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Nature Festival

The Madeira Nature Festival

The announced windows for the island’s outdoor-activities week, with a plain statement of what the official calendar does and does not publish about it.

Dates on this page are the announced ones for 2026, 2027, and 2028, and every one is shown with its year. That is deliberate: the commonest error online is a day-and-month line copied forward from a previous edition.

Programme detail on this page last read July 27, 2026.

What this actually is

The Nature Festival is a week of outdoor and adventure activity spread across the mountains, valleys and sea rather than concentrated in one place. It is the newest of the anchor events in the regional calendar, and the one whose programme is published latest — the window is fixed years ahead, the activities are not.

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Announced dates

One block per announced year. The window is the whole festival; the lines under it are the individual events the calendar names.

  • 2026

    Festival window:

    Published programme

    The calendar gives this year a window and no named listings. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.

    Checked July 25, 2026 · Source: Visit Madeira (opens in a new tab)

  • 2027

    Festival window:

    Published programme

    The calendar gives this year a window and no named listings. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.

    Checked July 25, 2026 · Source: Visit Madeira (opens in a new tab)

  • 2028

    Festival window:

    Published programme

    The calendar gives this year a window and no named listings. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.

    Checked July 25, 2026 · Source: Visit Madeira (opens in a new tab)

Beyond the calendar

What the dates do not tell you, from official pages rather than from us. Anything that could not be attributed was left out.

  • The official description is a week of sports activity in nature across the mountains, valleys and sea, built around adventure rather than around a venue.

    Source: Visit Madeira (opens in a new tab)

  • The calendar publishes the window and nothing else. Which activities run, whether they are free and whether they must be booked are not stated there, and are not stated here either — the regional events site carries them nearer the date.

    Source: Visit Madeira (opens in a new tab)

Where this comes from

Dates are transcribed from the Tourist Entertainment Calendar 2026–2028, published by the Regional Directorate for Tourism on June 1, 2026.

That document prints “Calendar subject to change” at the foot of every page, so treat everything here as announced rather than fixed.

Live right now

These are live cameras, not photographs. They start on their own as you reach them.

Avenida Arriaga, the avenue the Flower Festival and Carnival parades run along.

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The cameras are hosted on YouTube, so opening this page contacts Google. Nothing else on the page does.