Palma Airport to Magaluf Taxi & Transfers
A taxi from Palma Airport to Magaluf costs roughly €52–68 on the meter and takes about 30 minutes across 26 km. It's one of the shortest mainstream transfers on the island, which means the distance is rarely the thing that decides your evening. How many of you there are, and what time you land, almost always matter more.
Distance
By car
Fixed, up to 4
Fixed fare guarantee
Agreed before you fly
timeline From wheels-down to your hotel door
Door-to-door totals — a typical August evening arrival, hotel on the Magaluf side of the strip.
Package coach transfer
1h 40m
+1h 10m vs taxi
A11 airport bus
1h 15m
+45m vs taxi, including the wait
Fixed-price taxi, door to door
30m
Straight to your hotel
info The drive is half an hour whichever you choose. Everything on top of that is queueing, loading and other people's hotels.
How much is a taxi from Palma Airport to Magaluf?
Mallorca has run a single island-wide reference tariff since 2025, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. There are two bands. Tariff 1 covers Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 21:00, and starts lower with a lower rate per kilometre. Tariff 2 covers weekday nights from 21:00 to 07:00 and the whole of Saturday, Sunday and public holidays. On top of either sits a one-off airport supplement of €4.65, a minimum airport fare of €16.95, a per-journey supplement of about €3 for a fifth or sixth passenger and about €6 for a seventh or eighth, and slow or stationary time charged by the minute.
Apply that to the 26 kilometres down to Calvià and three fairly different bills appear.
receipt_long Metered fare, Palma Airport to Magaluf
| Your arrival | Tariff band | On the meter |
|---|---|---|
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wb_sunny
Tuesday 15:10, clear road, two of you near Punta
Ballena
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Tariff 1 | €45–52 |
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Saturday 22:30 in August, four passengers and four
cases
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Tariff 2 | €58–66 |
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bedtime
01:20 arrival after a two-hour delay, six
passengers
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Tariff 2 + passenger supplement | €62–72 |
Guide ranges for a metered rank taxi, including the airport supplement. Fares are set by the municipality and revised periodically — treat any single figure online, ours included, as an estimate rather than a quotation.
The short-route trap: the fixed costs don't shrink with the distance
The airport supplement, the minimum airport fare and the per-passenger charges are the same whether you're going eight kilometres or sixty. On a long run they disappear into the total. On a 26-kilometre run to Magaluf they're a visible slice of it — which is why a late-night fare here can be forty per cent higher than a quiet weekday one for exactly the same drive. Compare that with the 58-kilometre run up to Port d'Alcúdia, where the same supplements barely move the needle.
When the meter beats us
Two of you, a weekday early-afternoon landing, no delay, a hotel at the Palmanova end. That run comes in around €45–50 and the rank is genuinely the cheaper option. We'd rather say so than pretend otherwise — on this route the honest case for booking is not always a price case.
What €55 buys
A number that doesn't move — not for a 01:40 landing, not for a Sunday, not for a ninety-minute delay, not for the August changeover. Plus a driver already inside arrivals while the rank queue is still forming outside.
Six, eight or twelve of you? The rank is the problem, not the fare.
Most people arriving in Magaluf aren't a couple with two cases. They're six on a stag weekend, eight cousins on a family fortnight or twelve for a birthday — and that changes the problem completely. Not because of the price per kilometre, but because of the vehicle.
Palma's airport rank is marshalled. You're allocated the next car in line, and marshals won't normally hold the queue while you wait for something bigger unless there's a genuine accessibility need. So a group of eight doesn't get an eight-seater by asking. You get two saloons, from the back of a queue that can run forty minutes on an August evening, and you arrive in two halves — which is precisely the thing nobody plans for.
Eight people, two rank taxis
≈ €116
Two separate metered fares at the evening band, two airport supplements, the queue on top — and a group split across two cars that won't pull up together.
Eight people, one booked van
€80
One vehicle, one fixed price, everyone and every case inside it, driver standing in arrivals before you've reached the concourse. That's €10 each.
