Coll des Racó from Artà

The camí des Coll des Racó / camí des Racó crosses Coll des Racó at 226 m. Climbed from Artà it is 3.5 km long and gains 121 m, an average of 3.5%.

It sits mid-table on all three measures: 121 m over 3.5 km, against an island median of 192 m. Most of the climbing on Mallorca looks like this. The steepest kilometre falls in the middle, from km 1.6. 20% of it is at 8% or steeper. The nearest town where you can book a bed is Cala Rajada, 9.8 km by road from the foot of the climb.

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The profile

Length

3.5 km

from 106 m at the foot to 226 m at the top

Height gained

121 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

7.1%

from km 1.6

Kilometre by kilometre

The worst whole kilometre below runs from km 2.0, at 5.9%. No kilometre of it goes backwards — you climb 135 m and keep it.

The bends, counted

No bend on this climb is a hairpin, which here means a turn of at least 135° taken inside 150 m of road. The sharpest turn on it comes to 108°, an ordinary corner. 2 bends on the climb reach 90°.

That puts this road 101st of the 116 climbs with a hairpin 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.

How it compares with every other climb here

Its steepest kilometre averages 7.1% against an island median of 7.1%, which is typical for the island. It gains less than the 192 m of the median climb on the island. The table sets every other measure against the island median in the same way.

The gear it asks for

Whether you ride up a climb or walk it depends on its steepest sustained kilometre, which here is 7.1%, far more than on its average. The calculator below uses that figure and opens on this climb: change the chainring, the cassette and your weight and it tells you what cadence that gear turns.

Temperature at the top, and what the way down feels like

You finish this climb 121 m above where you started it, and it is colder up there. In January, the coldest month at this top, the foot of the climb averages 13.6 °C around 12:00 while the top averages 12.6 °C. That is an arm-warmer's worth: 1.0 °C bought with 121 m of climbing. In July the same top sits at 29.0 °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 — 7.1 °C standing still — feels like 2.8 °C at the slower speed and 1.5 °C at the faster one. By 12:00 the air at this top is too warm for the wind chill index to apply, in every month of the year, so a cold descent here is an early-morning problem. Whatever you would wear on the way up, the way down is the reason the gilet is in the pocket.

The temperatures are read by height between two thermometers 1,007 m apart, so a top on the north coast gets a figure measured elsewhere on the island. They are also open-sky readings: where the mountain shades the road, the morning will be colder than the table. What the temperatures do across the whole island, and what to put in the pocket, is on the kit guide.

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 you can filter and sort all 75 climbs at once.

How this was measured, and how to read it

• The list of climbs comes from a query against OpenStreetMap: every named pass on a paved road, and every named summit above 150 m where a paved road ends. 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. It is not a GPS trace of one ride, so no rider’s wander or lost signal ends up 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 before the portal are left out. One climb 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. A running total of every rise would depend entirely on the sampling interval, and that is the biggest single reason published figures disagree.
• Average gradient is height gained divided by length. The mean of the per-sample gradients would over-weight the flat stretches, so it is not used.
• 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 Artà to Coll des Racó 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.

Artà 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.