Spain · Formentera · #6 of Spain's ten by fame
Free on foot, €6 by car, and Ibiza's day-trippers by noon.
How we rated it: nothing lifts it and nothing sinks it. Photo: MrPepanos · CC BY 3.0
Ses Illetes is Formentera's famous strip, inside a natural park: on foot or by bicycle it is free, cars pay €4 to €6 at the entrance and motorbikes €2 to €4. The car park has only 384 spaces and fills quickly in high season; there are 1,132 for motorbikes. A bus runs every half hour from La Savina, €8 return. Formentera is 30 minutes by ferry from Ibiza, which is the problem in peak summer, when Ibiza's day-trippers take the sand. We measured 1,072 metres of it.
Status, dated 2025-11-16: Vehicle entry to the natural park: €4 to €6 for cars, €2 to €4 for motorbikes.
Warmest sea in August. Fewest wet days in June and August. Pick your fight.
One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.
6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.
Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.
Crowded in summer; tables at the restaurants go early.
Nothing on foot or by bicycle. Cars pay €4 to €6 and motorbikes €2 to €4 to enter the natural park.
The bus runs every half hour from La Savina, €8 return, or walk or cycle in for free.
