7-day sailing itinerary in the Balearic Islands: Ibiza and Formentera

The longest hop is Espalmador → Cala d'Hort (Es Vedrà) at about 14.7 nm; the shortest is Formentera (Ses Illetes) → Espalmador at about 2.1 nm (our reading of the table). Coordinates are OpenStreetMap's, rounded to 4 decimals. For Sant Antoni OpenStreetMap gave an island or area point, not the harbour or anchorage itself, so that leg's distance is approximate.

Coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (OpenStreetMap (Nominatim geocoder), checked 29 Oct 2026).

We found no verified park, mooring or quay fee for the stops outside the marinas above: see what we could not verify.

Fees are examples and are not added together: they depend on the boat's length, the day and where you actually stop. Every other cost of the week, per person: true cost of a week in the Balearic Islands.

• Decree 25/2018: no anchoring on Posidonia (art. 7.1); over Posidonia, only low-impact systems such as individual buoys or buoy fields, or the sand patches inside a buoy field (art. 7.2); the chain and other gear must not touch nearby meadows (art. 7.3); until buoys are installed, anchor only on sand (transitional provision 2). (Govern de les Illes Balears (CAIB))

More on moorings and parks: snorkelling and diving in the Balearic Islands.

Mean air temperature and mean wind at one reference point, Ibiza Town (38.909, 1.432), for this route. Our verdict column applies our best-time rules to that point and to 12 Knots' Ibiza price series (how).

Windiest month: March (12 kn); calmest: July (7 kn) at Ibiza Town (our reading of NASA POWER means). Mean wind is not gusts or sea state. Air temp = NASA POWER monthly mean 2 m air temperature (T2M); wind = monthly mean 10 m wind speed (WS10M), converted from m/s to knots (kn) with 1 m/s = 3600/1852 kn. For each calendar month we average the 2016–2025 values (10 full years). POWER's meteorological grid is ½° latitude by ⅝° longitude (roughly 55 × 50 km at these latitudes), so one cell cannot show local sea breezes or coast-to-hill temperature differences. They are our calculation of average conditions, not a forecast, not gusts, and not sea conditions. Mean wind is lower than the peak winds you will feel on the water. Weather data obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project, funded through the NASA Earth Science Division (pulled 2026-10-28) (NASA POWER, checked 28 Oct 2026). We changed the data: we averaged the monthly values for 2016–2025 and converted wind from m/s to knots (our calculation).

• Best weather: June, July, August, September, October (our rule: warm, and outside the hurricane or wet season where we have a source).
• Sweet spot: September, October (our rule: best weather, and not one of the three priciest months of the Ibiza series).
• Calmest, for families: June, July, August (our suggestion: the calmest best-weather months by mean wind).
• Windiest, for keen sailors: January, March, November (our ranking).

Full month-by-month comparison with prices: best time to charter in the Balearic Islands. Prices here are for Ibiza's series, so the sweet spot can differ from the Mallorca-based page.

12 Knots' average weekly catamaran price for Ibiza is €7,870 in October and €11,687 in July (asking prices, updated October 2026) (12 Knots, checked 27 Oct 2026). All-in per person for 4, 6 or 8 people: true cost of a week in the Balearic Islands.

Yes for a normal charter yacht or catamaran in Mallorca, Ibiza or the Balearics: Spanish law exempts only small craft (motor boats up to 5 m with at most 11.26 kW, sailboats up to 6 m) used by day within 2 nautical miles of a port, marina or shelter, and Spanish-flag boats can be rented to anyone holding a title from an EEA country or one listed in annex IX. More: licence rules for the Balearic Islands. No licence? A skipper costs extra: bareboat vs skippered.

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Ask the base about the route, the boat's draught and its fees before you book; listings and prices on SamBoat are SamBoat's own. We may earn a commission if you book through our links, at no extra cost to you (disclosure).

• Whether Ses Illetes and Espalmador are in the Ses Salines natural park, and its buoy prices.
• Marina prices in Ibiza Town and Sant Antoni.

Distances: great-circle distance between the OpenStreetMap coordinates of each stop on a sphere of radius 6,371 km, converted at 1.852 km per nautical mile (our calculation). A real passage is longer: headlands, channels, tacking. Best months: the best-time rules (methodology). Catamaran berth examples: the marina's printed rate × its printed multihull surcharge (our arithmetic).

• [Secondary source]: From a newspaper, NGO, guide, charter company or community map; not official.
• [Not verified]: We could not confirm it. We leave it open rather than guess, and never add it to a total.
• No label: Read in an official text: government, park or port authority, or an operator's own published price list.

Distances, catamaran berth examples, best months and weather means are our calculation and say so. Fees change and depend on the boat's length, the day and where you stop: check with your charter base.

• Govern de les Illes Balears (CAIB): Decreto 25/2018, de 27 de julio, sobre la conservación de la Posidonia oceanica en las Illes Balears (official), checked 28 Oct 2026.
• OpenStreetMap (Nominatim geocoder): Nominatim search API: coordinates of each itinerary stop (secondary, not official), checked 29 Oct 2026.
• NASA POWER: Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources: Monthly API (T2M, WS10M) (official), air temperature and wind at Ibiza Town, 2016–2025 means, our calculation.
• 12 Knots: Catamaran charter in Ibiza (secondary, prices), checked 27 Oct 2026.

Method: methodology. Data: JSON.

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