Serra de Tramuntana nord cycling route: 109 km, Sa Calobra

Of the sixteen cycling routes the Consell de Mallorca has signposted across the island, this is the one that contains Sa Calobra. It starts at the roundabout where the Ma-13 meets the Ma-2220 in Alcúdia, crosses the Serra to Lluc, drops 10.0 km to the sea at Sa Calobra because there is nowhere else that road goes, climbs back out, and comes home over the coll de sa Batalla and across the plain. The Consell describes it in 109.4 km of written directions. Below, it is a track you can load onto a bike computer.

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Distance

108.7 km

the Consell publishes 109.4 km — a -0.6% difference

Ascent

2,105 m

19.4 m of climbing per kilometre ridden

High point

722 m

at km 64.2, the top of the Sa Calobra road

Measured climbs

6

3 climbed, 3 descended

Which part of the island

66.5% of this route’s 108.7 km runs in Serra de Tramuntana. It touches two of Mallorca’s six comarques (districts) and crosses a boundary between them twice. The two crossings are the whole story: the route leaves Raiguer on the way up to Pollença and does not come back out until Caimari, so every pass on it is ridden inside one unbroken block of Serra de Tramuntana. The 33.5% outside it is the start out of Alcúdia and the run home across the plain.

A segment that straddles a boundary is counted whole on one side; across this route’s 2 crossings that is at most 191 m.

For the climbs, base towns and other official routes in each area, see the two region pages: Serra de Tramuntana and Raiguer.

Where the climbing is

The climbing is bunched. There is no climb at all in the first ten kilometres, just 47 m of ascent across the plain out of Alcúdia. Then almost half the day’s climbing comes in two blocks twenty kilometres apart: the long drag up to the coll de Femenia, and Sa Calobra, which you reach at km 54.2. That is 50% of the way round, with 1,063 m of the day’s climbing already in your legs.

Ascent and descent both come to exactly 2,105 m, as they should on a loop that finishes where it starts, which confirms the track closes properly.

Three passes, and what the climb databases publish for them

This loop crosses three passes, and quaeldich.de, the German-language climb database that many of the riders on these roads plan from, lists all three. Its figures for the Coll de Femenia look quite different from ours: 7.7 km, 405 m and 5.3%, against our 14.0 km, 485 m and 3.5%.

The difference is where the climb starts. Both measurements end at the same pass, so quaeldich’s shorter climb starts higher up the same road. The arithmetic shows it: 515 m at the top minus 405 m gained puts their start at 110 m. From that altitude our road has 7,983 m left to climb, against the 7,700 m they publish. The last 7.7 km of our own profile gain 422 m at 5.5%, against their 405 m and 5.3%. Measured over the same stretch, the two differ by 17 m of height and 0.2 of a point of gradient.

For three of the four, the published length and our road agree to within 283 m. The fourth is the Coll de sa Batalla. quaeldich starts it «In Caimari (210 m)» and gives 9.5 km from there, while our road from 210 m has 7,575 m to the top, a gap of 1,925 m. An English-language source gives 7.9 km from Caimari, and against that the gap on the same road is 2 m. So for this pass, the English-language length is the one that matches the road.

On height gained it is the other way round: their 369 m from 210 m against our 368 m from the same altitude is a difference of 1 m. quaeldich and our road agree to the metre on how much you climb, and differ by nearly two kilometres on how far you ride to do it.

Pass altitudes: where the map and the terrain model disagree

A pass has its altitude written down in two places: as the ele tag on OpenStreetMap’s own pass node, and as a reading from our terrain model at that same coordinate. 32 passes on Mallorca have both. They mostly agree — the middle disagreement is 1 m, and 28 of the 32 are within five metres, so the few large differences stand out.

Two of the three are on this loop. The Coll dels Reis at the top of the Sa Calobra road sits at +41 m, 2nd of 32; the Coll de Femenia at +22 m is 3rd. Only a saddle on the Formentor peninsula, which this loop does not touch (it is on the lighthouse route), disagrees by more. The third pass here is in line with the rest: the Coll de sa Batalla reads 576 m against 578 m.

The case that matters most is the Coll dels Reis. Almost every source gives it 682 m, but that figure is not well supported: the map and the terrain model agree to within five metres at 28 of 32 passes on this island, and at this one they are 41 m apart. Our terrain model reads 723 m. The full working for that pass is on its own page.

The same list also confirms one of quaeldich’s claims. It calls the Coll de sa Batalla «der dritthöchste Pass Mallorcas», the third-highest pass on Mallorca. Our list of every named pass on a paved road on the island puts the top three in the same order: Túnel de Monnàber 872 m, Coll dels Reis 723 m, Coll de sa Batalla 578 m. The same three passes in the same order, each pair within eight metres.

The climbs on it

A climb is listed only where the track passes both its foot and its summit and covers the right distance between them. You ride 3 of the 6 downhill, and the table marks which.

The roads it uses

The Ma-10 carries 37.0 km of it and the Ma-2141 — the Sa Calobra road, ridden in both directions — 25.3 km. Between them that is over half the route on two roads.

How accurate the GPX track is

A reconstruction is published as a track only if its measured distance lands within 5% of the distance the Consell publishes.

This route passes that test: our 108.7 km against the Consell’s 109.4 km is a -0.6% difference, one of the closest of the sixteen routes. That tells you the track is the right length, and with 88.3% of it on the roads the Consell names, it is very probably the right line. It could still differ from the signs at a junction. If you ride it and find the signs going somewhere else, let us know and we will correct it.

Where to start it from

The route as signposted begins in Alcúdia, and the first 10.6 km run out across the plain before the road starts climbing towards the coll de Femenia — so a base anywhere in that corner of the bay puts you on the loop without a transfer. Staying in Palma instead means riding the width of the island before the route even begins, in both directions.

So the bases that put you on the loop without a transfer are Alcúdia and Port de Pollença,

And a hire car from Palma airport, which is the only sensible way to arrive with a bike box. We do not have a bike hire on the island to recommend yet.

Attribution

• Route itineraries, names, distances and difficulty grades — Fundació Mallorca Turisme (Consell de Mallorca). Facts only: route names, the towns each route passes through, and the distances and grades the Consell publishes — none of its text is reproduced here, and its distances serve as the independent check our own measurement is scored against. Its own legal notice claims every content on the site as the foundation’s exclusive property («Tots els continguts del web són titularitat exclusiva de l’entitat») and states no reuse terms at all, so we take nothing beyond those facts.
• Road centrelines, waypoint coordinates and every OSM id on this page — OpenStreetMap contributors. ODbL 1.0 — the GPX files are a derivative database and carry the same licence.
• Elevation — Instituto Geográfico Nacional, coverage Elevacion4258_5 (5 m). CC BY 4.0 scne.es — free for commercial use with attribution.

Source Fundació Mallorca Turisme (Consell de Mallorca) · checked 6 August 2026The itinerary, the published distance and the difficulty grade come from the Consell's own route page, read on the check date. Every other number here was measured by this site.