Cycling from Valldemossa

40 of the island's 75 published climbs (counting each direction up a pass separately) start within 30 km of Valldemossa by road, and riding all of them would gain 8,928 m. Widen that to 50 km — a hire car, or a long morning out and back — and it is 57.

Climbs within 30 km

40 / 75

of the 75 published

Ascent within reach

8,928 m

height gained if you rode every one of them

Biggest climb in range

Puig Major

Drive from the airport

25.6 km

quickest driving route, not a journey time

Places to stay

12

licensed by the island’s tourist register within 2 km; a minimum, and a count of establishments, not beds

What this base is for

For what you can reach from the door, which matters most in a cycling week, Valldemossa is the best placed of the 18 bases here, with 40 climbs within 30 km against 37 from Palma. The one to plan a day around is Puig Major: 848 m gained over 15.4 km at 5.5%, with 21.2 km of road between the town and the foot of it. Most of the riding here is in one kind of country: 87% of the height within reach is in the Serra de Tramuntana. The trade-off here favours the riding: Valldemossa is 1st of 18 for what you can reach by bike and only 17th for places to stay, with 12 on the tourism register. Book early, and expect a village rather than a resort.

Climbs within reach

Every published climb whose foot is within 30 km of Valldemossa 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.

20 more stand between 30 km and 50 km, which is a drive or a long morning rather than a warm-up.

Signed routes from here

No signed route is routed through Valldemossa, so each of the 7 below is joined somewhere else — at Deià, Sóller, Palmanova and s'Arenal de Llucmajor — and the distance is the road ride to that point, not the length of the route.

Which parts of the island the climbs are in

The climbs within reach of Valldemossa are spread across three comarques. The shares matter more than the count: they tell you whether a week here is mostly mountains with a flat day, or mostly flat with a mountain day.

• Serra de Tramuntana 87% · 7,727 m
• Palma 12% · 1,078 m
• Raiguer 1% · 123 m

Hiring a bike here

No surveyed hire shop stands in Valldemossa, and it falls outside the one free-delivery circle this field publishes: 58.9 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 — 58.9 km by road, and the circle is 45 km
• From the one per-kilometre door62.6 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.

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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

26 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 12 establishments within 2 km of the centre of Valldemossa, between them 173 bed places, the largest of them 29 on its own. The search below covers this town only.

See what is available in Valldemossa

The nearest alternatives

The other bases on this island, nearest first from Valldemossa, with what each of them reaches. Moving an hour up the coast changes the week more than most riders expect.

• Palma 17.7 km
• Sóller 21.0 km
• Port de Sóller 22.9 km
• Palmanova 28.5 km
• s'Arenal de Llucmajor 29.6 km

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Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 6 August 2026. Next review due within 180 days.