Pollença
Pollença is a small town in the north of Mallorca at the foot of the Serra de Tramuntana, with around eighteen thousand residents. The town itself sits inland, six kilometres from the sea, while Port de Pollença lies on the shore — a separate village with a beach and a marina. Six kilometres separate them, and they are two different places.
The north of the island lives differently from Palma: in winter most of what works in summer closes and load falls to the bottom. The airport is an hour away, the hospital 31 minutes. In exchange: the mountains close by, a quiet winter and a price below Palma's. Anyone choosing between the city and the north should come in February. In August the difference is not visible at all.
- Alcúdia · 10 km — the Roman ruins and the town wall
- Sa Calobra · 40 km — the gorge and the mountain road
- Palma de Mallorca · 55 km — the island capital, the airport and the station
Pollença sits in Mallorca, Balearic Islands, right on the water. 25.5% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. The nearest public hospital is a 31-minute drive. For half the places in our base it is 13 minutes or less.
Hospital, terrain, getting around
Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.
Pollença sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 18.9 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Pollença beaches and water quality
sourcePollença has 6 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 10 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 3 of 6 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2025: Playa D’Albercuix Port de Pollenca.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa D’Albercuix Port de Pollenca | 0.3 km | poor | — | 2025 |
| Playa dels Tamarells Port de Pollenca | 1.1 km | sufficient | — | 1991 |
| Playa Llenaireport de Pollenca | 2.4 km | good | — | 1990 |
| Playa Cala Molins Cala Sant Vicenc | 3.2 km | excellent | 17 seasons | 1999 |
| Playa Cala Barques Cala Sant Vicenc | 3.4 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Formentor | 4.6 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 818 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 950 € for a two-bedroom.
The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.
Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Pollença
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 700 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 950 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 240 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 678 €/mo | SERPAVI · 94 m² |
Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.
Schools nearby
estimateInternational schools counted in the base: 1. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.
Renting without a Spanish contract
How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.
- —25.5% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
- —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
- —Stock goes to tourist lets: long leases are scarce and competed for
This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.
Who lives here
INE 2025- United Kingdom926
- Romania462
- Italy451
- Colombia289
- Germany286
- Morocco284
- Argentina237
- France164
- enEnglish~3 000school, doctors or lawyers in the language
- deGerman~2 500
Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.
Winter direct flights from PMI
January 2026/2760 min to the airport- Germany18
- United Kingdom8
- Italy4
- other countries4
- Switzerland3
- Netherlands2
- France2
- Austria1
- Belgium1
- Sweden1
- Denmark1
- Czechia1
- Poland1
Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.
Paperwork and practicalities
From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».
Articles that include this place
- Best time to visit Mallorca: weather, sea, the price of a hotel night and how much of the island is open, month by monthTwelve months on Mallorca from the weather service's normals, sea temperature and Spain's hotel statistics: when nine hotel beds in ten close, why December costs more than November, how September differs from June and what is left of the island in winter.
- Mallorca's beaches by water quality: each beach's record since 1990Every Mallorca beach with an official sampling point: how many seasons in a row its water has been excellent, when it was last poor, and whose record is too short to judge.
- Mallorca or Menorca: winter, jobs, rent and prices, measuredSeven places on the two islands, by state data: how much work is left in winter, what tenants pay, the price per square metre on one basis, who the neighbours are, and how far the hospital is.
- Mallorca or Majorca: one island, two spellings — and what the numbers sayIt is the same island, and the official name is Mallorca. Then the part no spelling guide covers: of the places we cover there, only the capital stays open in winter, and the water varies beach by beach.
- Cost of living in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza: spending, rent and pay from government dataWhat island households spend and on what, what tenants pay in twelve towns on three islands, and what people here earn — with the survey's margin of error, and no guessed baskets.
- Where are the Balearic Islands? Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and FormenteraSpain, not a country of their own. Which island is where and how far from Barcelona and Valencia, why winter splits the islands, the sea month by month, and the water at each island's beaches.
Where to look next
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