Coll de n'Esteve from es Capdellà

The Ma-1031 crosses Coll de n'Esteve at 239 m. Climbed from es Capdellà it is 2.2 km long and gains 113 m, an average of 5.1%.

Mid-table on all three measures — 113 m over 2.2 km, against an island median of 192 m — this is the riding the island is actually made of. The steepest kilometre falls in the middle, from km 1.2 with 50 m already behind you. This is the hard way up. Andratx reaches the same summit at 2.5%, 2.6 points gentler — worth knowing if you are riding over rather than riding up. You do not have to invent a day around it: the Consell's signposted Serra de Tramuntana - Sud climbs it at km 12.0 of 130.3 km. One other of the sixteen cross it too.

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The shape of it

Length

2.2 km

from 126 m at the foot to 239 m at the top

Height gained

113 m

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

Average gradient

5.1%

height gained over length

Steepest kilometre

6.1%

from km 1.2

Kilometre by kilometre

The worst whole kilometre below runs from km 1.0, at 5.5%. No kilometre of it goes backwards — you climb 118 m and keep it.

The bends, counted

Counted from the road centreline rather than from memory: 2 hairpins on this side, where a hairpin is a turn of at least 135° taken inside 150 m of road. They fall between km 0.5 and km 0.6 — 2 of them inside 0.1 km, 20.0 per kilometre through that stretch. Drop the distance condition and count every turn of 135° however long it takes, and the figure is 3 — which is why published hairpin counts disagree with each other.

That puts this road 44th of the 116 climb-sides with a bend count, at 0.9 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 6.1% against an island median of 7.1%, so it is gentler than the middle of the set. It gains less 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 6.1% — 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 start this one 126 m above the sea and finish it at 239 m: the climb itself is short of the height that changes the air, so what follows is about the col you arrive at rather than the road you took to it. In January — the coldest month at this top — the plain 8 m above the sea averages 14.4 °C around 12:00 while the summit averages 12.5 °C: 1.9 °C the climbing did not buy you. In July the same top sits at 28.9 °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 — 7.0 °C standing still — feels like 2.7 °C at the slower speed and 1.4 °C at the faster one. By 12:00 the air at this top has climbed back above the range the index is published for, in every month of the year: the cold descent from here is an early one, not a high one. 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:

The other side

There are two ways up to Coll de n'Esteve, and they are not the same ride. Both, side by side:

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 es Capdellà to Coll de n'Esteve 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.

es Capdellà 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.