Whalewatching sightings around Madeira, September 2026

September is usually a good month for some big cetaceans to pass by Madeira though with ocean temperature higher than normal we never know what we will get...

Week 39: From the 21st to the 27th of September 2026

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

Week 38: From the 14th to the 20th of September 2026

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

Week 37: From the 7th to the 13th of September 2026

Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 36: From the 31st of August to the 6th of September 2026

Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis