Funchal bus routes

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Funchal's city buses are the cheapest way up the hills that ring the bay, and the timetables are easier to read route by route. Horários do Funchal runs sixty city routes, and most start in the centre, from the seafront around the Avenida do Mar, the Praça do Povo and the Alfândega, and climb to the parishes above: Monte, the Botanical Garden, Santo António, São Roque, Santa Luzia and São Gonçalo, with route 181 going on to Curral das Freiras in the Nuns Valley.

The finder narrows the routes by where they go, the day they run and a stop you type, and the map shows the routes it finds. Each route has its own page with every stop in order, the times by day type, the notes and holiday rules, and the places within a few minutes' walk of its stops. A trip costs €2.05 on board or €1.45 on a pre-paid GIRO card on the 2026 tariff.

Fares

One ticket covers any urban route: €2.05 bought on board, or €1.45 a trip on a pre-paid GIRO card, on the 2026 tariff. Route 181 to Curral das Freiras has its own municipal and intermunicipal fares.

The routes, stops and times come from Horários do Funchal's timetables, the stop positions and road lines from OpenStreetMap, and the fares from the tariff.