La Patrona in Pollença (Moros i Cristians)
Pollença (North)
On 2 August Pollença re-enacts the pirate battle of 1550: Joan Mas against the corsair Dragut, preceded by a festival week with concerts and the Alborada.
24 July to 2 August 2026
The island's traditional fiestas, sorted by date: fire nights, historical battles, wine festivals and ferias. With dates for this year and next, exact locations and tips for your visit.
Only annually recurring fiestas with history, no club events or one-off shows.
From Palma across the Tramuntana to the east of the island: the key fiestas of every corner of Mallorca.
Getting there, crowds, costs: the practical details most guidebooks leave out.
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Pollença (North)
On 2 August Pollença re-enacts the pirate battle of 1550: Joan Mas against the corsair Dragut, preceded by a festival week with concerts and the Alborada.
24 July to 2 August 2026
Montuïri (Center)
Patron saint festival in Montuïri with the Cossiers: one of Mallorca's oldest ritual dances fills the village lanes on 23 and 24 August.
23 to 24 August 2026
Patron saint festival
Alcúdia honours its patron Sant Jaume with a week of concerts, processions and fireworks. The highlight is 25 July in the old town.
18 to 26 July 2026
Date to be confirmed
Historical festival
On 2 August Pollença re-enacts the pirate battle of 1550: Joan Mas against the corsair Dragut, preceded by a festival week with concerts and the Alborada.
24 July to 2 August 2026
Patron saint festival
Patron saint festival in Montuïri with the Cossiers: one of Mallorca's oldest ritual dances fills the village lanes on 23 and 24 August.
23 to 24 August 2026
Wine festival
Mallorca's big grape harvest festival: grape treading, a grape battle and the Fideus de Vermar dinner stretch across several weeks in September.
5 to 27 September 2026
Date to be confirmed
Food festival
Melon festival in Vilafranca de Bonany: contest for the heaviest melon, tastings and crafts on the first weekend of September.
5 to 6 September 2026
Date to be confirmed
Religious festival
Procession honouring Santa Catalina Thomàs: traditional dress, music bands and Dimonis smashing clay jugs on the cobbles.
6 September 2026
Date to be confirmed
Food festival
Food festival at Cala Ratjada's harbour: cooking stalls, tastings and creative dishes around the llampuga (mahi-mahi), the seasonal fish of autumn.
10 to 11 October 2026
Date to be confirmed
Traditional festival
Saint Ursula's day the Mallorcan way: serenades on the evening of 20 October and freshly fried bunyols on 21 October, celebrated island-wide.
20 to 21 October 2026
Traditional fair
The biggest fair in the Balearics: all of Inca becomes one huge market with farming, livestock, stalls and shop browsing on a Thursday in November.
19 November 2026
Date to be confirmed
Religious festival
UNESCO World Heritage on Christmas Eve: the medieval Song of the Sibyl is performed on 24 December at Midnight Mass in Palma Cathedral.
24 December 2026
Mallorca celebrates all year round: in January the fires of Sant Antoni and Sant Sebastià burn, in May Sóller re-enacts the pirate battle of 1561 at Es Firó, in June the beaches light up for Nit de Sant Joan, and autumn brings wine festivals and the great ferias of Inca and Sineu.
This page collects the island's traditional, annually recurring fiestas with concrete dates, exact locations and practical tips. We update the dates as soon as the municipalities confirm them officially.