Best time to visit Formentera

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All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Formentera

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Beach and sea Jul–Sep · fair Jun

Go in Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Oct or Nov — these months score within a whisker of each other; 19C max, 2 rainy days. Aug is the next best.

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Month by month

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	15°	5d	71%	8.5h	good	15C max, 5 rainy days
Feb	15°	3d	76%	9.1h	good	15C max, 3 rainy days
Mar	15°	5d	77%	10.0h	sweet spot	15C max, 5 rainy days
Apr	17°	5d	79%	10.8h	sweet spot	17C max, 5 rainy days
May	19°	2d	81%	12.5h	sweet spot	19C max, 2 rainy days
Jun	23°	1d	83%	13.4h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Jul	26°	0d	81%	13.7h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	27°	1d	78%	12.4h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Sep	25°	3d	75%	10.9h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Oct	23°	4d	73%	9.7h	sweet spot	23C max, 4 rainy days
Nov	19°	6d	71%	8.3h	sweet spot	19C max, 6 rainy days
Dec	17°	4d	73%	8.0h	good	17C max, 4 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at Es Pujols, the island's resort: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from June to September; quietest from October to April.

Then and now

Formentera's December days now average 16.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 1 of 12 months are clearly warmer, 1 clearly cooler.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	14.4°	14.4°	15.7°	17.3°	19.8°	23.7°	27.0°	27.5°	25.8°	22.5°	18.6°	15.8°
2017–26	15.0°	14.9°	15.4°	16.6°	19.4°	23.2°	26.3°	27.2°	25.5°	22.8°	19.2°	16.5°
Change	+0.6°	+0.4°	-0.2°	-0.6°	-0.4°	-0.5°	-0.7°	-0.3°	-0.3°	+0.2°	+0.6°	+0.8°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into Ibiza (Eivissa) (IBZ), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Ibiza (Eivissa).

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Formentera is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Credit and debit cards are widely accepted. Some shops ask for ID, sometimes a passport, before taking a card.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — Not expected; at better restaurants leave 5 to 10% in cash for exemplary service. Round up taxi fares if you like.

Getting around Formentera

Apps — Rides: Bolt, Cabify, FreeNow, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.

Regular buses during the summer season go to all parts of the island from the port, where most visitors arrive by ferry, but are less frequent during the winter months. Normally they leave every half hour. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Formentera, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — 112 (any emergency).
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Formentera in pictures

Vinyes a Formentera — i

Vriullop, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Formentera is like

Formentera is the smallest and southernmost of Spain's Balearic Islands. The island is flat and sandy with magnificent, unspoilt beaches. There are a few places where the land rises to present spectacular cliffs to the sea. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: On Formentera, you must see underwater. All of the waters are perfectly transparent, and with goggles and a snorkel, you can see all the beautiful fish and the bottom of the waters. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: The only other destinations on Formentera are the almost Caribbean beaches. Generally, they are pretty empty (especially compared to Ibiza), with clean sands and clean, transparent water. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Getting to Formentera is quite easy, as you can catch a ferry-boat from the Spanish mainland with your car from either Barcelona, Valencia or Denia to Ibiza (Eivissa) and from there catch another ferry to Formentera. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: There appears to be very little crime on Formentera (especially compared to Ibiza). The most common type of crime is petty theft of small items such as jewelry and documents, but this is still in very small numbers. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Formentera, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Formentera

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Kind of place

Formentera is in Spain, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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