Mallorca in September
Son Marroig — September travel guide
In September, the sea holds its summer warmth while the island gradually becomes quieter. If you’re not tied to school holidays, it offers a useful balance of warm water and fewer people.
Your month at a glance
What Mallorca feels like in September
Start → end of month
Sunrise07:18 → 07:45
Sunset20:21 → 19:34
Palma · local time 2026
The sea retains its warmth as the air slowly becomes milder. A lovely combination for swimming and exploring.
Mix beach days with outings to suit the weather and your mood.
Rounded monthly averages: air temperatures and sunshine for Palma, sea temperatures around Mallorca. Individual days and locations vary.
The figures and their sources →Twelve months, twelve different islands
2 further places do not yet have monthly ratings.
Worth a visit
The quietest places first
Ariany
Mallorca’s youngest municipality, Ariany only separated from Petra in 1982, after two unsuccessful attempts. This ridge-top village in the Pla has a chu…
Ermita de Bonany
A pilgrimage sanctuary on the Puig de Bonany above Petra, 317 metres above sea level. Hermits lived here until 1990. On clear days, the terrace looks ac…
Ermita de Crestatx
A small pilgrimage chapel among pines near Sa Pobla, on the site of an older settlement. A paved path leads up to the church, with tables in the shade f…
Es Capdellà
A quiet village inland from the coast, just ten minutes from Peguera but with a very different feel: stone houses, a shop and a church square, with the…
Església de Son Serra
A church among the pines, beside the old Son Serra estate with its towers and farm buildings. A glimpse of the rural countryside behind Son Serra de Mar…
Galilea
One of Mallorca’s highest villages, 460 metres above the sea. Two hundred residents, a white church with a red tower roof, a café on the square and, in…
Sant Miquel de Campanet
One of Mallorca's oldest churches, standing alone among the fields outside Campanet. Built on the site of a mosque after the conquest of 1229, it served…
Santuari de Santa Llúcia
A pilgrimage church on a rocky ledge above Mancor de la Vall, documented since 1275. The terrace looks across much of inland Mallorca, and even in summe…
Selva
A village at the foot of the Tramuntana on the road to Lluc. Sant Llorenç church stands above a broad outdoor staircase lined with cypresses — the lovel…
Son Carrió
Sant Miquel on 29 September is the village's second festival.
Alcanada
A quieter alternative to Port d’Alcúdia, 3 km to the east. Low villas sit among pines beside a pebbly, sandy shore without rows of sunbeds. Just offshor…
Artà
A small north-eastern town beneath a fortified hilltop sanctuary, surrounded by some of Mallorca’s least developed countryside. Nearby Ses Païsses is on…
Bunyola
A village at the foot of the Tramuntana with a lovely old railway station. The wooden Sóller train stops here before disappearing into the long tunnel b…
Cala Brafi
A small, undeveloped bay with no kiosk or road to the sand. A rough path between dry-stone walls leads past a low wall to cross, the remains of a fisher…
Cala Moltó
A small cove beyond Cala Agulla, reached by a ten-minute walk over rocky ground. There is a narrow strip of sand between the rocks, sometimes boats offs…
Capocorb Vell
A Talayotic settlement beside the south-coast road, with five massive dry-stone towers and the outlines of twenty-eight houses. Follow the paths between…
Castell de Santueri
A rocky hilltop fortress 408 metres above sea level near Felanitx, its walls rising directly from the cliff edge. Explore the ruins and cistern, then lo…
Coves de Campanet
A quieter cave visit near Campanet, with limestone formations rather than a boat ride or colourful show. Allow around forty minutes underground, then en…
Ermita de la Victòria
Long evenings overlooking the bay.
Esporles
A Tramuntana town whose main street was built above a stream: a long, tree-lined space beneath plane trees, with green-shuttered houses on either side.…
Felanitx
Grape harvest in the surrounding countryside.
