Regions · Mallorca
Palma
Of the six parts of Mallorca, Palma has the most junctions per kilometre — 29.7 / 10 km, against 20.0 / 10 km in Raiguer, and it holds an end of three of the four measures altogether. What that means on the bike: the road asks you to choose constantly, which is what makes it easy to improvise and hard to follow a line on a map.
- Rideable road
- 498.8 km
- Share of the island's
- 9.8%
- Climbs measured
- 5
- Base towns
- 1
- Water taps
- 83
Of 5,082 km mapped across Mallorca.
On 5.4% of the island's land — 1.8× as much road as its size implies.
Every one has a page here.
Towns compared here as a place to stay for a week.
Public drinking water, mapped and checked on the ground by others.
Where this is
- Palma
- the other five
- 1 base town
- 5 climb summits
- 4 with no way round
- 8.2 km with no junction
The map leaves one thing out. The comarca named Palma is the municipality, and the municipality of Palma includes the Cabrera archipelago: 13.04 km², 6.3% of its area, about 40 km off the south coast, a national park with no public road. Every road figure here is measured on Mallorca, so the land area used for those figures is Mallorca’s alone.
The road network on four measures
Four properties of the road network, measured the same way in all six comarques so the ranks compare fairly. Palma is highest or lowest on three of them.
Palma's rank on each of the four measures, out of six
| What is measured | Rank | Here | Highest on the island | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road with no way round | Roads whose removal would cut the network in two — there is no detour at any length, so a ride that uses one uses it twice. | 6 / 6 | 11.2% | Serra de Tramuntana — 21.2% |
| Junctions per 10 km | How often the road offers you a turning that goes somewhere. | 1 / 6 | 29.7 | Palma — 29.7 |
| Road carrying no number | The share with no Ma- number on it. No traffic count for Mallorca has been found, so this share is used as a rough stand-in for how quiet the roads are. | 3 / 6 | 65.3% | Migjorn — 74.0% |
| Road per square kilometre | Kilometres of ridable road for each square kilometre of land. | 1 / 6 | 2.55 | Palma — 2.55 |
How we got this A run of road belongs to the comarca its midpoint is in; a junction to the comarca it stands in. Bridges are found on the whole island graph and then attributed, so no figure here depends on where a boundary cuts a road.Computed from 5,082 km of rideable road across six comarques.Computed 14 August 2026.
The longest stretch with no turning
The longest run of ridable road inside Palma that offers no junction at all is 8.2 km long, on the Ma-1043. It runs between Coll dels Tords (0.4 km off) and mirador de na Burguesa (1.6 km off). Once you are on it there is nothing to decide and no way to cut the day short, which is worth knowing before you commit to it with an hour of light left.
Roads with no way round
Four roads here would cut the network in two if they closed. In every case there is a way round, but it runs through a village street, so it is a detour rather than a proper route.
Roads inside Palma whose closure would split the network
| Road | Road cut off behind it | Nearest town, straight line | Alternative |
|---|---|---|---|
| camí de Ca's Calixto i Sobremunt | 15.4 km | Palma, 7.9 km | A village street only |
| carretera de Sobremunt | 9.6 km | Palma, 9.3 km | A village street only |
| Ma-6011 | 9.0 km | s'Arenal de Llucmajor, 2.3 km | A village street only |
| camí de Son Binissalom | 8.3 km | s'Arenal de Llucmajor, 6.8 km | A village street only |
How we got this A committed kilometre is one on an edge whose removal disconnects the network — a road with no alternative at any length of detour, so a ride that uses it uses it twice. What a road holds is the kilometres of riding on the smaller side of the split its removal makes. The larger side is the rest of Mallorca and is not a statement about a place. The town is the nearest measured base to the middle of the road in a straight line, which on this island is not the distance you would ride: it locates the road, it does not tell you how to get to it.Computed from The island road graph — 5,082 km, 8,360 junctions.Computed 14 August 2026.
