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Alcudia Bay

Balearic Islands · Mallorca - North · Raiguer · Port d'Alcudia / Playa de Muro

also known as Badia d'Alcúdia, Badia d'Alcudia, Bahia de Alcudia, Bahia d'Alcudia, Playa de Muro

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The spot
Wind
Forecast
Month by month
Water
Level
The scene
Launch
Schools
Tips
Getting there
Photos
FAQ

Riding essentials

Season

Apr–Oct

Months riders and schools name

How windy

3-4 kt

Character: thermal

Room to launch

Sandy resort beaches fill up in summer. Playa de Muro is narrow, and in spring and summer there is barely room to lay out and pump, let alone walk a kite down. Sa Marina has a small launch and landing beach, so clear the shore fast.

access rules on record, below

Water

flat to small chop

26 °C in summerHardly any waves, very shallow beaches, fine sand and small lagoons

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to intermediate

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Jun Jul Aug Sep

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

45-70 min

Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI)

On the clock

12:00 · 18:00

Nothing in the morning. The thermal builds from around midday, peaks between 12:00 and 18:00 in high season, and eases through the late afternoon.

The marks are the clock times the record names, laid on a 24-hour day. The bar between the first and the last covers those hours; it is not a promise of wind.

Nearbystraight-line distance

Backup spotsWhere riders go when the wind doesn't work here.

Pollensa Bay / Sa Marina
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The spot

The wind is the Embat, a moderate thermal sea breeze that fills in from late morning into the afternoon and stays mostly onshore. Water in the bay is flat to lightly choppy, with very shallow beaches and hardly any waves, which is why the watersports operators around Playa de Muro and Port d'Alcudia teach here. Strong-wind riders will be bored. Families and first-timers get exactly what they came for, from April to October when the thermal is most reliable.

Zoning rules

The catch is the rules rather than the wind: authorized kitesurfing sits in nearby Pollensa Bay/Sa Marina, while a kitesurf practice area is also described at Alcudia Bay/Playa de Muro, and the two do not line up. Confirm the active launch and the swimmer separation with a local operator before you rig on your own.

The wind

locals call it Embat

Direction

onshore

Direction to shore

Onshore from the NE into both Alcudia and Pollensa bays. At Playa de Muro it blows almost straight into the sand, so the only clean way out past the swimmer line is a marked channel; at Sa Marina the angle lets you ride upwind and keep off the shore.

Dominant direction

NE thermal sea breeze in summer; onshore to the Alcudia/Playa de Muro side when blowing into the bay

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

For a 75-85 kg rider on a twin-tip: 12-14 m covers the ordinary 10-15 kt Embat, 15-17 m or a foil kite is what gets you moving on the 8-12 kt days, and 9-11 m is enough on the best 15-20 kt afternoons. Winter fronts from the west and north run 20-30 kt and take 7-9 m.Indicative sizing worked from the local wind figures and general size charts; no local measurement.

Character

thermal

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

8-15

Typical strength

The Embat swings between 3-4 kt and 14-16 kt, averaging 10-12 kt, and reaches 12-18 kt on the better April-October days. Winter and early-spring fronts from other directions are a different sport at 20-30 kt.

A moderate, regular thermal breeze in season. Light by strong-wind destination standards.

The Embat runs most reliably from mid/late April to mid-September; the wider window given is April to October. Winter and early-spring westerlies and northerlies are stronger and gustier and can bring waves, but that is a different spot from the beginner thermal.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

Jan27
Feb26
Mar21
Apr, riders' month7
May, riders' month10
Jun, riders' month5
Jul, riders' month5
Aug, riders' month3
Sep, riders' month7
Oct, riders' month13
Nov20
Dec8

windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+)

Ringed months are the ones riders and schools name: Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct.

27%Jan15°
26%Feb15°
21%Mar15°
7%Apr17°
10%May19°
5%Jun23°
5%Jul27°
3%Aug28°
7%Sep26°
13%Oct24°
20%Nov20°
8%Dec18°

windy days per month (3 h+ at 12 kn+) · water °C below · season highlighted

Modelled from the operational forecast archive at 1.5–7 km (2023-2024), daylight hours only, not a ground station: it resolves thermal, lake and valley winds far better than coarse reanalysis but still tends to understate a strong local thermal.

