Balears, Illes · Baleares
Palma
A go-ahead, cosmopolitan commercial hub and capital of the Balearics — a world away from the heaving tourist enclaves of the surrounding bay.
What Palma is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Capital of the newly established Balearic Islands autonomous region since 1983; over 400,000 people.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, five hundred years in the making, with modernista touches designed by Antoni Gaudí, built on the site of the Moorish Great Mosque
Who it suits: City-break travellers wanting Mallorca beyond the resorts
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 11.2°C 3.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.6°C 1.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.7 h/day 6% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 69 12 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,789/m² 72% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,181 12% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 6 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 17 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 443,196
- Born in Spain
- 69.7% 19.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6% 2.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.06 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Palma fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Palma against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 25 min from Calvià, if that's your anchor.
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