Coll de Femenia from Pollença

The Ma-10 crosses Coll de Femenia at 537 m. Climbed from Pollença it is 14.0 km long and gains 485 m, an average of 3.5%.

Only 2 of the 75 climb-sides here gain more than its 485 m. The steepest kilometre falls in the middle, from km 7.8 with 160 m already behind you. You do not have to invent a day around it: the Consell's signposted Serra de Tramuntana nord climbs it at km 24.6 of 108.7 km.

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The shape of it

Length

14.0 km

from 52 m at the foot to 537 m at the top

Height gained

485 m

summit minus the lowest point on the road — not a running total of every rise

Average gradient

3.5%

height gained over length

Steepest kilometre

7.0%

from km 7.8

Kilometre by kilometre

The worst whole kilometre below runs from km 8.0, at 6.7%. No kilometre of it goes backwards — you climb 507 m and keep it.

The bends, counted

No bend on this climb is a hairpin under the rule this site uses — a turn of at least 135° taken inside 150 m of road. The sharpest turn on it does reach 249°, but it takes 394 m of road to get there — a road bending round a spur rather than a switchback. 12 bends on the climb reach 90°.

That puts this road 91th of the 116 climb-sides with a bend count, at 0.0 hairpins per kilometre. The twistiest roads on Mallorca has the whole ranking, the rule the count uses, and four published counts checked against the road they were counted on.

Where it stands

Its steepest kilometre averages 7.0% against an island median of 7.1%, so it is gentler than the middle of the set. It gains more than the 192 m the median climb-side here gains, and the table puts every other measure beside the same middle.

The gear it asks for

The number that decides whether you ride up a climb or walk it is not its average. It is the steepest sustained kilometre, which here is 7.0% — so that is what this calculator is wired to. It opens on this climb; change the chainring, the cassette and your weight and it will tell you what cadence that gear actually turns.

The air at the top, and what the way down feels like

You finish this climb 485 m above where you started it, and the air knows. In January — the coldest month at this top — the foot of the climb averages 14.0 °C around 12:00 while the top averages 10.0 °C. That is a different set of clothes at each end: 4.0 °C bought with 485 m of climbing. In July the same top sits at 27.2 °C.

Then you turn round. Going down at 30–50 km/h you make your own wind, and at 08:00 in January the air at this top — 6.0 °C standing still — feels like 1.4 °C at the slower speed and 0.0 °C at the faster one. Ride it at 12:00 instead and the same descent reads 5.5 °C to 6.6 °C — the index speaks about the middle of the day here in one month of the twelve. Whatever you would wear on the way up, the way down is the reason the gilet is in the pocket.

Two thermometers 1,007 m apart define a line, not a surface, so a top on the north coast reads a figure taken across the island. Every figure here is measured under an open sky: where the mountain's own shadow lies, read the table as the warm version of the morning. What the temperatures do across the whole island, and what to put in the pocket, is on the kit guide.

On the signposted network

The Consell de Mallorca signposts sixteen cycle-touring routes across the island — the readiest way to ride this climb without building a day around it from scratch. Which of them take it in, in which direction, and at what point in their day:

What else is close

What else is up here, if this one turns out to be short of a day. Distances are straight-line between the summits, not by road — in the Tramuntana the road between two tops four kilometres apart can be fifteen.

Or go back to the whole atlas, where all 75 climb-sides can be filtered and sorted at once.

How this was measured, and how to read it

• The inventory is queried from OpenStreetMap rather than written down: every named pass on a paved road, and every named summit a paved road dead-ends at above 150 m. Each entry carries the OSM id of its top and of the village it starts from.
• Ways tagged as closed to the public — private, no, customers, permit — are removed from the road network before anything is routed, so no climb here is measured up somebody’s drive. A road shut to cars but open to bicycles is kept.
• The road is the OpenStreetMap centreline of whichever road actually crosses the pass — not a GPS trace of one ride, so no rider’s wander or lost signal is in the number.
• Elevation is sampled every 10 m from the Spanish national 5 m terrain model, and interpolated in a straight line through tunnels and over bridges, where a terrain model reads the mountain above or the valley below.
• Where a road reaches a tunnel mouth without going through it, the model has already climbed the hill the road is about to pass under, so the last metres are dropped rather than measured. One climb-side on the island is affected and its page says how far short of the portal its figures stop.
• The foot of the climb is the lowest point on that road between the summit and the named village. The distance from the village to the foot is reported separately, because on several of these climbs it is kilometres.
• Height gained is summit minus foot. It is not a running total of every rise, which depends entirely on the sampling interval and is the single biggest reason published figures disagree.
• Average gradient is height gained over length — not the mean of the per-sample gradients, which over-weights the flat bits.
• The steepest kilometre is the largest height gain over any 1,000 m window on the climb, sliding 10 m at a time.

How we got this Inventory queried from OpenStreetMap; the road walked from Pollença to Coll de Femenia on the filtered island road graph; elevation sampled every 10 m and smoothed over 50 m. Comarca from OpenStreetMap admin_level=7 boundaries by point-in-polygon.Computed from OpenStreetMap road centrelines (ODbL) and IGN Elevacion4258_5, Spain’s 5 m national terrain model (CC BY 4.0 scne.es).Computed 7 August 2026.

Sources, because these licences require the attribution: road geometry © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); elevation from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0 scne.es); comarca boundaries from OpenStreetMap admin_level=7. This climb clears the 100 m the atlas requires of an entry; the ones that do not are listed there with their figures.

Pollença is where this climb starts, so from there you are on it within a kilometre of the door. Somewhere to stay the night before. Otherwise it is a hire car from Palma, like most of the island. Both links are marked and pay us if you use them.