Funchal - General Info
Description:
Located on the southern coast of Madeira, Funchal is a popular port of call for cruise ships. It lies in a bowl with a dramatic mountain backdrop. It has many spectacular festivals, the foremost of which is that held on New Year’s Eve and there are lots of sights and activity. A fun place to spend a couple of nights, although likely not that peaceful!
Entrance Notes and Cautions:
Record rainfall from Storm Oscar in June 2023 brought rocks, silt and debris to the entrance of the marina in Funchal, Madeira and blocked entry to and exit from the marina. Anyone intending to arrive here should first check conditions with the marina.
See the News section for more information.
Position:
32° 38.63’N, 16° 54.33’W (harbor entrance)
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There is now 8 visitor berths available in the new harbour run by Porto Funchal. If you are at Porto Santo, they can assist in booking a berth.
We visited Funchal Marina in March 2016. It was Easter, so no marina staff were at the marina and we had to look for a berth ourselves. We could not find a berth for 15m length. We had just 12kn of wind, but I wouldn’t have liked to try to turn the boat with more wind than that because of lack of space. We asked a boat that had been in the marina a few days if they knew of berths for our size of boat. They didn’t know of berths that size. The reception pontoon looked very bad and short. Even with a 13m boat, I wouldn’t have wanted to go alongside there. The reception pontoon was also very low.
We decided to go to Qunita do Lorde Marina instead. There they had pontoons even for at least 20m boats and no lack of space to turn out boat or lack of berthing space in March.