Far de Formentor

93.0 km and 1,231 m of ascent: an ordinary day’s ride. It goes up coll de Can Llompart from Sa Pobla and pas de l'Escala de l'amo en Joan Cerdà from Port de Pollença. It starts in north of Can Picafort, it is signposted on the road, and the Consell publishes it as 96.0 km of prose with no track, no profile and no GPX. You will find all three below.

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Track geometry is derived from OpenStreetMap and carries its ODbL licence inside the file; elevation is from Spain’s 5 m national terrain model.

Length

93.0 km

Ascent

1,231 m

Ascent per km

13 m

Highest point

221 m

Steepest kilometre

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Steepest 5 km

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Grade (Consell)

Mitjana

Route map

Our rebuilt track drawn over the island, with no map tiles and no third-party request. 93.0 km, starting and finishing in north of Can Picafort.

Which part of the island

62.2% of this route’s 93.0 km runs in Serra de Tramuntana. It touches three of Mallorca’s six comarques (districts) and crosses a boundary between them 4 times.

A segment that straddles a boundary is counted whole on one side; across this route’s 4 crossings that is at most 191 m.

Elevation profile

Elevation sampled every 20 m from Spain’s 5 m national terrain model and smoothed over 100 m. Highest point 221 m at km 62.1; lowest 1 m.

What this route is for

This one sits in the middle of the set: 93.0 km and 1,231 m, at 13 m of ascent per kilometre. It does not top any of the measures we rank routes on, so ride it for the places it goes through.

Ranked against the 8 official routes whose reconstruction passes both checks: the 5th most for ascent, the 3rd steepest per kilometre, the 7th longest.

The measured climbs on it

Matched by where the track goes against the 122 climbs we have measured, counting each direction up a pass separately. The track has to pass within 120 m of both a climb’s foot and its summit, and ride roughly its length between them. Nothing is matched by name.

A descent is shown at the kilometre where the route goes over the top. We hold the summit and the foot of each climb but not the point where a descent ends, so no range is given for it.

Climbing per 10 km

The route in ten-kilometre blocks. A total of 1,231 m over 93.0 km does not tell you whether the climbing comes all at once, and on this route it does not.

The roads it uses

These are the roads our rebuilt track actually uses, longest first. 84.1% of its length is on roads the Consell names for this route.

Roadworks on this route

2 entries on the road authority’s register fall on roads this route rides — up to 2.1 km of the 93.0 km, and none of it is a closure.

• Care needed — The Ma-3420 has one lane working, with traffic alternating, for roadworks. From km 18.5, for up to 2.0 km Until 21 December 2026 · Working days (Mon–Sat), 07:00–19:00

  Source Ma-3420 — IDEmallorca — Consell de Mallorca · checked 18 October 2026This route rides 1,980 m of the Ma-3420, and the stretch on the register runs within 250 m of the route’s own track for 2,062 m. The distance given is the smaller of the two: the route cannot be affected along more of itself than it rides on that road.TRAM EN OBRES AMB POSSIBLES AFECCIONS AL TRANSIT, cada dia laborable de les 07:00 a les 19:00 hores, fins desembre del 2026

• Care needed — The Ma-2200 has works on the carriageway, for roadworks. From km 20.5, for up to 2.1 km Until 21 December 2026 · Working days (Mon–Sat), 07:00–19:00

  Source Ma-2200 — IDEmallorca — Consell de Mallorca · checked 18 October 2026This route rides 16,651 m of the Ma-2200, and the stretch on the register runs within 250 m of the route’s own track for 2,141 m. The distance given is the smaller of the two: the route cannot be affected along more of itself than it rides on that road.TRAM EN OBRES AMB POSSIBLES AFECCIONS AL TRANSIT, cada dia laborable de les 07:00 a les 19:00 hores, fins desembre del 2026

Works get lifted early and extended late. Before a ride that depends on one of these, the authority’s own viewer carries the current picture. Consell de Mallorca — road incidents viewer. What’s shut on Mallorca’s roads

Where it starts

The Consell puts the start at the Ma-12 / avinguda Tucà junction, north of Can Picafort.

The track passes through Platja de Muro, Port de Pollença, Port d'Alcúdia, Ca'n Picafort and Alcúdia, all of them base towns we cover.

Towns with beds within reach

4 of these 5 towns are on the route itself. The rest are a road transfer away, measured to the point where you join the route.

Staying on the route

Riding this one several days running is easier from a town it actually goes through. Search Platja de Muro, Port de Pollença and Port d'Alcúdia:

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Getting to the start with a bike is the other half of the day, and the Consell starts most of these routes away from the airport.

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How this reconstruction was checked

The Consell publishes 96.0 km for this route. Our version measures 93.0 km, a difference of -3.1%.

It is a circuit, and our version returns to its start at the same point.

84.1% of the distance ran on roads the Consell names for this route.

We publish a track only when our version matches the Consell’s distance within a set tolerance. The rule, and the same check for all sixteen routes, is on the routes atlas.

How to read these numbers

• Ascent is smoothed over 100 m. Unsmoothed, a 5 m terrain model adds hundreds of metres of climbing the road does not have, which is most of why two published figures for the same ride disagree.
• The distance is our own measurement. The Consell’s figure is 96.0 km, and we use it only to check ours.
• The signs are the authority for what is standing on the road today. Signage changes faster than any publication, and the Consell's own page for this route is linked below.
• 391 m of this route is in tunnel or on bridge, where the elevation is interpolated between the portals rather than read off the hill above.
• At km 52.6 the road goes into the tunnel under pas de l'Escala de l'amo en Joan Cerdà, and over the last stretch before the tunnel mouth the terrain model reads the hill above the road. The ascent, the profile and the height by section include that reading, so they come out higher than the road itself climbs. The steepest kilometre and the steepest five kilometres reach into that stretch, so both are left blank until the route is measured again.

Routes near this one

The other signposted routes worth putting in the same week.

• Fars de Migjorn — 147.2 km, 1,013 m Lighthouses, same group
• Serra de Tramuntana nord — 108.7 km, 2,105 m starts 4.9 km away
• Serra de Tramuntana - Central 1 — 181.4 km, 2,013 m starts 29.6 km away

All sixteen official routes, compared →

The Consell de Mallorca’s page for this route · How this site measures and verifies

Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 7 August 2026. Next review due within 180 days.