N-Ways
N-Ways in Cabo Verde
Find any place in Cabo Verde.
Praia, Mindelo, Sal or Fogo: search a place or a business and N-Ways takes you to the door, and across the water. The app speaks Portuguese in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), menus, voice and voice commands included, and English or French if you prefer.
- Capital
- Praia On Santiago island
- Money
- Esc Cape Verdean escudo
- Clock
- CVT UTC−1, all year, 2 hours behind Nigeria
- Drives on the
- Right
- Language
- Portuguese Kriolu day to day
- Between islands
- Ferries CV Interilhas
What works in Cabo Verde
Ten islands, one map.
N-Ways speaks Portuguese when your account starts in Cabo Verde or your phone is set to Portuguese. You can switch to English or French in Profile. Here's what you get on the islands' roads and between them.
Search by name, home code or Plus Code
Places, streets and businesses in all 22 municipalities. Search by the name of the place, type a home code such as Palmarejo 12 34 to reach a gate, or a Plus Code for any spot.
Em português
Spoken directions, lane arrows and road signs in Portuguese, voice commands such as “Polícia à frente”, and the municipality on the map, like “Praia · Cabo Verde”.
Ferries in Directions
Choose Boat for the CV Interilhas ferries, with the walk to the port, the crossing and the way on. Times come from the published timetable.
Fair fares in escudos
What a taxi, an aluguer minibus or a city bus should cost, as a rough guide. A city bus ticket is 43 Esc in Praia and 42 Esc in Mindelo.
Fuel at the capped price
Every trip shows its litres and what they cost at the maximum price ARME sets each month: 197.20 Esc a litre of petrol in October 2026.
Rights and crash alerts
The Provedor de Justiça's citizens' line, 800 11 22, for complaints about the police or officials, and crash alerts that offer the ambulance on 130, the fire service on 131 and the police on 132.
Main towns
From Santo Antão in the north to Brava in the south. Search any of them, or a street or business inside.
- Praia Santiago
- Mindelo São Vicente
- Espargos Sal
- Santa Maria Sal
- Sal Rei Boa Vista
- Assomada Santiago
- Tarrafal Santiago
- São Filipe Fogo
- Porto Novo Santo Antão
- Ribeira Brava São Nicolau
- Vila do Maio Maio
- Nova Sintra Brava
Checked 18 October 2026. Sources: Languages of Cape Verde, ARME (fuel), Expresso das Ilhas (bus tickets), Provedor de Justiça, Cabo Verde Airports (emergency numbers), governo.cv (the ten islands), IANA time zones.
Ferries between the islands
The next island is a boat away.
CV Interilhas runs every scheduled passenger ferry between the islands. N-Ways plans the crossing with its times and fares. Visitors pay the non-national fare.
- Mindelo–Porto Novo: two round trips a day, about an hour each way; 1,500 Esc one way (950 for Cape Verdeans), 3,465 Esc for a car.
- Praia–Fogo–Brava: Monday, Thursday and Saturday from Praia at 07:00; 4,450 Esc from Santiago to Fogo or Brava.
- Praia–Maio: Wednesday at 07:00, Friday and Sunday at 17:00; 2,300 Esc.
- Mindelo to Praia via São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista: twice a week, overnight on the long legs, and suspended in rough seas.
Checked 18 October 2026. Sources: CV Interilhas timetable, CV Interilhas fares, CV Interilhas vehicle fares.
Home codes
A home code for every home, on every island.
The name of your bairro and a short number, unique in the whole country: Palmarejo 12 34 leads a courier, a taxi or an ambulance to your gate. Codes start provisional and are confirmed by the people who live there.
Open N-Ways at home, tap Get my code, and share it in one tap.
Get my code Read the research paper
For developers: look codes up, find the code at a point or decode them with the home codes API guide. No key is needed.
Host it yourself: every code, the areas, the engine and a ready-made server are open at github.com/n-ways/open-addresses-cabo-verde, free to run on your own servers under their licences (data ODbL 1.0, engine Apache 2.0). Credit when you use it: N-Ways Addressing for Cabo Verde, © N-WAYS LIMITED (nways.ng)
Praia · SantiagoWhat N-Ways does in Cabo Verde
Every screen here is the real app in Cabo Verde. Swipe through each row.
Find what’s near
Pharmacies around Praia, with their opening hours.
Right to the door
The last metres on foot, to the entrance of Mercado Municipal.
Turn-by-turn in Praia
Every turn called with the street’s own name, on Praia’s roads.
Potholes, lane by lane
Know which lane the pothole is in before you reach it, across Praia.
Police ahead
Other drivers’ reports warn you before a checkpoint in Praia.
