Palma de Mallorca tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at Palma harbour in local Madrid time (CET in winter, CEST in summer). The 7-day table covers daily extremes — though for the Mediterranean the swing is small enough that the difference between high and low can be near the resolution of the gridded model on quiet days.

The Mediterranean is a nearly enclosed sea connected to the Atlantic only through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. The Atlantic semidiurnal tide cannot propagate cleanly through the strait, and the basin is too small to host its own significant astronomical tide. Mean range across most of the western Med — Mallorca, the Spanish mainland, Sardinia, Corsica — is 0.2 to 0.3 metres. The eastern basin is similarly small.

A rissaga (Catalan; rissagas in Spanish) is a Mediterranean meteotsunami — a sudden sea-level oscillation in a harbour driven by atmospheric pressure waves coupling with the basin's natural resonance. Ciutadella on Menorca is the most famous case, where surges of 1 to 2 metres can hit in minutes. Mallorcan harbours see smaller versions; the underlying physics is the same. They are not predictable from the tide table — rissaga forecasts come from the Spanish meteorological agency AEMET when conditions look right.

Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Useful for general planning around the bay and the marinas, though for the small Mediterranean signal the gridded resolution sometimes shows more noise than swing. For authoritative Spanish tide data, Puertos del Estado runs the official Mediterranean gauge network including Palma and Ibiza.

No. For piloting in or out of Palma's harbours, transiting the bay, or working the calas use Puertos del Estado's authoritative tide tables, the Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina chart products, and the latest Spanish coastguard notices. Rissaga events override normal tidal predictions and the local Capitanía Marítima publishes specific guidance when conditions look right.