Monestir de Miramar
Ramon Llull founded a school for Eastern languages here in 1276. Six hundred years later, Archduke Ludwig Salvator bought the estate and began helping p…
Muro
Behind Platja de Muro lies the town that gave the beach its name, often overlooked by holidaymakers. It has a late-Gothic church with a bridge to its se…
Necròpolis de Son Real
Calm seas make it possible to combine the coastal walk with a swim.
Orient
Forty residents in a high Tramuntana valley, reached by a road with seventeen hairpins. Rough-stone houses, ivy-covered façades and no shops, with walki…
El Terreno & Bellver
On the hillside west of the harbour, beneath Castell de Bellver and a pine forest in the middle of the city. Mallorca's nightlife centre in the 1960s, f…
Es Jonquet
Palma's smallest and most distinctive neighbourhood: a rocky spur above the harbour with five surviving windmills and a handful of low fishermen's house…
Platja des Carbó
The sea retains summer warmth and the walk becomes more comfortable.
Pollentia
The remains of an important Roman town just outside Alcúdia. An urban centre developed here after the conquest of 123 BC. The forum, theatre and Sa Port…
Puigpunyent
A village below Puig de Galatzó, twenty minutes from Palma yet rarely visited. Plane trees overhang the road, the church overlooks a square, old olive p…
Raixa
A country estate near Bunyola, transformed by an 18th-century cardinal into an Italian-style villa. A terraced staircase, stone lions and cypresses fill…
S'Alqueria Blanca
A quiet village between Santanyí and the coves that most people drive straight through. An unusually large church, a few sandstone lanes and the road up…
S'Estanyol de Migjorn
A small coastal settlement between Sa Ràpita and Palma bay, without hotels or a sandy beach. There is a marina, holiday homes, a shingle cove and a harb…
Salines d'Es Trenc
Explore the salt pans after the summer heat; check visiting arrangements beforehand.
Santuari de Sant Salvador (Artà)
A fortress with a church inside, high above Artà. Walls with nine towers surround a courtyard of palms, an old well and the pilgrimage church. The climb…
Santuari de Gràcia
The middle of the three religious houses on Puig de Randa, built beneath an overhanging cliff that extends right above the roof. Cypresses fill the fore…
Sineu
In the heart of Mallorca, Sineu hosts one of the island's oldest markets every Wednesday, under a royal charter dating from 1306. Its livestock section…
Son Corró
Son Corró is a small prehistoric sanctuary near Costitx. Six re-erected stone columns stand among low walls. The famous bronze bull heads of Costitx wer…
Son Serra de Marina
A planned village of grid-pattern streets, no hotels and houses no higher than two storeys. In front lies a long, natural beach backed by protected dune…
Andratx
The main town of the south-west was built inland from its harbour to keep it safer from corsair raids. Sandstone houses climb the hillside towards a for…
Banyalbufar
Quieter from mid-September; the sea is warmer than in June.
Banys Àrabs
An 11th-century brick chamber in an old-town garden, with twelve columns, horseshoe arches and a dome pierced by round skylights. The Arab Baths are amo…
Cabrera
The sea retains its summer warmth. Choose calm conditions for snorkelling.
Cala Figuera
The harbour is usually quieter to explore than in August.
Cala Fornells
The sea holds its summer warmth. Snorkelling visibility depends on wind and waves.
Cala Millor
The sea holds its summer warmth and there is usually more room on the sand.
Cala Mondragó
Three beaches within a natural park — S'Amarador, Ses Fonts de n'Alís and small Caló des Borgit. Pale sand lies between pines and rocks, reached by walk…
Cala Pi
The sea holds its summer warmth, with usually more room on the sand.
Camp de Mar
The sea holds its summer warmth and the resort becomes quieter.
Can Pastilla
The sea retains its summer warmth, with more room on the beach.
Canyamel
A sandy bay backed by pine-covered slopes, a handful of hotels and a golf course. Canyamel is one of the quieter beach resorts in the north-east, with t…
Capdepera
Founded by royal order in 1300, Capdepera rises beneath a large medieval fortress. Explore the stone lanes and walk the castle walls; in May, the Mercat…
Castell de Capdepera
Above Capdepera stands a former walled settlement, with walkable defensive walls, the Miquel Nunis tower and a medieval chapel. Its residents gradually…
Colònia de Sant Jordi
The sea retains its summer warmth, with more room on the beach.
