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Serra de Tramuntana - Sud
2,445 m of climbing in 130.3 km makes this the hardest of the 8 official routes we publish as a track. It goes up Coll de n'Esteve from es Capdellà, Coll de sa Gramola from Andratx and coll de sa Teulera from Estellencs, plus 5 more. It starts in Palmanova, it is signposted on the road, and the Consell publishes it as 126.5 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
- 130.3 km
- Ascent
- 2,445 m
- Ascent per km
- 19 m
- Highest point
- 499 m
- Steepest kilometre
- 7.5%
- Steepest 5 km
- 6.0%
- Grade (Consell)
- Molt alta
Route map
Our rebuilt track drawn over the island, with no map tiles and no third-party request. 130.3 km, starting and finishing in Palmanova.
Which part of the island
93.0% of this route’s 130.3 km runs in Serra de Tramuntana. It touches two of Mallorca’s six comarques (districts) and crosses a boundary between them twice.
Distance ridden in each comarca
| Comarca | Distance | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Serra de Tramuntana | 121.2 km | 93.0% |
| Palma | 9.1 km | 7.0% |
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 in each comarca. The track used is the GPX published 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 2 crossings that is at most 61 m.
Elevation profile
Elevation sampled every 20 m from Spain’s 5 m national terrain model and smoothed over 100 m. Highest point 499 m at km 53.3; lowest 3 m.
What this route is for
Take this one when you want the climbing. 2,445 m of ascent is the most of the 8 routes published here, and it arrives in 130.3 km rather than being spread across a tour.
- 130.3 km takes a full day.
- Five kilometres from km 79.8 average 6.0%.
Ranked against the 8 official routes whose reconstruction passes both checks: the most for ascent, the 2nd steepest per kilometre, the 4th 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.
Every measured climb this route crosses, in the order it meets them.
| Climb | Direction | Starts at | Length | Gain | Average | Steepest km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coll de n'Esteve from es Capdellà | Up | km 9.8 | 2.2 km | 113 m | 5.1% | 6.1% |
| Coll de n'Esteve from Andratx | Down | km 12.0 | 6.6 km | 168 m | 2.5% | 5.5% |
| Coll de sa Coma from Andratx | Down | km 14.7 | 3.9 km | 154 m | 3.9% | 5.5% |
| Coll de sa Gramola from Andratx | Up | km 17.6 | 5.6 km | 287 m | 5.1% | 6.6% |
| Coll de sa Gramola from Estellencs | Down | km 23.2 | 11.8 km | 218 m | 1.9% | 6.6% |
| es Grau from Estellencs | Down | km 30.8 | 4.2 km | 191 m | 4.6% | 6.6% |
| Coll des Pi from Estellencs | Down | km 33.2 | 1.7 km | 98 m | 5.8% | 6.6% |
| coll de sa Teulera from Estellencs | Up | km 34.9 | 3.4 km | 17 m | 0.5% | 2.9% |
| coll de sa Teulera from Banyalbufar | Down | km 38.3 | 4.2 km | 51 m | 1.2% | 5.3% |
| coll de sa Bastida from Banyalbufar | Up | km 42.6 | 3.2 km | 194 m | 6.1% | 7.5% |
| coll des Vent from Banyalbufar | Up | km 42.6 | 6.1 km | 214 m | 3.5% | 7.5% |
| Coll d'en Claret from Son Ferrandell | Down | km 53.3 | 2.1 km | 104 m | 4.9% | 5.3% |
| Can Costa from Deià | Down | km 59.2 | 6.6 km | 297 m | 4.5% | 7.3% |
| Can Corraca from Llucalcari | Down | km 67.1 | 2.5 km | 78 m | 3.1% | 3.6% |
| Can Bleda from Sóller | Down | km 72.2 | 4.2 km | 199 m | 4.7% | 6.0% |
| Coll de Sóller from Sóller | Up | km 77.7 | 8.5 km | 463 m | 5.5% | 6.9% |
| Coll de Sóller from Bunyola | Down | km 86.1 | 7.6 km | 330 m | 4.3% | 5.6% |
| Coll dels Tords from Establiments | Up | km 109.3 | 7.2 km | 201 m | 2.8% | 5.2% |
| Coll dels Tords from Calvià | Down | km 116.5 | 7.4 km | 160 m | 2.2% | 5.0% |
| coll des Cocons from Calvià | Up | km 125.3 | 2.7 km | 37 m | 1.4% | 3.0% |
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, and it is labelled as a descent. Climbs are never matched by name.Computed from the 122 climbs we have measured, counting each direction up a pass separately.Computed 6 August 2026.