The climbs here
Five climbs have been measured with their summit inside Palma, counting each direction up a pass separately, and all of them are below.
Published climbs topping out inside Palma, biggest gain first
| Climb | Length | Gain | Average | Summit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puig de sa Coma Fosca from Gènova | 5.3 km | 340 m | 6.4% | 393 m |
| Coll de sa Creu from Gènova | 5.1 km | 248 m | 4.9% | 322 m |
| mirador de na Burguesa from Gènova | 2.0 km | 184 m | 9.2% | 270 m |
| Puig de ses Rotes from Esporles | 2.6 km | 169 m | 6.5% | 326 m |
| Canet from Esporles | 2.2 km | 137 m | 6.2% | 294 m |
How we got this A climb belongs to the comarca its summit stands in, not the one it is ridden from. Both sides of a col therefore count in the same place even where the villages beneath them do not.Computed from 122 measured climbs across Mallorca, each direction counted separately, 5 published.Computed 14 August 2026.
Official routes through here
Four of the island's eight signposted routes with a published track cross Palma, and together they bring 89.4 km of riding inside the boundary. The distance below is what each route rides here, not how long the route is.
Official routes riding inside Palma
| Route | Ridden here | Share of route | Whole route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ermites del Pla | 41.4 km | 29.8% | 138.7 km |
| Llogarets del Pla de Mallorca | 22.3 km | 24.6% | 90.5 km |
| Fars de Migjorn | 16.7 km | 11.4% | 147.2 km |
| Serra de Tramuntana - Sud | 9.1 km | 7.0% | 130.3 km |
How we got this Measured by walking each published GPX track against the comarca boundaries and giving every segment to the comarca its midpoint stands in. "Share of route" is how much of that whole route is inside Palma.Computed from every consecutive pair of track points as one segment, its metres going to the comarca its midpoint stands in; shares divide by the placed length and not the walked length, so ground no boundary covers is reported separately rather than attributed.Computed 1 September 2026.
Staying here
One town inside Palma is compared as a base for a week — how many climbs start within reach of each, how much climbing that is, and how long the transfer is.
What publishers say about it
One claim about Palma, from one publisher, each quoted word for word from its own page, with the date it was read.
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If you stay near Palma, there’s easy riding around Palma Bay on a 30-kilometre (20 mile) cycle path (out and back).
Whether each of these holds up against the road data is set out in the regions guide.
If this region is not for you
The part of Mallorca least like Palma on the same four measures is Serra de Tramuntana. If what is above is the opposite of what you want from a week, look there next.
Where this boundary comes from
Palma is not a jurisdiction. No council governs it, no law defines it, and the six-part division it belongs to is a geographer's, published in 1994 and carrying no official rank. It is built out of whole municipalities, which is what makes it stable enough to measure against, and OpenStreetMap carries its outline. Every figure above is attributed by that outline: a run of road belongs to the comarca its midpoint stands in, and a climb to the one its summit stands in.
Source Viquipèdia (Catalan Wikipedia) · checked 28 August 2026The article’s own words for the status are «que no té rang oficial», and it attributes the six-part division to Lluch i Dubon’s Geografia de les Illes Balears (1994) — a book whose publisher, Lleonard Muntaner, still lists it. This is a tertiary source and is labelled as one: it is cited for the status of the division, which is a negative fact (no instrument creates these boundaries), and a negative fact has no primary document to cite by construction. The boundaries this site measures against are OpenStreetMap’s admin_level=7 relations, each carrying the Wikidata id of the comarca it represents, which is the join that makes the two agree.que no té rang oficial
One email when something moves
The 312 on-sale date, a restriction that closes a road to bikes, a rule that changes what you may ride. Sent when it changes — not on a schedule.
What counts as rideable road, what counts as a junction and when a road has no way round are all defined on the methodology page.
Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 14 August 2026. Next review due within 180 days.