That's the whole argument on this route. The bigger the group, the more clearly booking wins — and at some point it stops being a price question and becomes a logistics one.
directions_car Fixed prices by vehicle, Palma Airport to Magaluf
| Group | Vehicle | Fixed | Each |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | Saloon or estate | €55 | €13.75 |
| 5–6 | Six-seat van | €70 | €11.65 |
| 7–8 | Eight-seat van | €80 | €10.00 |
| 9–16 | Minibus | €130 | €10.85 |
Seat counts are people, not people plus cases. Eight passengers with eight large suitcases and eight pieces of hand baggage is a minibus job, not an eight-seater. Telling us at booking costs nothing. Discovering it at the kerb costs an hour.
One person can book and pay for the whole vehicle. Usually simpler than four people trying to settle up at 01:00, and it means the booking carries one phone number the driver can actually reach.
The A11 airport bus vs a taxi vs your package coach
Public transport down this coast is better than most visitors expect. TIB's A11 runs directly from the airport along the Calvià shoreline, calling at Portals Nous, Palmanova, Magaluf, Santa Ponça and Peguera, and continuing to Camp de Mar on the summer timetable. It used to be a summer-only line; TIB has since kept a reduced winter service running, at roughly one bus every seventy-five minutes. Frequency and dates change season to season, so confirm on tib.org before you plan around it.
info All three options, door to door, for a group of four.
| directions_bus A11 bus | airport_shuttle Package coach | local_taxi Fixed-price taxi | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | ≈€5–8 each | Included | €55 per vehicle |
| Door to door | 50–70 min plus the wait | 60–100 min | ≈30 min |
| Runs at 01:00 | cancel No | flight Flight-timed | check_circle Yes |
| Luggage | Hold space, you carry it | Yes | Loaded for you |
| Stops at your hotel | No — nearest stop | Yes, eventually | Yes |
For two people travelling light on a daytime arrival, the A11 is excellent value, and Magaluf's stops are central enough that the walk with a cabin bag is short. Its weaknesses are the predictable ones: nothing overnight, the luggage is your problem, and the per-head saving shrinks fast as the group grows. At eight people the bus costs roughly €56 against €80 for a van that takes half the time and stops at reception. TIB also discounts single tickets paid by card rather than cash, which is worth knowing before you queue at the machine.
My package already includes a coach — should I upgrade?
If you booked through TUI, Jet2 or a similar operator, a shared coach is almost certainly inside the price you've already paid. On this coast the honest answer hinges on one thing: where your hotel sits in the drop-off order. A Calvià coach typically serves five or six hotels across Palmanova, Magaluf and Santa Ponsa, waits at the airport until it's full, then works its way along the front. Being the last stop turns a thirty-minute drive into an hour and three quarters — and that clock starts when you land, not when the coach pulls away.
Stay on the coach if
- check You land mid-afternoon on a weekday
- check There are two of you and no small children
- check Your hotel is early on the route — the detail that matters most
- check You're not in a hurry and the first drink tastes the same at six
Book a private transfer if
- check You land after 22:00, or the inbound already shows a delay
- check There are six or more of you
- check You're in an apartment or villa rather than a big-name hotel
- check You're travelling with young children, a pushchair or a grandparent
info Ask your operator for the drop-off order before you write off a transfer you've already paid for. It's a fair question and reps will usually answer it.
Magaluf or Palmanova — which are you actually in?
They run into each other. The two resorts sit about a kilometre apart on the same continuous seafront, share the same Ma-1 exit and appear interchangeably on plenty of booking confirmations. They are not the same place, and the walk between them — with cases, along the coastal path — is longer than it looks on a map.
Magaluf
The larger of the two, built around Punta Ballena, the main beach and Katmandu Park. Most of the big hotels and all of the nightlife.
Palmanova
Quieter and more family-oriented, with three smaller beaches and a different hotel set. Same exit, same fare, different end of the seafront.
Son Caliu & Portals Nous
Continuing east toward Puerto Portals. Quieter again, more villas and apartments, and a slightly shorter run from the airport.
Journey times are near-identical across all three, so it makes no difference to your fare. It makes a great deal of difference to where your driver waits. Put the hotel or apartment name on the booking, not the resort. If you're heading round the other side of the bay instead, the Playa de Palma transfer is a different run entirely — shorter, and out of the airport in the opposite direction.
How long does it take?
