeat it. Mobile app for Madeira buses
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Live right now The harbour, the runway and the mountain — the three views that tell you what kind of day the island is having.
Watch live Molhe da Pontinha, Funchal The cruise berth itself. If a ship is alongside, you will see it here. Camera operated by Portal Netmadeira
Out on the high plateau — the only live camera up there, and the catchment the 25 Fontes levada drains. Camera operated by Portal Netmadeira
The north coast, where the swell arrives first and hardest. Camera operated by Portal Netmadeira
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The questions people actually ask Six answers, each on a page that shows its working.
Madeira month by month Twelve pages, each with IPMA’s own figures for the coast and for the mountain, the sea temperature, and what is on.
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Three ways in The site is arranged as three shelves. Most visits start on one of them.
Plan Before you come, and the parts that go wrong.
Go What there is to do, and what it costs.
Places The island from wherever you actually are.
What we checked Three examples of the work. They are why the rest of the site reads the way it does.
01 Cabo Girão has cost €2, €3 and €5 — each of them correct in its turn. That is why every fact here carries the day we read it.
What we checked, and when 02 One shopping-centre address travel sites still print, dolcevita.pt, is live and is now an online casino. We name it and refuse to link it.
Shopping centres 03 Of the 14 bathing places we list, 5 have no assured lifeguard cover — stated in a footnote of the national portaria, and almost nowhere else.
The lifeguard table 