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 2,445 m over 130.3 km does not tell you whether the climbing comes 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 | 221 m | 90 m | 134 m |
| 10.0–20.0 km | 272 m | 208 m | 236 m |
| 20.0–30.0 km | 311 m | 194 m | 360 m |
| 30.0–40.0 km | 124 m | 257 m | 331 m |
| 40.0–50.0 km | 313 m | 144 m | 351 m |
| 50.0–60.0 km | 211 m | 162 m | 499 m |
| 60.0–70.0 km | 78 m | 339 m | 400 m |
| 70.0–80.0 km | 214 m | 207 m | 222 m |
| 80.0–90.0 km | 351 m | 189 m | 497 m |
| 90.0–100.0 km | 20 m | 219 m | 307 m |
| 100.0–110.0 km | 48 m | 74 m | 111 m |
| 110.0–120.0 km | 205 m | 129 m | 276 m |
| 120.0–130.0 km | 76 m | 228 m | 159 m |
| 130.0–130.3 km | 1 m | 6 m | 9 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
These are the roads our rebuilt track actually uses, longest first. 84.4% 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-10 | 58.5 km | 47% |
| Ma-1015 | 14.8 km | 12% |
| Ma-1016 | 11.1 km | 9% |
| Ma-11A | 10.7 km | 9% |
| Ma-11 | 8.9 km | 7% |
| Ma-1031 | 6.4 km | 5% |
| Ma-1110 | 3.5 km | 3% |
| Ma-1140 | 2.9 km | 2% |
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 kept.Computed from the OpenStreetMap road graph, filtered to what a bicycle may ride.Computed 6 August 2026.
A road on this route is shut
A stretch of this route is on closed road — up to 3.2 km of the 130.3 km. The entries below say which road, where along the day it falls, and when.
- Closed — The Ma-11 is closed to through traffic, for maintenance. From km 68.3, for up to 3.2 km Until 19 November 2026 · Overnight, 22:00–06:00
Source Ma-11 — IDEmallorca — Consell de Mallorca · checked 18 October 2026This route rides 8,868 m of the Ma-11, and the stretch on the register runs within 250 m of the route’s own track for 3,207 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.
TÚNEL DE SÓLLER TANCAT AMB DESVIAMENT PER MA-11A (COLL DE SÓLLER), de 22:00 a 06:00 hores de diumenge a dijous en les dates indicades, per tasques de manteniment
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 Palmanova, at the Ma-1C / avinguda de Cas Saboners junction.
The track passes through Palmanova, Sóller and Valldemossa, all of them base towns we cover.
Towns with beds within reach
2 of these 8 towns are on the route itself. The rest are a road transfer away, measured to the point where you join the route.
Towns with beds within 30 km of this route by road, nearest first.
| Town | By road | Joined at |
|---|---|---|
| Palmanova | on the route | — |
| Sóller | on the route | — |
| Port de Sóller | 4.3 km | Sóller |
| es Camp de Mar | 4.5 km | Andratx |
| Peguera | 6.6 km | Andratx |
| Valldemossa | 10.4 km | Deià |
| Palma | 13.2 km | Palmanova |
| s'Arenal de Llucmajor | 25.7 km | Palmanova |
How we got this A route can only be joined at a town that is both one of its own waypoints and one of the 32 towns we have measured a road network from. So every distance printed beside a route is a road distance we had already measured, never a straight line to the drawn track, which is a simplified shape and would mix a second kind of distance in with the first. The town where you join the route is printed next to the figure. A waypoint is matched to a town by OpenStreetMap node id and never by name, so a route that only “runs through” a town carries no distance and there is 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 joining town at all, and its page says so instead of giving a distance it cannot measure.Computed from the routes’ own place waypoints, and our table of road distances between the island’s towns.Computed 6 August 2026.
Staying on the route
Riding this one several days running is easier from a town it actually goes through. Search Palmanova, Sóller and Valldemossa:
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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 126.5 km for this route. Our version measures 130.3 km, a difference of +3.0%.
It is a circuit, and our version returns to its start at the same point.
84.4% 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 126.5 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.
- 179 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.
- Serra de Tramuntana - Central 1 — 181.4 km, 2,013 m
- Serra de Tramuntana nord — 108.7 km, 2,105 m
- Ermites del Pla — 138.7 km, 1,725 m
All sixteen official routes, compared →
Serra de Tramuntana - Sud 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.