Madeira Whale Watching

Whalewatching in Madeira, September 2022

September tends to be a good month for whale watching in Madeira as part of the migration season... Let's see which sea mammals species will swim around Madeira coast:

Week 39: From the 26th of September to the 2nd of October2022

Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 38: From the 19th to the 25th of September 2022

Pygmy killer whale Feresa attenuata
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

Week 37: From the 12th to the 18th of September 2022

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

A sperm whale lifts its dark, notched tail flukes above the water.
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus · Photograph by Wind Birds

Week 36: From the 5th to the 11th of September 2022

Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba

Week 35: From the 29th of August to the 4th of September 2022

Common Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba