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Cycling from Colònia de Sant Jordi
Three of the 75 climb-sides this site has measured and published start within 30 km of Colònia de Sant Jordi by road, and riding all of them would gain 886 m. Widen that to 50 km — a hire car, or a long morning out and back — and it is 8.
- Climbs within 30 km
- 3 / 75
- Ascent within reach
- 886 m
- Biggest climb in range
- Santuari de Sant Salvador
- Drive from the airport
- 46.1 km
- Places to stay
- 27
of the 75 this site publishes
height gained if you rode every one of them
quickest driving route, not a journey time
recorded in OpenStreetMap within 2 km — a floor, not a count of beds
What this base is for
Colònia de Sant Jordi does not lead this field on anything, and most of these towns do not: it ranks 9th of 18 on the drive from the airport, which is its strongest showing. The one to plan a day around is Santuari de Sant Salvador: 373 m gained over 7.3 km at 5.1%, with 25.9 km of road between the town and the foot of it. The riding here has one character rather than several: 73% of the height within reach stands in the Migjorn. It is worth being honest about the trade you are making. Colònia de Sant Jordi is 12th of 18 for places to stay and 18th for climbs within reach — a town built for holidays first and riding second. And if the week is about the climbing and nothing else, the nearest town that beats it is s'Arenal de Llucmajor, 36 km away by road: 25 climb-sides within 30 km against 3 here, 8.3 times the choice for an hour in a car.
What starts here
Every published climb-side whose foot is within 30 km of Colònia de Sant Jordi by road, nearest first. The distance is the approach — what you cover before the gradient starts — over the shortest ridable road, which is rarely the road you would pick.
Climbs within 30 km of Colònia de Sant Jordi
| Climb | Approach | Length | Gain | Average | Summit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| collada de Gràcia | 25.5 km | 6.9 km | 242 m | 3.5% | 385 m |
| Castell de Santueri | 25.7 km | 7.6 km | 271 m | 3.6% | 376 m |
| Santuari de Sant Salvador | 25.9 km | 7.3 km | 373 m | 5.1% | 478 m |
How we got this Dijkstra over the same OpenStreetMap road graph the routes engine uses — no motorway, because a bicycle may not ride a Mallorcan autopista; cycleways in; ways tagged access=private, no, customers or permit dropped before routing. It is the approach ride to where the gradient starts, not a route recommendation: the shortest path between two points is rarely the road you would choose. Distances are to the climb’s foot as the climb measurements record it.Computed from the shortest ridable road distance from each town’s OpenStreetMap place node to the foot of every one of the 122 measured climb-sides, joined to the 75 this site publishes.Computed 6 August 2026.
Signed routes from here
No signed route is routed through Colònia de Sant Jordi, so each of the 3 below is joined somewhere else — at Santanyí and Felanitx — and the distance is the road ride to that point, not the length of the route.
The Consell's signed cicloturisme routes within 30 km of Colònia de Sant Jordi by road, nearest first.
| Route | By road | Joined at | Length | Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fars de Migjorn | 13.8 km | Santanyí | 147.2 km | 1,013 m |
| Llogarets del Llevant | 13.8 km | Santanyí | 94.2 km | 985 m |
| Ermites del Llevant (no page yet) | 25.8 km | Felanitx | 116.3 km | 1,649 m |
How we got this No new measurement, and deliberately none: a route is entered only through a town that is both one of its own waypoints and one of the towns a road network was measured from, so every distance here is a road metre-count that already existed and every “runs through” is an identity between two node ids with no distance in it. Matching on ids has one blind spot and it is handled rather than lived with: a settlement mapped under two nodes reads as absent, so where that happens — s’Arenal is mapped twice, once either side of the Palma/Llucmajor boundary — the second node is admitted only after both records have been read and the reasoning written down. The cost is stated rather than hidden — a route is reached through the nearest measured town on it, which is never closer than the true way on and may be further, and that town is named beside the figure.Computed from the sixteen signed cicloturisme routes’ own place waypoints, matched by OpenStreetMap node id against the 30 km road table this cluster already holds.Computed 6 August 2026.
What the riding is made of
The climbs within reach of Colònia de Sant Jordi are spread across two comarques, and the shares matter more than the count — they are what decides whether a week here is mountains with a flat day or the other way round.
- Migjorn 73% · 644 m
- Pla de Mallorca 27% · 242 m
Getting here
46 km of driving from the terminals at Palma airport by the quickest route — a distance, measured the same way for every base on this site, and not a journey time. A bike box does not fit in every hire car, and the road out of the airport is the one place on Mallorca where that becomes your problem rather than the airline's.
If the plan includes climbs beyond a comfortable spin, compare Mallorca car hire.
If it does not, a fixed-price transfer with a bike box declared up front is the simpler answer: book an airport transfer.
How we got this a second road graph, built for this measurement alone: motorway and its slip roads included, cycleways excluded, the bicycle access filter off — because a rider arrives by taxi or hire car and the shortest ridable path is not that journey. Edges are weighted by the posted maxspeed where OpenStreetMap has one and by road class where it does not, so the route is the one a driver takes rather than the shortest line. It is a distance, not a journey time: nothing here models traffic.Computed from the length of the quickest driving route from the terminal buildings at Palma airport to each town’s OpenStreetMap place node.Computed 6 August 2026.
Where to stay
The island's own register licenses 27 establishments within 2 km of the centre of Colònia de Sant Jordi, between them 3,696 bed places, the largest of them 750 on its own. A further two the register files here carry no coordinate to place them by, so they are outside that count. The search below is for this town, not for the island.
See what is available in Colònia de Sant Jordi
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The nearest alternatives
The other bases on this island, nearest first from Colònia de Sant Jordi, with what each of them reaches. Moving an hour up the coast changes the week more than most riders expect.
One email when something moves
The 312 on-sale date, a restriction that closes a road to bikes, a rule that changes what you may ride. Sent when it changes — not on a schedule.
How this site is researched, measured and paid for is set out in full on the methodology page.
Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 6 August 2026. Next review due within 180 days.