The first of the two engineered beaches, opened in 2004 and put back after the April 2008 storms stripped it — 2,800 tonnes of sand landed in a single delivery. The rest of this municipality’s shoreline is what the island actually looks like: Jardim do Mar and Paul do Mar are pebble, are not designated bathing waters at all, and carry the swell that made them surf villages.
Live right now
These are live cameras, not photographs. They start on their own as you reach them.
Camera operated by Madeira-Web
What is here
Each of these is a page on this site about something in this area. The line under it is why you would go, not what the page is called.
The shoreline, as the paperwork describes it
Surface, entry and lifeguard cover, from the 2026 bathing portaria and the municipalities’ own published tariffs.
Praia da Calheta
Jardim do Mar
Paul do Mar
On film
Filmed and published by 4k itinerantur.
Getting there
West along the coast, past Ribeira Brava and Ponta do Sol. No bus number is printed here: this site publishes them only for the four destinations it checked against the operator’s own guides, and Calheta is not one of them.