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Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal. From €42.62, fastest 4h 11m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal runs about 11 times a day, with the first departure around 06:08 and the last around 19:28. One passenger pays between €42.62 and €46.75, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 11m over 485 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for 6 October 2026

€42.62 to €46.75

  • 100%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Santa Cruz de Tenerife

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:08First departure
  • 19:28Last departure
  • 11Services per day
  • 91%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €78.02Mon21
  2. about €79.79Tue22
  3. about €67.40Wed23
  4. about €92.18Thu24
  5. about €77.43Fri25
  6. about €80.97Sat26
  7. about €64.45Sun27
  8. about €54.42Mon28
  9. about €53.24Tue29
  10. about €56.19Wed30
  11. about €64.45Thu1
  12. about €62.68Fri2
  13. about €65.04Sat3
  14. about €49.11Sun4
  15. about €44.98Mon5
  16. about €42.62Tue6
  17. about €45.57Wed7
  18. about €56.19Thu8
  19. about €50.88Fri9
  20. about €52.65Sat10
  21. about €49.11Sun11

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Funchal. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Funchal for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Estação Ferroviária do Monte and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €54.4290 days
  2. €46.1660 days
  3. €44.9845 days
  4. €39.0830 days
  5. €49.1121 days
  6. €49.1114 days
  7. €64.457 days
  8. €67.403 days
  9. €78.021 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €39.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 100 percent. The dearest point is €78.02, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€78.02€39.08137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

485 km

471 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north.

Who lives at each end

211,359105,795

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Santa Cruz de TenerifeSanta Cruz de TenerifeFunchalFunchal
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
77% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 23% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 485 km against 471 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at San Bartolomé, Puerto del Rosario, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

The fare from FNC into Funchal is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Funchal

Settled in advance, so the ride into Funchal costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

Funchal is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Estação Ferroviária do Monte

Most of the points near Estação Ferroviária do Monte open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

The fastest journey from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal takes 4h 11m door to door, of which 1h 2m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 15m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

The cheapest fare from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal is €42.62, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €67.99. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

The cheapest way from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal is by flight, at €42.62 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 4h 12m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

Fares from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €39.08. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 100 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

Sunday is the cheapest day to depart from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal, at €49.11. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 20 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal, at €37.31 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

No operator record names Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal directly. Binter Canarias, TUI fly Belgium publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

77 percent of the services we sell from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal are direct. The rest connect at San Bartolomé, Puerto del Rosario, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with about 58 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal use?

Services from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal by flight leave from Santa Cruz de Tenerife TFS and arrive at Funchal FNC. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Funchal on 20 September 2026: 485 km of route against 471 km in a straight line, 13 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €42.62, and 4h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Funchal a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Funchal and across Portugal

Day trips that leave Funchal in the morning and cover a good part of Portugal by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Santa Cruz de Tenerife reaches 145 places in 31 countries on services we hold, over distances from 59 to 6,598 km. Funchal reaches 62 places in 24 countries, from 471 to 5,658 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Santa Cruz de Tenerife

  • 145Places you can leave for
  • 31Countries
  • 68Operators

Arriving in Funchal

Leaving Funchal

  • 62Places you can leave for
  • 24Countries
  • 42Operators

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