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View of São Lourenço (Ponta do Castelo) from Porto da Cruz. Madeira, Portugal
Porto da Cruz. Photo: Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Porto da Cruz

Surf and mountain biking town · Portugal

Score a trip to Porto da Cruz

Surf and mountain biking, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 6 places

6 places to stay within 2 km.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 6 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 9 places in 2 sports

Surf · this week

  • Faja da Areia · about 35 min by car · stays in São Vicente

    60 out of 100
  • Ponta Delgada · about 30 min by car · stays in São Vicente

    60 out of 100
  • Faial · about 5 min by car · stays in Faial

    56 out of 100
  • Porto da cruz · about 5 min by car

    50 out of 100
  • Pizo · about 35 min by car · stays in Funchal

    32 out of 100
  • Praia Formosa · about 35 min by car · stays in Funchal

    28 out of 100
  • Cais do funchal · about 30 min by car · stays in Funchal · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Machico · about 15 min by car · stays in Machico · Not for intermediates

    –, no score

Mountain biking · this week

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Porto da Cruz.

Places to eat

6 near Porto da Cruz

Places to eat near Porto da Cruz

  • Restaurante Praça do EngenhoSeafood · 0.1 km from the centre
  • A PipaPortuguese · 0.1 km from the centre
  • Penha D'AveBrazilian · 0.1 km from the centre
  • Baia do Bago0.1 km from the centre
  • Praça Velha0.1 km from the centre
  • Restaurante Praia da Alagoa0.2 km from the centre

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Porto da Cruz.

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Photos of Porto da Cruz

View of São Lourenço from Porto da Cruz. Madeira, Portugal
Photo: Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Engenhos do Norte, Old Rum Distillery
Photo: Michael Gaylard from Horsham, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Banana plantation in Porto da Cruz, Machico, Madeira, Portugal, 2023 May
Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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About Porto da Cruz

where it is, what is near

Porto da Cruz is a town in Madeira, Portugal.

From Porto da Cruz you can reach 8 surf spots and 1 mountain bike area.

The nearest is Porto da cruz, a surf spot 0.8 km from the centre.

Overture lists 6 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (FNC), 10 km away.

In Madeira · Portugal

  • 6 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (FNC), 10 km, Porto Santo Airport (PXO), 56 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).