Colònia de Sant Pere
Founded in 1880, this small coastal town has a harbour, a short beach and a promenade with a handful of restaurants, backed by the mountains of Artà. A…
Coves d'Artà
A limestone cave with a huge opening above the sea near Canyamel. Inside, a guided route climbs and descends steps through lofty chambers filled with ro…
Coves dels Hams
The caves near Porto Cristo take their name from their hook-shaped formations. Smaller than the nearby Coves del Drac, they combine unusual limestone sh…
Deià
The sea retains summer warmth, while visitor numbers begin to ease.
El Toro
A residential neighbourhood above a south-western bay, beside Port Adriano, the marina redesigned by Philippe Starck. A small sandy beach sits between t…
Es Baluard
Palma’s galleries and museums open together in the evening for September’s Nit de l’Art.
Es Trenc
The sea still holds its summer warmth, with far fewer visitors than in August.
Estellencs
Combine the walk to the cove with a swim when conditions allow.
Far des Cap de ses Salines
Mallorca’s southernmost point has a lighthouse built in 1863, flat coastal rocks and open sea, with the uninhabited island of Cabrera on the horizon. Th…
Fornalutx
The island’s steepest village, built from the rock it stands on. Stepped lanes replace streets, painted tiles line the eaves and terraces climb towards…
Gordiola
A family glassworks dating back to 1719, beside the road to Manacor in a castle-like building. Watch glassblowers at work downstairs, then explore the c…
Gorg Blau
Mallorca’s largest reservoir sits in the heart of the Tramuntana beside the MA-10. Swimming is forbidden, there’s no café or proper car park, but the ro…
Jardins d'Alfàbia
At the foot of the Sóller pass, this garden has irrigation rooted in Moorish times. Palm groves, a pergola with hidden water jets and a manor house make…
La Seu
Palma’s cathedral was begun in 1230 and built over several centuries. Its Gothic buttresses rise above the water, with one of the world’s largest rose w…
Mirador de Ricardo Roca
The first major viewpoint on the west-coast road after Andratx. Stone steps climb from beside a road tunnel to a rocky lookout with coastal views in bot…
Mirador Es Pontàs
A freestanding rock arch in the sea, one of the south-east coast’s best-known views. The viewpoint lies between Cala Santanyí and Cala Llombards, costs…
Peguera
The sea retains its summer warmth, while the resort becomes noticeably quieter.
Palau de l'Almudaina
The royal palace beside Palma cathedral began as a Moorish alcázar, later converted into a residence for Mallorca’s kings by Jaume II. Reopened on 29 Ju…
Palau March
The March family's city palace between the cathedral and the Almudaina: a terrace filled with 20th-century sculpture, historic living rooms and an 18th-…
Palma
The city comes back to life and the sea retains its summer warmth. A good time for Es Molinar and Cala Major.
Palma Aquarium
A large aquarium on Playa de Palma, with Europe's deepest shark tank. Open all year, it is a reliable option for a rainy day with children.
Casc Antic
Palma's old town between the cathedral, Plaça Major and the old city walls: a Moorish street plan, major Gothic buildings, Renaissance courtyards and Ar…
Hafen von Palma
The Balearics' largest harbour sits in the city, in front of the old town. Cargo quays, cruise terminals, marinas and fishing boats share the waterfront…
La Llotja & Es Puig de Sant Pere
The strip between old town and harbour, named after the Gothic merchants' exchange Sa Llotja, one of Mallorca's finest secular buildings. Museums and qu…
Santa Catalina
Businesses reopen as the city returns from its holidays.
Palmanova
The sea retains its summer warmth as the resort becomes less crowded.
Passeig del Born
September's Nit de l'Art turns the Born into an exhibition space.
