Palma de Mallorca tide times

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived.

Model-derived from a global ocean grid. Useful indication; expect about ±45 minutes on average vs. a local harmonic gauge, individual stations vary widely. See /methodology for per-region detail. Not for navigation.

Conditions as of 06:00 local time. Refreshes daily.

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived. · Not for navigation.

The angler tradition for major/minor fishing windows: major ≈3-hour windows around moon transit and opposition; minor ≈2-hour windows around moonrise and moonset. Times are Europe/Madrid local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Palma sits at the head of the Bay of Palma on the south-west coast of Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands. The tide here is the small Mediterranean signal that the rest of the western Med shares: mean range at the harbour is about 0.2 metres, with spring tides barely topping 0.3 metres and neaps closer to flat. The astronomical signal is genuinely tiny because the Mediterranean is a nearly enclosed basin and the Atlantic tide cannot propagate cleanly through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. What this coast actually responds to on a day-to-day basis is meteorological tide — air pressure changes lift or drop sea level by a few centimetres on a calm day, and a strong tramontana wind from the north or a sirocco from the south can shift water level 20 to 30 cm in a matter of hours. The phenomenon known locally as a rissaga — a Mediterranean meteotsunami driven by atmospheric pressure waves — produces sudden water-level changes in harbours that face open water at the right angle. Ciutadella on Menorca's western coast is the most famous rissaga harbour, but the bays around Mallorca see the same effect at smaller amplitude. Sailors timing harbour exits at Palma's marinas, paddleboarders launching from Cala Major, and snorkellers at Cala Llombards or Es Trenc all read the wider weather pattern more than the tide table. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; Puertos del Estado runs the authoritative Mediterranean gauge network.