Whale watching in Madeira, November 2024

November is no longer the best season for whalewatching in Madeira though with sea water warming up we have been getting more cetacean species passing by in the winter...

Week 47: From the 25th of November to the 1st of December 2024

Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 46: From the 18th to the 24th of November 2024

Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis

Week 45: From the 11th to the 17th of November 2024

Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 44: From the 4th to the 10th of November 2024

Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba