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Cycling from Sóller
20 of the island's 75 published climbs (counting each direction up a pass separately) start within 30 km of Sóller by road, and riding all of them would gain 4,872 m. Widen that to 50 km — a hire car, or a long morning out and back — and it is 53.
- Climbs within 30 km
- 20 / 75
- Ascent within reach
- 4,872 m
- Biggest climb in range
- Puig Major
- Drive from the airport
- 30.5 km
- Places to stay
- 30
of the 75 published
height gained if you rode every one of them
quickest driving route, not a journey time
licensed by the island’s tourist register within 2 km; a minimum, and a count of establishments, not beds
What this base is for
Sóller is the 5th shortest transfer of the 18 bases here — 31 km of driving from the terminal, against 26 km to Palmanova. If the trip is short and the first ride matters, that is hours rather than minutes. Three climbs start where you are staying, within 1 km of the town, Coll de Sóller among them. Very few towns on the island have that. The one to plan a day around is Puig Major: 848 m gained over 15.4 km at 5.5%, with 0.5 km of road between the town and the foot of it. If the week is only about climbing, the nearest town that beats it is Valldemossa, 21 km away by road: 40 climbs within 30 km against 20 here, 2.0 times the choice for an hour in a car.
Climbs within reach
Every published climb whose foot is within 30 km of Sóller by road, nearest first. The approach is how far you ride before the climb starts, measured on the shortest rideable road, which is rarely the one you would choose.
Climbs within 30 km of Sóller
| Climb | Approach | Length | Gain | Average | Summit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coll de Sóller | 0.0 km | 8.5 km | 463 m | 5.5% | 497 m |
| Coll d'en Marquès | 0.5 km | 3.5 km | 161 m | 4.6% | 186 m |
| Puig Major | 0.5 km | 15.4 km | 848 m | 5.5% | 873 m |
| Can Bleda | 1.2 km | 4.2 km | 199 m | 4.7% | 223 m |
| Coll d'en Marquès | 5.5 km | 2.1 km | 127 m | 6.0% | 186 m |
| Can Bleda | 7.7 km | 2.3 km | 158 m | 6.8% | 223 m |
| Can Costa | 11.6 km | 6.6 km | 297 m | 4.5% | 426 m |
| Coll de Sóller | 16.1 km | 7.6 km | 330 m | 4.3% | 497 m |
| Coll d'Honor | 16.4 km | 6.1 km | 343 m | 5.6% | 555 m |
| Ermita de la Santíssima Trinitat | 19.5 km | 2.3 km | 101 m | 4.5% | 474 m |
| Coll d'en Claret | 21.9 km | 2.1 km | 104 m | 4.9% | 499 m |
| Puig d'Enmig | 22.9 km | 2.4 km | 131 m | 5.5% | 235 m |
| Coll d'Honor | 25.2 km | 2.7 km | 130 m | 4.8% | 555 m |
| coll d'en Portell | 28.2 km | 5.0 km | 121 m | 2.4% | 213 m |
| Coll dels Tords | 28.9 km | 7.2 km | 201 m | 2.8% | 276 m |
| Puig de Son Roca | 28.9 km | 6.9 km | 296 m | 4.3% | 371 m |
| Coll d'en Claret | 29.1 km | 7.0 km | 313 m | 4.5% | 499 m |
| coll de s'Heura | 29.1 km | 2.6 km | 137 m | 5.2% | 323 m |
| Coll des Grau | 29.1 km | 7.5 km | 280 m | 3.7% | 466 m |
| coll des Vent | 29.1 km | 4.0 km | 132 m | 3.3% | 318 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 climbs (each direction up a pass counted separately), joined to the 75 published here.Computed 6 August 2026.
Signed routes from here
All 2 of the signed routes below run through Sóller itself, so every one of them can be joined without a transfer.
The Consell's signed cicloturisme routes within 30 km of Sóller by road, nearest first.
| Route | By road | Joined at | Length | Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serra de Tramuntana - Sud | runs through | — | 130.3 km | 2,445 m |
| Serra de Tramuntana - Zona Central 2 (no page yet) | runs through | — | 127.0 km | — |
How we got this No new measurement: a route is joined only through a town that is both one of its own waypoints and one of the towns the road distances were measured from. Every distance here is therefore an existing road distance, and every “runs through” means the route and the town share the same OpenStreetMap node. Matching on node ids misses a settlement mapped under two nodes. s’Arenal is mapped twice, once either side of the Palma/Llucmajor boundary, so its second node was added by hand after both entries were checked. 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.
Which parts of the island the climbs are in
All of it is in one comarca, the Serra de Tramuntana, so a week from Sóller is a week in one kind of country.
Hiring a bike here
No surveyed hire shop stands in Sóller, and it falls outside the one free-delivery circle this field publishes: 64.7 km from Port d'Alcúdia by road, against the 45 km Pro Cycling Mallorca draws. Eight operators still promise the whole island — but on this side of it delivery is the transaction rather than a convenience, so settle what it costs before you book the bike, not after.
- Shops in town0
- Operators that can supply you here8
- Inside the published free-delivery circle no — 64.7 km by road, and the circle is 45 km
- From the one per-kilometre door58.7 km
This site publishes no nearest-shop distance, and the reason is worth stating: Mallorca Cycling Center, Can Velo Mallorca and Berganti Bikes trade from towns it has not measured a road network from, so any such figure would be an upper bound printed as an answer.
Every operator the survey reads, the delivery term each one publishes and the sentence it comes from: the island’s hire field.
How we got this every delivery term here is a sentence the operator published, stored word for word and re-checked as a verbatim substring of the page at each read; the classification into free, charged, priced by zone, priced by the kilometre or unstated is made by a printed pattern rather than by reading. Distances are road distances on the same graph the rest of this cluster uses. No price is stored: where an operator names a figure, the currency symbol is read as a delimiter and nothing on the money side of it is captured. No nearest-shop distance is computed at all — three surveyed shops stand in towns outside this measurement, so every such figure would be an upper bound.Computed from the fleet and delivery pages of 18 Mallorcan road-bike hire operators, against this site's road measurement of the island's base towns.Computed 20 October 2026.
Getting here
31 km of driving from the terminals at Palma airport by the quickest route. That is a distance, measured the same way for every base, and not a journey time. A bike box does not fit in every hire car, and once you leave the airport, getting it to the hotel is your problem, not 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 30 establishments within 2 km of the centre of Sóller, between them 746 bed places, the largest of them 98 on its own. A further 12 the register files here carry no coordinate to place them by, so they are outside that count. The search below covers this town only.
See what is available in Sóller
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The nearest alternatives
The other bases on this island, nearest first from Sóller, 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.