Weather in Can Pastilla: forecast and airport readings

1Can Pastilla forecast: the days ahead

The forecast for Can Pastilla is calculated at 39.5371 N and 2.7165 E, close to the western end of the beach. It comes live from MET Norway and runs to day 10.

Because the model works on a grid of about 9 km, the values barely differ from those for Playa de Palma 3.1 km further on. MET Norway's documentation also advises reading wind speed in particular with care on a grid this coarse in areas with complex topography. How far ahead a forecast for the island holds is covered on the page about the Mallorca weather forecast.

2The weather station for Can Pastilla is at the airport

The climate figures for Can Pastilla come from AEMET station B278 Palma de Mallorca, Aeropuerto, at 5 m above sea level. It carries the name of Son Sant Joan airport, whose grounds, according to Wikipedia, begin directly north of Can Pastilla. To the district it is 3.2 km in a straight line to the south-south-west. No place on Playa de Palma is closer to it: the forecast point on the beach is 4.8 km away, El Arenal 6.0 km.

The page on the weather in Palma uses a different station, the one in the harbour. Comparing the 2011 to 2025 averages, nights at the airport station are 3.2 to 4.2 degrees cooler than at the harbour in every month, and days in June, July and August are 1.2 to 1.5 degrees warmer. It is used for Can Pastilla because it is closer. Whether nights on the beach follow the airport or the harbour, neither station measures.

3Can Pastilla climate from January to May

The table shows the 2011 to 2025 averages at the airport station for all twelve months: high and low, rain days and rainfall. The pages about Playa de Palma and El Arenal carry the same table, since they draw on the same station.

Averages of past years, not a forecast. Station: Palma De Mallorca, Aeropuerto (AEMET B278). Fuente: AEMET. Sea: NOAA OISST v2.1, open sea.

January and February: Days reach 15.9 °C in January and 16.2 °C in February. Nights in January and February are the coldest of the year at 4.6 °C each. In January 40.7 mm falls on 5.5 rain days, in February 31.1 mm on 4.9 rain days.

March: In March the high climbs to 18.1 °C, while the night stays cool at 7.0 °C. March has 5.6 rain days, more than April and May.

April and May: April brings 20.9 °C by day and 9.2 °C at night, with 27.3 mm of rain. In May it is 24.5 °C by day and only 2.9 rain days with 25.1 mm. How April turns out across the island is shown on the page about the weather in Mallorca in April.

4Sea temperature in Can Pastilla in winter and spring

In January the sea off Can Pastilla averages 15.4 °C. It reaches its lowest value in February at 14.5 °C, and in March it is barely more at 14.7 °C. After that the water warms up, to 16.3 °C in April and 18.9 °C in May.

For a proper swim the water in May is still too fresh for most people. How summer plays out on the beach is on the page about Playa de Palma.

The values are a NOAA OISST v2.1 satellite analysis for the grid cell at 39.375 N and 2.625 E, 19.7 km south-west of Can Pastilla. The same cell applies to Playa de Palma and El Arenal. Nothing is measured at the shore itself. All the coasts side by side are on the page on sea temperature in Mallorca.

5Can Pastilla at the western end of Playa de Palma

Can Pastilla is a district of Palma within the Platja de Palma district. According to Wikipedia it was built between 1920 and 1925 as a suburb of the city. In Catalan it is also known as Sant Antoni de la Platja, and the foundation stone of the parish church was laid in 1927.

This is where the balneario count starts, with number 15. The protected area of Es Carnatge separates Can Pastilla from Coll d'en Rabassa, and the Ses Fontanelles wetland separates it from the Les Meravelles district. Off Ses Fontanelles, according to the Catalan Wikipedia, the remains of a Roman ship that sank about 1,700 years ago were found in 2019. The Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, with its own marina, was founded in 1934 according to the Spanish Wikipedia.

6How the Can Pastilla figures are made

They use daily values from the airport station from 2011 to 2025 from AEMET OpenData. For the January to May values quoted in the text there are 15 complete years in each case. A day enters the count as a rain day from 1 mm of precipitation.

The monthly averages are the same for Can Pastilla, Playa de Palma and El Arenal, because all three rely on the same station. Autumn and early winter are covered on the page about El Arenal.