Santo da Serra Golf — Eastern Plateau
Live view from Santo da Serra golf course on the cool eastern plateau, 670 m above sea level. The best reference for mist and low cloud in the east — it is often clouded in here when Machico and Santa Cruz are clear below.
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Santo da Serra Golf is 20°C and clear with a fresh breeze from the N at 28 km/h as of 23:20 local time. The camera is in darkness — sunrise is at 07:25.
- Temperature
- 20°C
- Wind
- 28 km/h N
- Sky
- Clear
- Sunrise
- 07:25
Sunrise 07:25 · Sunset 21:04 (Madeira time). Weather from Open-Meteo, refreshed every 10 minutes; sun times calculated for these exact coordinates.
What you're looking at
The camera looks north-east across the Santo da Serra golf course on the cool eastern plateau, 670 metres above the sea. The frame is fairways, mature stands of pine and eucalyptus and open sky — a landscape closer to northern Europe than to the subtropical coast twenty minutes downhill. When the cloud rolls in from the north-east it arrives here first, which makes the camera an early-warning system for the whole eastern half of the island.
Best time to check this camera
Check it before any east-coast plan, not just golf. It is routinely misted in at this altitude while Machico and Santa Cruz are clear and sunny below, and the reverse almost never happens. Mornings offer the best odds of a clear frame; from mid-afternoon the plateau usually fills with low cloud. Golfers should watch the trees in shot — the wind up here is consistently stronger than the coastal forecast suggests.
Location
Santo da Serra · East, Madeira · OpenStreetMap · Google Maps
Questions about this camera
Why is Santo da Serra often cloudy when the coast is sunny?
It sits at 670 metres on the eastern plateau, right in the path of the moist north-easterly airflow, so cloud forms here well before it reaches the coast. It is common for this camera to be white while the Machico and Santa Cruz feeds a few kilometres away show clear skies.
Is the Santo da Serra webcam useful for golfers?
Yes — it shows the course conditions, visibility and, through the movement of the trees in frame, the wind, which at this altitude is reliably stronger than any coastal forecast implies.
Source
Live feed operated by Portal Netmadeira. Madeira Info curates and geo-locates the stream — credit and traffic go to the operator.