The harbour
The working fishing port is the heart of the town.
North coast fishing town · via Rabo de Peixe
How to get to Rabo de Peixe by bus
AzoresBus prints 9 stops in Rabo de Peixe on lines 102, 110 and N05 (line PDFs, edition effective 1 September 2026). Each line prints separate weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday columns; they are shown separately on every line page.
By bus
Getting to Rabo de Peixe
AzoresBus prints 9 stops in Rabo de Peixe on lines 102, 110 and N05 (line PDFs, edition effective 1 September 2026). Each line prints separate weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday columns; they are shown separately on every line page.
- Line 102 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe): 9 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Wednesday, Friday.
- Line 110 Ponta Delgada – Furnas: 8 printed stops here; columns Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
- Line N05 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande: 9 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
Source: AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 102 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 110 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Furnas () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line N05 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeira Grande () · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Article intros for São Miguel and Terceira places
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Worth your time
What Rabo de Peixe does best
Rabo de Peixe is the largest fishing community on the north coast, just west of Ribeira Grande. The main Ribeira Grande line is routed through it, and the Furnas line along the north coast and the night line print stops here as well.
Good to know
- Line 102 is labelled "via Rabo de Peixe"; line 103 takes the other road via Pico do Fogo and does not stop here.
- Rabo de Peixe (Portuguese for "fish tail") is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 8,866, in an area of 16.96 km2. (Wikipedia, "Rabo de Peixe", read 18 September 2026.)
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From the current AzoresBus line PDFs (edition effective 1 September 2026). 9 stops printed under "Rabo de Peixe"; the day-type columns listed are the ones on which at least one of those stops has a printed time.
- 102 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe) 9 printed stops here: Rabo de Peixe (Cemitério) · Rabo de Peixe (Lg. S. Sebastião) · Rabo de Peixe (R. de Belém) · Rabo de Peixe (R. Nova da Fonte) · and 5 more
- Columns serving Rabo de Peixe
- Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays · Wednesday · Friday
- Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Weekdays
- – , 14 trips
- Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Wednesday
- – , 1 trip
- 110 Ponta Delgada – Furnas 8 printed stops here: Rabo de Peixe (Lg. S. Sebastião) · Rabo de Peixe (R. de Belém) · Rabo de Peixe (R. Nova da Fonte) · Rabo de Peixe (N. Sra. Rosário) · and 4 more
- Columns serving Rabo de Peixe
- Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays
- Ponta Delgada → Furnas · Weekdays
- – , 2 trips
- Ponta Delgada → Furnas · Saturdays
- – , 2 trips
- N05 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande 9 printed stops here: Rabo de Peixe (Cemitério) · Rabo de Peixe (Lg. S. Sebastião) · Rabo de Peixe (R. de Belém) · Rabo de Peixe (R. Nova da Fonte) · and 5 more
- Columns serving Rabo de Peixe
- Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays
- Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Weekdays
- – , 2 trips
- Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Saturdays
- – , 2 trips
AzoresBus publishes no stop coordinates, and no printed stop name here matched an OpenStreetMap node exactly on the read date, so no coordinates are shown rather than guessed.