Does Calvia close in winter?

Calvia's hotel capacity runs from 55,887 bed-places in May to none at all in January.

Which part of Mallorca is open all year?

Palma is the only Balearic tourist municipality that retains substantial hotel capacity through the winter, because it is a working city rather than a resort.

Which Mallorca towns shut down in winter

Q: Which Mallorca towns shut down in winter?

13 of the 14 Balearic tourist municipalities recorded by INE lose their entire hotel bed capacity at the low point of the year, including Calvià, Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Alcúdia, Capdepera, Sant Josep de sa Talaia.

Updated 2026-08-09 · InmoIQ · data from INE

Most people see Mallorca in summer. The question two viewings cannot answer is what the same street looks like in February — and for most of the island's resort municipalities the answer is: closed.

Spain's national statistics institute (INE) publishes hotel bed-places by municipality every month. Aggregating that series gives a plain measure of how much of a town's accommodation is actually open at any point in the year, and the pattern is stark: 13 of the 14 Balearic tourist municipalities lose their entire hotel capacity at the bottom of the season. The one that does not is Palma.

The figures

Municipality	Peak beds	Peak month	Winter low	Low month	Residents	Beds per resident
Calvià	55,887	May	none	January	53,793	1.04
Palma	50,756	July	15,122	January	434,786	0.12
Sant Llorenç des Cardassar	24,319	June	none	March	9,231	2.63
Alcúdia	23,317	September	none	February	21,907	1.06
Capdepera	18,426	September	none	March	13,135	1.4
Sant Josep de sa Talaia	16,586	August	none	April	29,761	0.56
Muro	16,405	September	none	March	8,398	1.95
Santanyí	15,698	September	none	March	13,067	1.2
Ciutadella de Menorca	15,491	August	none	March	32,431	0.48
Sant Antoni de Portmany	12,336	August	none	April	29,132	0.42
Eivissa	10,313	August	none	January	55,337	0.19
Pollença	6,119	September	none	March	17,807	0.34
Formentera	5,397	June	none	April	11,661	0.46
Sóller	2,681	September	none	March	13,882	0.19

Source: INE, hotel occupancy survey (bed-places by tourist point) and the municipal register. Figures are the highest and lowest monthly bed-place counts on record for each municipality.

What the numbers actually mean

Calvià is the largest swing in absolute terms: 55,887 bed-places open in May, none at all in January, against 53,793 residents.

Sant Llorenç des Cardassar is the most extreme relative to its size, carrying 2.63 hotel beds for every resident at peak. A town built around that ratio is a fundamentally different place in November.

Hotel capacity is not the whole story, but it is a good proxy for it. Bars, restaurants, supermarkets and bus timetables follow the beds. When the beds go to zero, so does much of the rest — which is why a village that felt lively in August can have one shop and no restaurant open at Christmas.

Palma is the exception, and it is worth understanding why

Palma holds roughly 0.12 hotel beds per resident — an order of magnitude below the resort municipalities. It is a working city that also receives tourists, rather than a resort with a permanent population attached. That is the structural difference between buying somewhere that has a winter and buying somewhere that does not.

How to check a specific property

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