Platja de Muro
A long sandy stretch of the Bay of Alcúdia, with protected dunes and pines at Es Comú rather than a continuous hotel frontage. S'Albufera lies behind it…
Pollença
A small town at the northern end of the Tramuntana, set inland because the sea brought pirates for centuries. Climb 365 cypress-lined steps to the Calva…
Port d'Andratx
An upmarket natural harbour in a deep, sheltered bay, with fishing boats on one side, yachts on the other and villas covering the surrounding hillsides.
Port de Sóller
The sea retains its summer warmth and the resort becomes noticeably quieter.
Porto Petro
A kilometre and a half from Cala d'Or, but a different world — a natural harbour where fishermen still unload their catch, small sandy coves and a quiet…
Portocolom
One of Mallorca's largest natural harbours, with a quieter atmosphere than many east-coast resorts. Fishing boats line up outside colourful boathouses,…
Puerto Portals
Explore the waterfront in the evening as the summer heat eases.
Sa Ràpita
A marina on the flat south coast, with an old watchtower and a beach strewn with seagrass rather than loungers. From here, you can walk along the shore…
Sant Elm
Mallorca's westernmost village, a small seaside resort at the end of the road. The uninhabited island of Dragonera lies opposite. Beyond here, there is…
Santa Ponça
The sea retains its summer warmth and the resort is quieter.
Santanyí
A town built from its own stone. Golden marès quarried locally has been used across Mallorca. There is a medieval town gate, a Baroque organ brought fro…
Santuari de Cura
A monastery estate on the highest point of the Pla, 548 metres above the plain. Ramon Llull retreated here in the 13th century. Today, there is a cloist…
Santuari de Sant Salvador
A pilgrimage church has stood here since 1348, 509 metres above Felanitx at the southern end of the Serra de Llevant. Today there are guest rooms, a res…
Santuari de Lluc
Mallorca's spiritual centre, a sanctuary at 525 metres in the heart of the Tramuntana, with guest rooms, a children's choir and a Rosary Way whose desig…
Ses Covetes
A small coastal settlement at the western end of Es Trenc, giving access to the natural beach. The unfinished apartment blocks were demolished in 2013.
Sóller
An orange-growing town in a mountain-ringed valley, once easier to reach by sea than overland. Citrus trading brought wealth, French-influenced houses a…
Son Marroig
Archduke Ludwig Salvator's country estate above the west coast, with a white marble pavilion on the edge — the best-known viewpoint between Valldemossa…
Torre des Verger
A round 16th-century watchtower on an isolated rocky outcrop above the west coast. Climb the stone steps to the roof for one of the Ma-10's finest coast…
Binissalem
Festa des Vermar, the grape-harvest festival, takes place in late September.
Cala Agulla
The sea remains warm from summer; it usually becomes quieter from mid-month.
Cala d'Or
A resort planned in the 1930s by an Ibizan who brought the style of his home island with him. Low white buildings surround turquoise coves and a marina,…
Cala de Sant Vicenç
The sea holds its summer warmth, with fewer visitors towards the end of the month.
Cala d'en Marçal
Golden sand, gently shelving water and a nearby bus stop make Cala d'en Marçal Portocolom's convenient family beach. It is easy to enjoy — and understan…
Cala Mesquida
A broad stretch of pale sand with protected dunes behind it and a wooden boardwalk crossing them. Cala Mesquida faces north, so waves and currents can b…
Cala Ratjada
The sea holds its summer warmth; the resort usually becomes quieter from mid-month.
Cala Santanyí
Pale sand and gently shelving water in a rocky-sided bay, with hotels close behind. Cala Santanyí is a practical family beach and a useful starting poin…
Can Picafort
A small fishing settlement first recorded in 1860 has become a busy holiday resort. Come for the beach, the promenade and everything within walking dist…
Castell de Bellver
A striking circular Gothic castle, built above Palma between 1300 and 1311. Inside is a two-storey round courtyard; outside are views over the city, har…
Mirador Es Colomer
Still popular, but more comfortable than July and August.
