Palma de Mallorca festivals: a calendar of fiestas and events through the year

Palma de Mallorca's festivals are not spread evenly: January holds almost all the street fiestas, spring is funfair season, September is about art and December is markets and lights. In summer, the city lives off the beach more than the festival calendar.

We give the usual dates, not those of any particular year. Programmes change with every edition: when there is something to book or a time that matters, check the city council's programme in the weeks before.

Palma festivals calendar, month by month

January: Sant Antoni and Sant Sebastià, Palma's patron-saint festivals

If you can choose when to visit Palma for its festivals, pick the week of 19 January. Sant Sebastià is the city's patron saint and the festival lasts about a week, though everything revolves around two dates.

The revetla of 19 January

The eve is the big night. In the afternoon the foguerons (bonfires) are lit in the squares, first in Plaça de Cort and Plaça Major, and people grill meat and sausages over them: these are the torrades. The grills are public, but you bring the food, so buy botifarró or llonganissa (two Mallorcan sausages) beforehand.

Then come free concerts on stages in Plaça d'Espanya, Plaça de Cort, Plaça Joan Carles I and Plaça Major, into the small hours, with glosa (improvised verse) and traditional dancing at some of them. In Plaça de Cort the Drac de na Coca comes out, the dragon of the legend: according to tradition, a beast killed by Captain Bartomeu Coch in the 17th century, whose body is displayed in the cathedral's museum of sacred art.

20 January and the correfoc

The 20th is a local holiday: many shops close and the cathedral does not open for visits. Do not plan monuments for that day. The festival ends the following Sunday with the correfoc, a parade of devils with fire and firecrackers that sets off from Plaça de la Reina. For children there is Sant Sebastià Petit, in the Sa Riera park.

The programme changes every year; the city council publishes it and visitpalma.com summarises it.

Sant Antoni, 17 January

In Palma, Sant Antoni is not a night of bonfires but the morning of the Beneïdes: the blessing of the animals. Participants gather on the esplanade by the cathedral and parade along Palau Reial, Plaça de Cort, Carrer Colom, Plaça Major and Carrer Sant Miquel to the church of Sant Antoniet. It is mid-morning, free and very photogenic.

February to April: the cathedral's light and the Fira del Ram

The Festa de la Llum (2 February and 11 November). Two mornings a year, the sun shines through the rose window of the apse and projects its light below the opposite rose window, so the two circles form an "8". It happens around 08:30, it is brief and only if the sun is out. The cathedral opens early that day and fills up (more than a thousand people in November), so arrive early and check the notices on the cathedral website.

The Fira del Ram. Palma's traditional funfair, linked to Sant Josep (19 March) since the 19th century. It sets up from late February to late April at the Son Fusteret fairground, outside the centre. Entry is free and you pay per ride; there are 2-for-1 offers and quiet sessions for autistic and disabled visitors. On weekdays it opens in the afternoon, and on Saturdays from 11:00. Go by metro (M1), on EMT bus 10 or, coming back at night, on the N3. Ideal if you are travelling with kids.

On 1 March, Balearic Islands Day, the regional government opens buildings such as the Llotja for free.

May to August: open doors and Sant Joan

On 18 May (International Museum Day), the Palau de l'Almudaina is free for everyone, whatever their nationality. The rest of the year, on the last Saturday of each month at 12:00, there is a changing of the guard in front of the palace, in period uniforms from the reign of Carlos III; it does not take place in August or December and depends on the weather.

The night of 23 June, Sant Joan, is on the city council's festival calendar. Before planning a bonfire or a night on the sand, check that year's municipal rules.

Summer has no big city festival: it is boat and beach season. For an evening plan, see sunset cruises or nightlife.

Palma de Mallorca festivals in September: the Nit de l'Art

The Nit de l'Art opens Palma's art season on a Saturday in mid or late September. From 18:00 to 23:00, the galleries in the centre, Es Baluard, Casal Solleric and the Fundació Miró open for free and people move from one to the next through the streets of the old town. The crowds gather around Es Baluard and the historic centre: start with the galleries furthest away and finish there. In October and November there are usually free guided tours of the exhibitions. The date is announced on visitpalma.com.

To round off any festival night with flamenco, Tablao Flamenco Alma, next to Plaça d'Espanya, has daily shows at 17:30, 19:30 and 21:30 (one hour, with a drink or with a drink and tapas, no dinner).

GetYourGuide sells it from €35 and Tiqets from €40; the tablao's website does not publish a price, so here the platform is the practical route.

October and November: 12 October, Halloween and All Saints

On 12 October, Spain's national day, the Almudaina is again free for everyone. Halloween has no municipal festival as such: the Pueblo Español organises events and the Barca Samba has scheduled a Halloween trip on 31 October to close its season (its night trips are over-18s only). 1 November is a public holiday and the cathedral does not open for visits.

On 11 November the "8" of light repeats in the cathedral. At the end of the month, the city council usually switches on the Christmas lights with an event in Plaça de Cort and Plaça de la Reina.

Christmas in Palma: markets, nativity scenes and the Three Kings

The Fira de Nadal i Reis is not a single market in Plaça Major, as many guides repeat: it is spread across Plaça Major, La Rambla and the Parc de ses Estacions, from late November to 6 January, every day from 10:00 to 21:00. Visit Palma also lists stalls in Plaça d'Espanya, the Porta Pintada and Via Roma. The Pueblo Español runs its own market in the week between Christmas and New Year.

For nativity scenes, the Ruta dels Betlems takes in those at Cort town hall, the cathedral and several convents. The most impressive nativity scene is at the Palau March, next to the cathedral: almost 2,000 pieces, open Monday to Saturday. On the night of 24 December, at Matins, the Cant de la Sibil·la is sung, a chant UNESCO declared intangible heritage in 2010.

On 5 January the Three Kings parade goes out. Watch the cathedral at this time of year: it is closed to visits on 6 and 8 December, 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 6 January.

The official ticket costs €10; GetYourGuide and Tiqets sell it for €11 and Headout for €15. In the Christmas season, buying online gets you the fast lane; under-10s go in free, but only at the desk.

New Year's Eve and the Festa de l'Estendard (31 December)

On 31 December Palma celebrates its civic festival, the Festa de l'Estendard, which commemorates Jaume I's entry into Madina Mayurqa on 31 December 1229. On that day the city council presents its honours. That night, the Revetla de Cap d'Any (New Year's Eve party) is on the municipal calendar; the venue and times of the New Year party are announced each December.

If you are going on New Year's Eve, bear in mind that the Almudaina closes on 24, 25 and 31 December, and Bellver on 25 December and 1 January.

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Remember too that the cathedral has no tourist visits on any Sunday and that most museums close on Mondays. If a holiday catches you in the rain, Palma in the rain shows what opens each day; for all the official prices, see the tickets guide.

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