Every figure, month by monthWindy days · Force 4+ · 12 kn or more · Knots · Wind from · Peaks at · Air · Water · Readings

Month	Windy days	Force 4+	12 kn or more	Knots	Wind from	Peaks at	Air	Water	Readings
Jan	27%	35%	31%	9.2 kt	NNE	15:00	11.4 °C	15.4 °C	62
Feb	26%	39%	32%	9.5 kt	NNE	16:00	11.9 °C	14.5 °C	57
Mar	21%	45%	31%	10.4 kt	SW	15:00	14.1 °C	15 °C	62
Apr	7%	22%	12%	9.1 kt	NE	15:00	15.7 °C	16.8 °C	60
May	10%	24%	16%	9 kt	ENE	15:00	19.3 °C	19.4 °C	62
Jun	5%	15%	8%	9 kt	NE	15:00	24.1 °C	23.1 °C	60
Jul	5%	15%	8%	9.1 kt	NE	16:00	27.1 °C	26.5 °C	62
Aug	3%	16%	11%	9.3 kt	NE	16:00	27.1 °C	27.7 °C	62
Sep	7%	17%	13%	8.9 kt	NE	15:00	23.8 °C	26.4 °C	60
Oct	13%	26%	18%	9.2 kt	SW	16:00	21.4 °C	24.2 °C	62
Nov	20%	28%	27%	9.1 kt	SW	15:00	16.9 °C	20.4 °C	60
Dec	8%	19%	16%	7.8 kt	SW	15:00	13.1 °C	17.5 °C	62

How this is modelledmodelled · 2023-2024

A weather model's cell over this place, not a station on it. Good for comparing places, weaker for one beach.

A windy day has at least three consecutive daylight hours at 12 knots or more. The typical daily max and the direction are columns of the table above, month by month. Highlighted months are the riding season from the spot record.

High-resolution weather model (modelled) · Open-Meteo historical forecast archive — best-match operational model (ICON-D2 / AROME / ICON-EU / GFS by region), not a ground station · 2023-2024

The water

Type

flat to small chop

Standing depth

Very shallow close in. The Sa Marina teaching area is waist-deep, and the first 50 m are standing depth on the bay beaches.

Tides

Micro-tidal Mediterranean water. Sessions here do not depend on the tide, and no spot-specific tidal effect on depth or launch has been published.

Temperature

26 °C summer · 14 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 15–28 °C

Wetsuit

boardshorts or shorty in high summer; long wetsuit commonly used in May-June and September-October; full winter suit for winter sessions

Conditions

Hardly any waves, very shallow beaches, fine sand and small lagoons. The wider north-Mallorca kite area also takes in Sa Marina in Pollensa Bay, where several schools work in shallow, calm water.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

not for advanceds here

The shallow, low-wave thermal setup is what the local schools teach on, and it is the bay's real value: beginner and intermediate flat-water practice. Advanced riders go looking for the stronger off-season winds elsewhere on the north coast.

The scene

What riders come here for

light-wind cruisingwingfoilwindsurf

Who it suitslessonsfamilies

Family resort coastline with organized watersports centers. The kite areas around Sa Marina feel school-heavy and busy once the thermal is working.

Launch and rules

three ways on to the water, and what each one asks of you

With a school or a boat

8 schools name this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: Sandy resort beaches fill up in summer. Playa de Muro is narrow, and in spring and summer there is barely room to lay out and pump, let alone walk a kite down. Sa Marina has a small launch and landing beach, so clear the shore fast.

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

2 spots nearby

All 2 spots within 40 km are under Nearby

Rescue

No kite-specific rescue. Schools cover their own lessons and rentals; an independent rider has no organized cover. A maritime emergency goes to 112 or the free coastguard line 900 202 202, or a VHF distress call on channel 16.

