Every Madeira trail, scored live right now
Find the best Madeira trail to hike today.
Levadas tells you where to be and when, so you never burn a morning on the wrong side of the island. Read live at the trail’s own altitude, as high as 1,785m, with official closures always shown and always winning.
- 111 Trails Tracked
- 0 to 100 Live Score
- 20-min Updates
- 16 to 1785 m weather read at trail height
How it works
The whole island, in one number.
Levadas is the hiking app that reads many live sources at once, folds them into a single score for the best trail right now, and tells you the walk and the moment worth your morning. From the Pico do Arieiro sunrise to levada walks like 25 Fontes and Caldeirão Verde, it tells you which one is worth doing today.
Ideal ≥ 61 · Mixed 41 to 60 · Rough ≤ 40. The same banding the app uses.
data sources
refreshed through the day
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Read the whole path
Live weather computed at each trail's own elevation, not one island average, plus status, crowd, warnings and terrain.
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Score every trail
One number for the best trail right now. If a source dies we drop it and re-balance, we never guess.
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Trail and the moment
The best walk for today's conditions, and the window to catch the light.
All 31 data sources feed into your scores. In the app, you see the ones that matter most for your decision.
The whole trip, on one screen.
Live scores, the map, Moments, booking, alerts. Swipe the real screens: it's the whole trip planner, not a weather widget.
- The weather where you actually walk.
Levadas reads wind and cloud at trail altitude along the whole route, not at the beach, so a calm sunny coast never sends you an hour uphill into a wall of fog.
- Start in time, finish in daylight.
Each trail knows when the light drops behind its own ridge and gives you the latest hour to set off, so a sunset hike doesn't finish in the dark.
- Skip the tour-bus crush.
A live crowd-and-booking heatmap shows the quiet hours and the SIMplifica slots, so you skip the tour-bus crush and get the levada closer to yourself.
- Madeira, cut to your legs and your days.
Set your level once and every score, alternative and plan re-tunes to you: compare two trails side by side, then let My Plan order your days.
Be there for the moment.
Madeira stages cloud seas, fog forests and crimson coasts for minutes, not hours. Levadas reads today's sky, light and sea and gives each moment a live match score, then tells you the exact window to catch it.
Live match %: each moment is scored against what it needs (sky clarity, sun angle, swell), so you chase the ones actually firing right now.
Bucket list: save the moments and trails you want, and My Plan sequences them into the best order for your days, each matched to its forecast.
More than 30 unique moments to experience across Madeira
See today's live match
Why not just use a hiking app?
Most tools tell you a trail exists. Levadas tells you whether today is the day to walk it, and which one.
Built only for Madeira. That is the point, not a limitation.
For regulated trails
Booking a regulated trail?
Madeira's busiest trails need an advance ticket from SIMplifica, the official IFCN booking system. Reserve your slot there, then use Levadas to pick the day and hour when the weather and crowds line up.
How SIMplifica and Levadas work togetherThe questions you actually ask on holiday.
Levadas matches each day of your trip to the live conditions and your own pace, so you walk the right trail at the hour it is best, instead of guessing from a guidebook.
How many Madeira trails does Levadas cover?
111 trails tracked: 42 official IFCN routes plus 69 community and municipal walks. Far more than any printed guidebook, and each one carries live conditions, not a static description.
Where should I hike in Madeira right now?
One ranked list by live score, the best trail for the conditions on top, updated through the day.
Which trail will have sun and clear views?
We read cloud cover along the route, so you chase the gaps instead of walking into a grey-out.
What if it rains?
Madeira makes its own weather, so one coast can pour while the other stays dry. We read the live forecast along each route and send you to the trail that is holding up, instead of writing the day off.
Which one won’t be packed?
A live crowd heat map, hour by hour, flags the busy trails and the tour-bus windows before you commit.
Where do I park?
Trailhead parking and access sit on every trail page, so you’re not circling a full car park.
What’s the best alternative if PR1 is full?
One tap shows nearby trails that fit today’s conditions, ranked the same way.
What about the unofficial trails, are they covered?
Yes, and we keep an eye on them. Official routes show IFCN closures and warnings. For the community trails we scan council pages and local news for hazards like landslides or damaged sections, so a problem doesn’t stay hidden just because the trail isn’t on the official list. Treat it as a heads up, not an official safety clearance.
Can I save trails and build a plan?
Save trails and moments to your bucket list, and My Plan sequences them into the best order for your days, each matched to its live forecast.
Plan your next Madeira hike
You get a handful of mornings here. Spend them on the right trail.
Open Levadas, find the best Madeira trail for right now, and catch the moment worth the early start. One-time pass, no subscription: enter the 6-digit code we email you and you’re in.
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