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Far de Formentor
93.0 km and 1,231 m of ascent, which is a day rather than an expedition. 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. Here it is as all three.
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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
- 13.5%
- Steepest 5 km
- 4.1%
- Grade (Consell)
- Mitjana
The line
The reconstructed track over the island, drawn from our own derived geometry — 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 and crosses a boundary between them 4 times.
Distance ridden in each comarca
| Comarca | Distance | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Serra de Tramuntana | 57.8 km | 62.2% |
| Raiguer | 20.1 km | 21.6% |
| Pla de Mallorca | 15.1 km | 16.3% |
How we got this Every consecutive pair of track points is one segment, and its metres go to the comarca its midpoint stands in — so the answer is a length, not a label. The geometry walked is the GPX this site publishes for the route, which reproduces the route’s own measured distance to within eight metres; the simplified track drawn on the page is not used, because it cuts corners and loses up to 16% of the length. Where a segment straddles a boundary its metres go to one side whole, and the summed length of those segments is published per route as the bound on the error.Computed from the published GPX track and OpenStreetMap’s comarca boundaries (admin_level=7).Computed 6 August 2026.
A segment that straddles a boundary is counted whole on one side; across this route’s 4 crossings that is at most 191 m.
The 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 is the middle of the set: 93.0 km and 1,231 m, at 13 m of ascent per kilometre. It tops none of the measures this site ranks routes on, which is a fair description of a route you ride for the places rather than for the numbers.
- The steepest kilometre averages 13.5%, and it starts at km 51.6.
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 geometry against the 122 climb-sides this site has measured — 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.
Every measured climb-side this route crosses, in the order it meets them.
| Climb | Direction | Starts at | Length | Gain | Average | Steepest km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coll de Can Llompart from Sa Pobla | Up | km 21.2 | 6.0 km | 59 m | 1.0% | 3.2% |
| coll de Can Llompart from Pollença | Down | km 27.2 | 2.4 km | 33 m | 1.4% | 2.1% |
| pas de l'Escala de l'amo en Joan Cerdà from Port de Pollença | Up | km 39.2 | 13.3 km | 227 m | 1.7% | 14.7% |
How we got this A climb is collected when the track passes within 120 m of both its foot and its summit and the distance ridden between those two points is within 30% of that climb’s own measured length. Foot before summit means the route climbs it; the other order means it descends it, which is a different day and is labelled as one. Nothing is matched by name.Computed from the 122 climb-sides this site has measured.Computed 6 August 2026.
A descent is shown at the kilometre it goes over the top: the record carries the summit and the foot, not the point the descent ends, so no range is invented for it.
Where the height sits
The route in ten-kilometre blocks. 1,231 m of ascent over 93.0 km says nothing about whether it arrives all at once, and on this route it does not.
Ascent and descent per ten-kilometre block, with the highest point reached in each.
| Block | Up | Down | Top |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0–10.0 km | 41 m | 41 m | 21 m |
| 10.0–20.0 km | 27 m | 15 m | 22 m |
| 20.0–30.0 km | 108 m | 81 m | 75 m |
| 30.0–40.0 km | 30 m | 70 m | 61 m |
| 40.0–50.0 km | 272 m | 207 m | 207 m |
| 50.0–60.0 km | 376 m | 252 m | 221 m |
| 60.0–70.0 km | 190 m | 332 m | 221 m |
| 70.0–80.0 km | 168 m | 213 m | 208 m |
| 80.0–90.0 km | 16 m | 19 m | 11 m |
| 90.0–93.0 km | 3 m | 2 m | 3 m |
How we got this Ascent is the sum of the rises in a series smoothed over 100 m. Unsmoothed, the model's own vertical noise adds hundreds of metres of climbing that the road does not have — which is most of why published ascent figures for the same ride disagree. Tunnels and bridges are interpolated between their portals, because a terrain model reads the mountain above a tunnel.Computed from IGN Elevacion4258_5 (OGC WCS).Computed 6 August 2026.
The roads it uses
Read off the reconstruction rather than off the itinerary: this is where the track actually ran, longest first. 84.1% of its length is on roads the Consell names for this route.
The roads carrying the most of this route, by distance.
| Road | Distance | Share of route |
|---|---|---|
| Ma-2210 | 38.2 km | 43% |
| Ma-2200 | 16.7 km | 19% |
| Ma-12 | 9.4 km | 11% |
| Ma-2220 | 7.6 km | 8% |
| Ma-3431 | 6.3 km | 7% |
| Ma-3431-SAPOBLA | 4.6 km | 5% |
| Ma-3420 | 2.0 km | 2% |
| Carretera d'Artà | 1.3 km | 1% |
How we got this Between consecutive waypoints the route takes the shortest path in which the roads and camins the Consell names cost their true length, another numbered road costs twice its length, and an unnamed lane costs eight times. Motorways are removed outright, along with anything tagged private, no-access or no-bicycles. A road closed to cars but open to bikes is deliberately kept.Computed from the OpenStreetMap road graph, filtered to what a bicycle may ride.Computed 6 August 2026.
Where it starts
The Consell puts the start at the Ma-12 / avinguda Tucà junction, north of Can Picafort.
The measured track passes through Platja de Muro, Port de Pollença, Port d'Alcúdia, Ca'n Picafort and Alcúdia — all of them base towns this site measures.
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 the route is joined.
Towns with beds within 30 km of this route by road, nearest first.
| Town | By road | Joined at |
|---|---|---|
| Ca'n Picafort | on the route | — |
| Platja de Muro | on the route | — |
| Port de Pollença | on the route | — |
| Port d'Alcúdia | on the route | — |
| Alcúdia | 2.2 km | Port d'Alcúdia |
How we got this A route is entered only through a town that is both one of its own waypoints and one of the 32 towns this site has measured a road network from, so every distance printed beside a route is a road metre-count that already existed — never a straight line to the drawn track, which is a simplified shape and would be a second unit standing among the first. The door is printed next to the figure. A waypoint is matched to a town by OpenStreetMap node id and never by name, so “runs through” carries no distance and has no unit to get wrong; where one settlement is mapped under two nodes — s’Arenal is, because it straddles the Palma/Llucmajor boundary and each half is its own statistical entity — the second id is admitted only after both records have been read and the reasoning written down. The cost is that a route whose waypoints are all villages outside the measured set has no door at all, and its page says so rather than reporting a distance it cannot measure.Computed from the routes’ own place waypoints, and the table of road distances this site measures between the island’s towns.Computed 6 August 2026.
Staying on the route
Riding this one on consecutive days is easier from a town it actually goes through. Search Platja de Muro, Port de Pollença and Port d'Alcúdia on their own measured coordinates:
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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 reconstruction measures 93.0 km — -3.1%.
It is a circuit, and this reconstruction returns to its start at the same point.
84.1% of the distance ran on roads the Consell names for this route.
A reconstruction is published as a track only when it agrees with the published distance inside a stated 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 reconstruction's, not the Consell's. Theirs is 96.0 km and it is the check this one is scored against, never a value copied into the page.
- 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.
Routes near this one
The other signposted routes worth putting in the same week.
- Fars de Migjorn — 147.2 km, 1,013 m
- Serra de Tramuntana nord — 108.7 km, 2,105 m
- Serra de Tramuntana - Central 1 — 181.4 km, 2,013 m
All sixteen official routes, compared →
Far de Formentor on one page
The ten-kilometre splits and every measured climb on the route, formatted to fold into a jersey pocket — plus a note if the reconstruction is ever corrected.
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.