Madeira Airport Car Rental is a car rental search for Madeira. We do not own cars or take payment: the search on this site is run by our booking partner, which lists cars from rental companies on the island and takes the booking, and every car it lists can be handed over at the airport. The written pages follow a rental from collection at the airport to the return.
How does a booking work?
You choose the pick-up place, the drop-off place and the dates, then a car. Booking and payment run through our booking partner and the rental company that owns the car. A part of the price, 15 to 20% of the rental cost, is paid online to confirm the booking; the rest is paid when you collect the car, together with the deposit and Madeira's regional fee. The voucher sent after payment holds the pick-up place and time and the booking details.
Each rental company sets its own conditions car by car: the deposit, the card it accepts, the excess, the minimum age, the mileage and whether the car cancels free. The search shows them before you pay, and the rental conditions for Portugal that apply to every car are reproduced on the rental terms page.
Where do the facts on this site come from?
The rental conditions come from the booking partner's published conditions for Portugal, and where cars are handed over, which cars can be left in another town and what each car's page states come from the booking partner's own listings for dates from October 2026 to July 2027. Airport facts come from ANA, which runs Madeira Airport, NAV Portugal, which publishes its wind limits, the regional statistics office for passenger numbers, the regional transport plan and Guinness World Records for the runway, and the regional timetable for the Aerobus.
Road rules come from Portugal's highway code as published by the road safety authority, ANSR, and from gov.uk for UK licences; the regional fee from the decree and order the regional government published for it; road closures and the summit car park from the regional government and IFCN; places and roads from Visit Madeira; parking in Funchal from Frente MarFunchal and the city council. Drive times are routed without traffic from the airport or from the town a page starts in, so traffic and weather add to them.
How can I get in touch?
By email, through the contact page. We answer questions about the website and about renting a car on Madeira; for a car already booked, the voucher and the rental company hold the details of the handover.