About 30 minutes for 26 km. The route leaves the airport on the Ma-19, skirts the city on the Vía de Cintura and picks up the Ma-1 west toward Andratx, exiting at Palmanova. It's motorway nearly the whole way, with no mountain sections and nothing technical about it.
Two things stretch it. The Vía de Cintura slows badly between roughly 08:00 and 09:30 and again from 17:00 to 19:00. And on a summer Saturday — the island's changeover day — allow 40 to 45 minutes rather than 30. Late-evening arrivals, which is when a large share of this route's traffic lands, usually get the clean run.
Distance
Drive time
Motorway almost throughout
Landing after midnight? This is where the gap widens.
A large share of Magaluf's inbound traffic lands after 22:00, and a meaningful amount after midnight. Cheap evening slots out of Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Dublin all cluster there. That's also the window where the difference between a booked transfer and the rank is at its widest, for three reasons that stack on top of one another.
Supply thins, arrivals don't
After midnight fewer cars are working while charters keep landing. The queue lengthens at exactly the point there are fewest taxis to clear it.
You're on the higher band
Tariff 2 applies from 21:00, so the same 26 kilometres cost more at 01:00 than they did at lunchtime — before any waiting time is added.
A delay costs you twice
If the inbound slips ninety minutes, the fare goes up and the alternatives go down. The last A11 has gone and the rank is at its thinnest.
What a late booked arrival actually looks like
We watch the flight, not the clock. Land at 01:40 instead of 23:50 and the pickup moves with you at no extra cost, with waiting free for 60 minutes after touchdown. Your driver is inside arrivals holding a name board — you don't call anyone and you don't join a queue. The price is identical to the one you'd have paid at two in the afternoon.
Magaluf is being rebuilt — and it changes where a car can stop
Calvià has spent several years reworking the resort's seafront, and two pieces of that programme matter to anyone arriving with luggage. The second phase of the rebuilt promenade, renamed the Paseo Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, opened in late June 2026 and has changed the road layout along the front. And the council has announced a roughly €6.7 million resurfacing and stormwater-drainage scheme covering Punta Ballena and the streets around it, deliberately scheduled to start in November 2026 to keep it out of the high season.
What it means in practice
More of the seafront is pedestrian space than it was, and vehicle access around the strip is tighter — particularly in the evening. A driver will bring you to the closest legal drop-off point to your door, which on a few Punta Ballena addresses now means the corner of the street rather than the entrance itself.
Two things that fix it
Book with the hotel or apartment name and street, not just "Magaluf", and leave a mobile number that will be answered on landing. Between those two, a driver can reroute around a closure before you've cleared the carousel rather than circling the block while you wait outside.
info Works programmes move. Dates above are as announced by Calvià council and are worth re-checking close to travel if you're staying on or immediately behind the strip.
Hotels and apartments we serve in Magaluf
Door to door across Magaluf, Palmanova and the rest of the Calvià coast:
check_circle Apartments and villas are covered exactly the same way. If your accommodation isn't listed, add the address at booking — coverage is by address, not by hotel list.
Going back: Magaluf to Palma Airport
The return is the leg that catches groups out. Early departures from Palma cluster between 06:00 and 09:00, which means a 04:00 or 04:30 pickup — a time when there is no rank activity in Magaluf and nothing passing to flag down. Trying to find two vans on the morning itself is not a plan.
Allow 35 minutes for the drive plus your airline's check-in window — for an 07:00 departure, a 04:20 pickup is comfortable, and rather more than that in August, when Palma's check-in and security together can eat an hour. Book the return when you book the arrival, at the same vehicle size, same fixed €55, and give a mobile number that will genuinely be answered at four in the morning.
Not flying home? We run the same fixed-price service from Magaluf to the Palma cruise port at Estació Marítima, which is the other common departure people forget to book until the night before.
Drive time
Fixed fare
Exact pickup
Early pickups
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Other Mallorca transfer routes
Staying somewhere else on the island, or moving on mid-trip? Each of these has its own fixed price, its own drive time and its own quirks — the northern bays in particular are a very different journey from this one.
Bay of Palma & the port
North of the island
East coast
Fares, tariffs and timetables on this page are guide figures for the 2026 season. Taxi tariffs are set by the municipality and revised periodically; TIB bus times and prices change by season. Confirm live prices with the operator before you travel.