Your rights in Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde’s emergency numbers and where to report misconduct, one tap away.
Ask while you drive
“How far to Cidade Velha?” Tap the mic and ask, in English or French.
Maps without data
Save the Praia map area once and it works with no signal.
What it fixes for you, free.
The everyday problems of getting around, and what N-Ways does about each. No subscription, no account needed.
“Call me when you reach the junction.”
Addresses that don’t exist on any map. Search a postcode, a digital address or a landmark, and N-Ways walks you to the door.
See howData finished halfway there.
Save the map for offline use and keep going with no signal. It tidies itself when storage is short.
See how
Works with Apple CarPlay.
Connect your iPhone and N-Ways opens on your car’s screen: the same map and voice as on the phone, with big buttons made for driving. A trip you started on the phone carries on in the car.
The next turn onto Ikorodu Road with its green road sign, fuel for the trip in litres and the arrival time.
The map turns dark when your car switches to night.
Each route’s time and distance before you set off, then Go.
Bad road ahead, in time to slow down.
Places, businesses and postcodes, picked from a list.
Look around, then one tap brings the map back to the car.
Shown on a drive in Lagos.
- Turn by turn
- The distance, the road’s name and its green sign, and on iOS 18 the lane to be in.
- Spoken directions
- Through the car’s speakers, turning your music down while it talks.
- Warned in time
- Potholes, bad road, crashes, traffic lights, tolls and borders ahead. “Still there?” takes one tap.
- Find your way there
- Places, businesses and addresses, or Home, Work and your recent trips.
- Pick your route
- Time and distance for each before you go, and a faster way offered on the road.
- Report from the wheel
- Crash, police, traffic, roadworks, hazard or closure, from six big buttons.
Part of the N-Ways app for iPhone. You need an iPhone and a car with CarPlay.
Also on iPhone, in testing: your next turn, the road sign and your lane on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Your trips, your data.
Your trips stay yours
We don’t sell where you go, and ads never get your trip history.
No account needed
Search and drive without signing in. Sign in only to keep places and points on another phone.
Recordings stay on your phone
A checkpoint video is never uploaded unless you choose to back it up.
Delete it all
Remove your account and everything in it at any time. Privacy policy
Building an app for Cabo Verde?
The N-Ways Maps Platform: the maps, address search and routes behind the app, as APIs and SDKs for the web, Android and iOS. Free calls every month, then prices in your own currency.
Your business, on the road to it.
A short billboard shows to drivers heading your way, only when they’re stopped or slow, never near a turn. Pay for the days you choose.
Questions about N-Ways in Cabo Verde
How do I find an address in Praia or Mindelo?
Search by the name of the place, street or business, or type a Plus Code to find any spot. N-Ways covers all 22 municipalities, from Santo Antão in the north to Brava in the south.
Does N-Ways speak Portuguese in Cabo Verde?
Yes: menus, spoken directions and voice commands such as “Polícia à frente”. It speaks Portuguese when your account starts in Cabo Verde or your phone is set to Portuguese, and you can switch to English or French in Profile.
How do I get from Mindelo to Santo Antão?
CV Interilhas runs two round trips a day from Mindelo to Porto Novo, about an hour each way: 1,500 Esc one way (950 for Cape Verdeans) and 3,465 Esc for a car. Choose Boat in Directions and N-Ways plans the walk to the port, the crossing and the way on.
How do I get from Praia to Fogo or Brava?
The CV Interilhas ferry leaves Praia on Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 07:00, and costs 4,450 Esc from Santiago to Fogo or Brava. Visitors pay the non-national fare.
Is there a ferry from Praia to Maio?
Yes: on Wednesday at 07:00, and on Friday and Sunday at 17:00, for 2,300 Esc. N-Ways’s times come from the published CV Interilhas timetable.
How much is a bus or taxi in Praia?
A city bus ticket is 43 Esc in Praia and 42 Esc in Mindelo. N-Ways shows what a taxi, an aluguer minibus or a city bus should cost, as a rough guide, and fuel at the capped price: 197.20 Esc a litre of petrol in October 2026.
What number do I call after a crash in Cabo Verde?
N-Ways’s crash alerts offer the ambulance on 130, the fire service on 131 and the police on 132. For complaints about the police or officials, the Provedor de Justiça’s citizens’ line is 800 11 22.
Is there a free GPS app that works offline in Cabo Verde?
N-Ways is free, and it can save a city for when there’s no signal; maps you stop using tidy themselves away when your phone runs low on space. The map works in your browser at map.nways.ng.
Where are you going in Cabo Verde today?
Type a place or a business. N-Ways does the rest, in Portuguese, English or French.