Ermita de la Santíssima Trinitat from Valldemossa

The road to Ermita de la Santíssima Trinitat goes up and stops: there is no way onward, so it is ridden up and back down the same way, and what the map records at the top is a sanctuary. The way there is the Ma-10 / Camí de s’Ermita. From Valldemossa it is 2.3 km and 101 m, an average of 4.5%, finishing at 474 m.

This is one of the steep ones: 9.6% over its hardest kilometre, the 10th steepest of 75. The steepest kilometre falls in the middle, from km 0.8. 36% of it is at 8% or steeper. The nearest town where you can book a bed is Valldemossa, 1.5 km by road from the foot of the climb.

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The climb is measured from where the road stops going down, and that point sits 1.5 km beyond Valldemossa — so you will have ridden 1.5 km from the village before the numbers below start. None of the figures include that approach.

The profile

Length

2.3 km

from 373 m at the foot to 474 m at the top

Height gained

101 m

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

Average gradient

4.5%

height gained over length

Steepest kilometre

9.6%

from km 0.8

Kilometre by kilometre

The worst whole kilometre below runs from km 1.0, at 9.0%. And it is not all up: at least one kilometre of this climb goes downhill. You will ride 116 m of ascent to end up 101 m above the foot.

The bends, counted

There is no hairpin count for this climb. The bends are counted on a fresh trace of the road from the map, and here that trace differs from the measured length by more than 2%, so a count would describe a slightly different road.

How it compares with every other climb here

Its steepest kilometre averages 9.6% against an island median of 7.1%, so it is steeper than the typical climb here. 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 9.6%, 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 start this one 373 m above the sea and finish it at 474 m. The climb itself adds too little height to change the air much, so the figures below describe the col you arrive at. 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 10.5 °C: 3.9 °C the climbing did not buy you. In July the same top sits at 27.6 °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 — 6.2 °C standing still — feels like 1.6 °C at the slower speed and 0.3 °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 Valldemossa to Ermita de la Santíssima Trinitat 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.

Valldemossa is the last named place before this climb, 1.5 km short of the foot — near enough to be riding it before the legs are warm. Somewhere to stay the night before. Otherwise it is a hire car from Palma, like most of the island.