Cap de ses Salines: the southern tip of Mallorca

Cap de ses Salines is the southern tip of Mallorca. A lighthouse, a road that runs out, low rock and open sea. On clear days you can see the Cabrera archipelago across the channel.

There is no village, no promenade, no terrace. That is exactly the point, and also why you need to arrive prepared. If what you want is a sandy cove with a car park, Mondragó Nature Park is half an hour away.

What is there, and what is not

There is a lighthouse, a car park and coastline. There is no bar, no toilets, no showers, no shade and no drinking water. The nearest of any of it is several kilometres away.

In August the sun comes down with nothing to stop it: the vegetation is low and there is not a single tree to get under. Water and a hat are not optional.

Clear water over the rock at Cap de ses Salines

The water at the cape, 12 August 2025.

Es Caragol, the beach almost nobody walks to

This is the reason to get out of the car. From the lighthouse a coastal path of 1.5 to 2 km takes about 30 minutes. The going is uneven but not difficult.

At the end is a fine white-sand beach roughly 500 metres long and 60 wide, without a single building on it. It is one of the few genuinely wild beaches left on the island, and also a place where nudism is common.

There is nothing there either: no lifeguard, no beach bar, no showers. Only what you carry in.

Where this figure comes from

The beach measurements and the path distance come from a beach directory, not from an official government source. We give them as a guide, not as a measurement. If anyone has checked them on the ground and got something different, tell us.

A boundary almost nobody mentions

The lighthouse is in the municipality of Santanyí. Es Caragol beach, half an hour’s walk away, already belongs to ses Salines. It sounds like a detail off a map, but it explains why searching turns up two different municipalities for what looks like the same place, and why the beach is listed sometimes as “Santanyí” and sometimes as “ses Salines”.

Getting there

By road from the village of ses Salines, heading south until the tarmac ends at the lighthouse. The last stretch is narrow but surfaced.

From Palma it is about 60 km, close to an hour.

When to go

Avoid midday in July and August. Not because of the crowds — there are never as many as in the coves further east — but because there is no shade at any point on the route, and the walk to Es Caragol gets long.

First thing in the morning or late in the afternoon the place is transformed. And out of season it is one of the few spots on the island that is exactly as it is in August, because nothing here depends on anything being open.