Where a car takes you from Funchal
These are the day trips from Funchal on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Câmara de Lobos Câmara de Lobos, settled after 1420, still works Madeira's scabbard-fish fleet from a bay of painted boats nine kilometres west of Funchal city
- Santana Santana on Madeira's north coast keeps the thatched triangular casinhas and sits inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of upland fruit and chestnut
- Porto Moniz Porto Moniz sits at Madeira's northwest corner, where volcanic rock forms natural sea pools and a working fishing harbour still lands the catch
- Machico Machico is where Zarco landed in July 1419, making it Madeira's historical birthplace, a bay town of 20,000 people east of Funchal on the VR1
Booking a car in Funchal
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Dollar, Enterprise, Firefly, Hertz, Keddy, Sixt, Surprice
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.