Platja de Palma & S'Arenal
The sea retains summer warmth and it is noticeably less crowded than August; a better month for many visitors.
Port d'Alcúdia
Warm sea and plenty of sunshine for the beach.
Port de Pollença
Warm sea and plenty of sunshine for the beach.
Porto Cristo
A town with two different daily moods. From ten until four, coaches bring visitors to the Coves del Drac. Before and after, Porto Cristo is a quiet harb…
Santa Margalida
La Beata takes place on the first Sunday — the busiest day of the year.
Cala Anguila
A good month for swimming after peak summer, though the bay can still be busy.
Cala Bona
Friedhelm’s favourite time to visit.
Cala Mandia
Particularly from late September, I recommend a visit after the busiest summer weeks.
Costitx
A coffee, a few lanes and a church at the heart of the village: Costitx lies north-east of Sencelles in central Mallorca. It makes a lovely short stop a…
Es Calderers
A particularly lovely time to explore the house and garden.
Es Fortí
Es Fortí stands on the rocky headland at the entrance to Cala Llonga in Cala d’Or. Behind its thick walls is a small courtyard, with a ramp leading up t…
Església de Nostra Senyora dels Dolors
The tall bell tower of Nostra Senyora dels Dolors rises above Manacor’s rooftops. Inside are a lofty vaulted nave, richly decorated side chapels and a l…
Església Nova
A church without a roof stands in the middle of Son Servera. Beyond Església Nova’s iron gate, garden paths pass between high walls and pointed arches,…
Finca pública de Son Real
Old farm buildings, gnarled olive trees and a museum about earlier life on Mallorca. Son Real lies between Can Picafort and Son Serra de Marina. Explore…
Manacor
Manacor is a town for wandering, shopping and watching everyday life. Café-lined squares open between shops, narrow lanes run through the old centre, an…
Mancor de la Vall
Old stone houses, narrow lanes and a coffee at the foot of the Tramuntana. Mancor de la Vall is worth a quiet village walk or a stop on a cycle ride or…
Mirador Son Real
A few steps onto a wooden platform reveal the coast of Son Real. A dolmen lies beside the viewpoint, with the necropolis and distinctive red-and-white n…
Museu d'Història de Manacor
Behind the Rafa Nadal Sports Center is a museum worth taking time over. Inside Torre dels Enagistes, the galleries explore the history of Manacor and it…
Santa Magdalena
A small chapel and a wide view across Mallorca. Santa Magdalena stands on a hill near Inca. The winding climb is short but has steep sections for cyclis…
Ses Païsses
Visit during opening hours; closed on Sundays and public holidays.
Talaiots de Son Fornés
On a low hill near Montuïri are the remains of a settlement founded almost 3,000 years ago. Massive talayots, low passages and the foundations of many b…
Son Fred
Son Fred is a well-preserved talayot near Sencelles, a round tower built from enormous stone blocks. Duck through its low entrance to reach the massive…
Worth considering — check the details
Búger
One of Mallorca's smallest municipalities: around a thousand people on a hill surrounded by almond and carob trees. No big attraction, souvenir shopping…
Caimari
Around eight hundred people live at the foot of the Tramuntana, among rough stone lanes and olive groves. The old pilgrims' path to Lluc starts here, an…
Ermita de Betlem
A hermitage founded in 1805 in the hills of Artà, reached by a narrow, winding road. The last resident hermits left in 2010. You can also walk up from t…
Llubí
A village in the Pla known for capers rather than conventional sightseeing. A church above the rooftops, a shaded square and just over two thousand resi…
Maria de la Salut
Just over two thousand people live on this rise in the Pla, with a substantial fieldstone church and a long square beneath plane trees. There’s little a…
Montuïri
A hilltop village in the Pla, with eight old windmills along one street and steps climbing to the church. It’s best known for a dance tradition that has…
Pina
Around 450 residents, a Baroque church, an old well and natural-stone lanes, plus a convent whose religious community spread across Mallorca from 1856.…
Porreres
A village in the Pla known for its apricots and windmills. An unexpectedly large church stands in the centre, while the hilltop sanctuary of Monti-sion…
Randa
A village of a hundred people at the foot of Puig de Randa, with a stone cross at the fork in the road and lanes of rough stone houses. The climb to the…
Sa Pobla
A small town on the edge of s'Albufera, built on drained marshland and known for two things — potatoes and the devils of Sant Antoni in January.
