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This weekend

Madeira this weekend

What can honestly be known about the coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday: which announced events cover those dates and how busy they make the island, the fuel prices in force, and what to do about a pharmacy when nobody publishes a duty rota.

Built from registers rather than from listings. It can tell you what has been officially announced for those three days and what the island’s practical numbers are. It cannot tell you what a bar has programmed for Saturday night, and it does not guess.

The weekend itself

Which weekend, and what is on it, is worked out as you read

This page is a static file, rebuilt on a schedule, so it does not know today’s date when it is written. The three dates of the coming weekend, and everything the events calendar says about them, are worked out in your browser when the page loads. Everything further down is true of any weekend and is printed exactly as the registers hold it.

The full events calendar, with every announced date

Filling the car

The Region homologates a maximum retail price every week and publishes it in its own gazette. These are the two road fuels at the ceiling set by the order this page was built from: a station may charge less, and several do, but none may charge more.

Unleaded petrol 95, per litre

€1.786

Road diesel, per litre

€1.897

In force from August 17, 2026

The full order, including the dyed diesel figure and what it is for

If you need a pharmacy

There is no duty rota here because there is none to publish: the regional health authority’s rota application returned nothing for every date we tested it against. So this page will not tell you which pharmacy is open. Telephone ahead, or read the notice posted in any pharmacy window, which is where the duty list is reliably published.

65 pharmacies are on the regional register, with their addresses and telephone numbers.

The register, with a telephone number for every pharmacy

What the island’s newsrooms were leading with

The headlines these feeds carried when this page was built, on August 17, 2026. Titles and links only: the story belongs to the publisher and the click is what they are owed. Anything since then is on their own front pages.

The news hub, with every source and what kind of body it is

What this page is built on

Nothing here is a claim about the moment you are reading. Each date below is the date a register itself carries, printed as a date. The only thing computed from the clock is which three days “this weekend” means, and that happens in your browser rather than at build time.

  • Fuel: the maximum prices in force from August 17, 2026.
  • Pharmacies: the regional register as read on August 17, 2026.
  • Headlines: the feeds as read on August 17, 2026.
  • Events: each listing carries its own verification date and the body that published it, shown on the listing.

Weather warnings are deliberately absent. An IPMA warning has a start and an end time, so one frozen into a page for days would be either expired or missing; the news hub carries them beside the date they were read.

A scheduled job refreshes these registers and rebuilds the site. If something changed after the build that produced this page, it is not here yet, and every link above goes to the source.

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.

Camera operated by Madeira-Web

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