Launch

Use a school or an authorized access area and confirm the current launch with a local operator before rigging.Playa de Muro has a narrow marked channel through the swimmer zone, with bathers on both sides of it for hundreds of metres; most north-Mallorca schools instead work out of Sa Marina in Pollensa Bay, where the channel follows the coastal and maritime authority layout.

Hazards riders report 9 reported

Wind

light thermal wind can drop below planing strength
onshore wind pushing a stopped kite straight back onto a busy bathing beach

Crowds and zones

summer bather crowding restricts usable kite space
summer bathers and resort beach users
narrow Playa de Muro channel with swimmers on both sides for hundreds of metres

Protected areas and rules

protected S'Albufereta bird areas near the Pollensa Bay kite zone with seasonal restrictions

Other

unclear/variable authorized launch rules between Alcudia Bay, Playa de Muro and neighboring Sa Marina
small or narrow launch areas at Sa Marina/Pollensa Bay access points
no room at Playa de Muro in spring and summer to rig or land without flying a kite over people on the sand

Rules & access

1 min read

Authorized kite area

2026: the only all-year authorized kitesurf area on Mallorca is Sa Marina in Pollensa Bay, where nautical sports are permitted only from the beach, via marked channels, at the legally required distance from shore, with a bird-breeding protection protocol on Sa Marina, es Grau and Can Capdebou. Spanish coastal law sets that distance at 200 m from a sandy shoreline and 50 m where the coast is rock, which is what makes the marked channel the only legal way in and out.

Other beaches

Along the Alcudia and Playa de Muro resort beaches, kiting in peak season is not officially allowed, because those beaches are designated bathing areas; a narrow marked channel at Playa de Muro is described as permitted use, with swimmers either side of it.

A local school runs its own teaching area at Playa de Muro, which is a supervised school zone rather than an independent launch.

Current conditions

No bathing-season dates or hours are posted for Alcudia and Muro, so check the signage and a local operator on the day.

Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.

Schools that ride here

Rider tips

Check the thermal forecast and the live webcams around Sa Marina and Playa de Muro before you drive over.
Pack light-wind kites; this is not Tarifa strength.
Do not turn up at 09:00 expecting wind. The Embat needs late morning at the earliest.
In summer, rig only where a school or posted beach zoning makes it clear that kites are allowed.
Stay out of the swimmer areas and use the marked access channels where they exist.
If you only have one kite and you weigh around 80 kg, bring the 14 m: the average Embat is 10-12 kt, not 18.
Sa Marina is the spot with the legal channel. Riding the Alcudia and Muro resort sand in July and August is the version that gets you moved on.

Getting there

Airport

Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI)

Route

Drive or take a transfer/bus from Palma toward Alcudia or Playa de Muro; Sa Marina/Pollensa Bay access points are on the Alcudia-Port de Pollenca side.

Transfer

45-70 min

Cost level

medium

Staying

Large choice of resort hotels, apartments and family accommodation in Port d'Alcudia and Playa de Muro; quieter options around Alcudia old town and Port de Pollenca.

No-wind days

S'Albufera nature reserve · Alcudia old town · Formentor peninsula · SUP · kayak · cycling · boat trips in Alcudia Bay

Photos

FAQ

When is the best time to kite at Alcudia Bay?

The thermal Embat is most reliable from around mid-April to mid-September or October, typically building from late morning into the afternoon.

Is Alcudia Bay suitable for beginners?

Yes, the shallow, low-wave bay is repeatedly described by local schools as ideal for learning and progression, with waist-deep water in the teaching areas.

What is the wind like at Alcudia Bay?

The Embat thermal blows onshore to side-onshore from the NE at around 8-15 knots, usually peaking between late morning and late afternoon.

Are there kite schools at Alcudia Bay?

Yes, several schools operate around Alcudia and Pollensa Bay, including Water Sports Mallorca, Cuatro Vientos Mallorca and Mallorca Kite School.

Are there rules or authorized zones at Alcudia Bay?

Local schools describe Sa Marina in Pollensa Bay as the year-round authorized kite area, with bird-protection rules in part of S'Albufereta from March 1 to July 30, so the current authorized launch should be confirmed with a school or municipality.

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Last updated: August 2026