The Complete Ibiza Travel Guide

One thing before you start: every place on this map was chosen one at a time, by someone who cared which cove still has room to lie down at noon and which club is worth the door price. Nothing here was lifted off a top-ten list.

Use the top navigation tabs to move between the curated routes, the places worth seeing, where to eat, where to stay and the trips out of town. If you only have a minute, jump to the ⚡ Quick Facts panel: transport, money and timing, in one screen.

About Ibiza: Everything You Need to Know Before You Go

This complete Ibiza travel guide covers the two islands hiding inside one, what a club night really costs before you commit, which coves face the sunset and which stay calm at noon, when the season opens and closes, and how to get around without a rental car you cannot park. Bookmark it before you book the flight.

Ibiza is 150,000 people on an island 40 kilometres end to end, and it has been two places at once for sixty years. One is the strip: Playa d'en Bossa and Sant Antoni, the clubs that put the name on the map and the flight prices that follow them. The other was here first and is still most of the island: pine woods running down to sandstone coves, white villages with one church and one bar, and salt flats Carthage was already working before Rome arrived.

The old town, Dalt Vila, sits behind Renaissance walls above the port and has been UNESCO World Heritage since 1999. You climb in through the Portal de ses Taules, and the ramparts at the top hand you the whole harbour, the ferries, and on a clear evening Formentera lying flat on the horizon.

The season runs roughly May to early October. September is the quiet trade: the sea is at its warmest, the crowds have thinned, and the closing parties start at the end of the month. Outside those months half the island shuts, which is either the point or the problem depending on why you came.

Money is the thing to plan for. A club night with the door, a drink and a taxi lands near EUR 150 a head, and in season Ibiza is genuinely expensive. But the coves cost nothing, the sunset at Cala Comte costs nothing, and a menú del día inland is still about EUR 15.