Sant Joan
Two thousand residents on a rise in the Pla, a church with a hefty tower and a town hall with a figure on its gable. Above the village stands the Consol…
Sant Jordi
A village in the Prat de Sant Jordi, the flat plain east of Palma, between fields, farm tracks and the airport flight path. Aircraft climb away above th…
Santa Eugènia
A rarely visited village halfway between Palma and Inca, with stone houses, a shady square and a hillside church — plus views across the plain that you…
Santuari de la Consolació
A small 15th-century sanctuary on a 205-metre hill near S'Alqueria Blanca, rarely busy and with views over the east coast. Getting up is the challenge —…
Santuari de Consolació
A small pilgrimage church on a hill above Sant Joan, reached by a broad stone staircase. There is a well, shade beneath the pines and picnic tables, wit…
Sencelles
Grape harvest at the surrounding estates.
Torre de Son Jaumell
A watchtower dating from 1566 on the summit above Cala Agulla and Cala Mesquida, now a ruin. The walk up takes just under an hour, with views across the…
Alaró
A village at the foot of the Tramuntana, beneath a flat-topped mountain crowned by one of Mallorca’s three former royal castles. Down below are lanes, a…
Algaida
Most people know Algaida only from the sign on the Palma–Manacor road. It’s the turn-off for Puig de Randa, but the village itself has old windmill towe…
Campanet
A village below the Tramuntana with a large church and a broad, tree-lined square. Nearby are two very different natural sights — the caves and Fonts Uf…
Campos
A farming town in the south, with golden sandstone streets and a long connection to dairy farming, capers and vegetables. Many visitors pass through on…
Es Llombards
A village of six hundred people between Santanyí and Mallorca’s southern tip, built from local sandstone. A few lanes, an arched gateway and dry-stone w…
Petra
Grape harvest on the surrounding estates.
Ses Salines
A village of golden sandstone on the road to Mallorca's southern tip, named after the coastal saltworks. In the centre, a lane forks around a tall windo…
Inca
Mallorca’s third-largest town has long been shaped by leatherworking. It has the bustle of an inland commercial centre, the island’s largest market on T…
Llucmajor
The independent Kingdom of Mallorca ended on the fields outside this town in 1349. Today Llucmajor is a working town with broad squares shaded by plane…
Port de Valldemossa
A tiny fishing settlement beneath the cliffs, reached by six kilometres of tight hairpin bends. A few stone houses and boats on slipways sit beside the…
Santa Maria del Camí
Grape harvest at the surrounding estates.
Alcúdia
Noticeably quieter from mid-September, with softer light again.
Cala Llombards
The sea retains its summer warmth; it generally becomes quieter towards the end of the month.
Cala s'Almunia
Around 110 steep steps lead down to fishermen's cottages, boathouses, rock and a tiny strip of sand. Cala s'Almunia is quite different from a convention…
Caló des Moro
One of Mallorca's best-known small coves, with turquoise water below steep rocky sides. Reaching the tiny sandy area involves rough paths and a demandin…
Cap de Formentor
Restrictions continue throughout September in 2026; check the current timetable.
Platja de Formentor
The sea retains summer warmth, with crowds easing towards the month's end.
Sa Calobra
A shingle cove at the mouth of the Torrent de Pareis, reached by a winding road completed in 1932 that is almost more famous than the destination. Twelv…
Valldemossa
Mallorca's best-known mountain village, famous for a winter that was mostly wet. Chopin and George Sand stayed in its former charterhouse in 1838–39. Vi…
Son Servera
The Friday market can be very busy. Choose another day for a quieter village walk.