Palma International Boat Show 2027

For five days every late April, the Palma International Boat Show takes over the Moll Vell harbour in the heart of Palma de Mallorca — the headline Mediterranean boat show that brings the European sailing-yacht and motor-yacht industries together at one of the great yacht-charter capitals of the western Mediterranean. Running since 1984, the show is one of the largest in-water boat shows in Europe, with around 250–300 exhibitors, 600+ boats on display, and 25,000-plus visitors across the five show days. Unlike the trade-only charter shows that run the same week (MYBA in Sanremo, TYBA in Göcek, Mediterranean Yacht Show in Nafplio), Palma is open to both trade buyers and public visitors.

The 2027 edition runs across 28 April – 2 May 2027: Wednesday is the trade-and-VIP preview day, Thursday through Saturday open to public visitors, and Sunday closes the show. The show occupies the Moll Vell pier in the historic Palma harbour, with in-water displays across the Moll Vell pontoons and on-land exhibitor pavilions adjacent. Palma itself sits inside one of the most concentrated yacht-charter footprints in the Mediterranean — the city holds seven principal marinas within walking-or-tender distance, anchored by Club de Mar Mallorca (the headline superyacht facility, handling vessels to 200+ metres) and the surrounding Real Club Náutico, Marina Port de Mallorca, and STP refit facility complex.

The page below is built around how a charter client should actually approach Palma Boat Show week: where to base the yacht across Palma’s seven principal marinas — with Club de Mar Mallorca the headline luxury position and Moll Vell the working show venue — and how a longer charter pairs show week with cruising the Balearics (Mallorca’s south and west coasts, Cabrera National Park, Ibiza 60 nm south-west, Menorca 40 nm east), or repositions onwards to the wider Spanish, French, or Italian Riviera fleet.

The first reason charter clients book a yacht for Palma Boat Show is the city’s position in the Mediterranean yacht industry. Palma is genuinely the western Mediterranean’s yacht-charter capital — the city operates the most concentrated yacht-services footprint in the region (STP, Astilleros de Mallorca, the Pelegrín refit yards), seven principal marinas, and a permanent international yacht-industry community larger than any single city outside Monaco or Antibes. The Boat Show is one of the few moments of the year when this entire infrastructure runs at peak intensity for a public audience.

The second reason is the sailing-yacht focus. While the major trade-only shows (MYBA, TYBA, Mediterranean Yacht Show, Antigua) lean motor-yacht-heavy, Palma is the Mediterranean’s defining showcase for the sailing-yacht segment — the headline sailing builders (Wally, Baltic, Nautor Swan, Royal Huisman, Vitters, Perini Navi) all use Palma as their primary European show, alongside the major production-and-luxury motor-yacht names. For charter clients interested in sailing yachts specifically — the Wally, Swan, and Baltic charter fleet is meaningful and growing — Palma is the show to attend.

The third reason is the Balearics cruising extension. Mallorca itself sits at the centre of one of the Mediterranean’s most-developed charter regions — the south coast (Cala d’Or, Cabrera National Park), the west coast (Puerto Andratx, Port de Sóller, the Tramuntana cliffs), and the north coast (Pollença, Formentor) all sit within day-cruise range of Palma. Ibiza is 60 nm south-west (overnight passage), Menorca 40 nm east (half-day cruise), the Spanish mainland 130 nm away. Late April delivers daytime highs 19–23°C, water at 17–19°C and warming, with the Balearics charter season opening across early May.

The fourth reason is the dense show-week social calendar. Palma Boat Show week overlaps directly with MYBA Charter Show, TYBA Charter Show, and Mediterranean Yacht Show — the same broker, builder, and yacht-industry community circulates between the four shows across the same fortnight. Many of the headline builder dinners, brokerage receptions, and crew-handover events that happen at the trade-only shows are mirrored at Palma; the city operates as the natural Mediterranean meeting point for the international yacht industry across late April.

Booking timing for Palma Boat Show splits into the standard two decisions: the yacht itself, and the show-week marina slip. Mallorca’s charter fleet is the largest in the Balearics (the wider Balearics fleet runs 3,000+ pleasure craft, with the largest concentration in Palma harbour), but the show-week marina demand is amplified by the parallel MYBA/TYBA/MedYS shows running the same fortnight — the headline Club de Mar Mallorca slips are typically committed by the previous summer.

Practical timeline for the 2027 show:

• Twelve months out (April 2026 for the 2027 edition): The window for Club de Mar Mallorca show-week slips at 30–100+ metre charter yachts. The headline luxury superyacht display slots are committed during this window by exhibiting brokers, builders, and the wider Palma-based corporate-hospitality circuit. Boatcrowd’s pre-allocated Palma inventory is typically committed by the previous summer.
• Six to nine months out (July–October 2026): The window for mid-tier yachts (25–45 metres) at Marina Port de Mallorca, Real Club Náutico, or Port Adriano (15 nm west). The wider Spanish-and-French Mediterranean fleet is fully negotiable for show-week repositioning to Palma.
• Three to six months out (October 2026–January 2027): Standard fleet inventory remains available across most Palma marinas; some last-minute Club de Mar slip availability surfaces. Day-charter availability on smaller motor yachts and sailing yachts opens up.
• Inside three months: Last-minute by Palma Boat Show standards. Club de Mar slips are typically fully committed; alternatives include anchorage off Palmanova or Magaluf, day-charter slips from Marina Port de Mallorca, or yachts based at Port Adriano, Ibiza (60 nm SW), or Menorca (40 nm E) with show-day transit.
• Day-charter on show-days: Sometimes available from Marina Port de Mallorca, Real Club Náutico, or Port Adriano — smaller motor yachts and sailing yachts running show-day hospitality and Bay-of-Palma cruising. Day-charter rates are at peak show-week pricing.

Palma operates one of the most concentrated yacht-charter marina footprints in the Mediterranean — seven principal marinas within walking-or-short-tender distance of each other across the Bay of Palma, plus Port Adriano 15 nm to the west. The Boat Show itself occupies the Moll Vell pier at the heart of the harbour, with the in-water displays running directly off the show pontoons. Charter clients berthed at any of the surrounding marinas have direct walking or tender access to the show floor.

Club de Mar Mallorca — the luxury superyacht position

The defining superyacht marina in the Balearics. Club de Mar Mallorca sits at the western end of the Palma harbour, with the outer pontoons handling yachts up to 200+ metres alongside and the inner berths taking the wider Mediterranean fleet from 25-metre motor yachts upwards. The marina runs full luxury-services infrastructure (the Club de Mar restaurant, the Iberostar Selection Llaut Palma adjacent, the surrounding refit-and-services row) and operates as the headline luxury-yacht venue across Palma Boat Show week. Show-week slips are committed nine to twelve months ahead; about 5 minutes by road or 10 minutes by tender to the Moll Vell show floor.

Moll Vell — the show venue

The historic Old Pier at the heart of the Palma harbour — Moll Vell is the working show venue, with the in-water displays running directly off the pier’s pontoons across the five show days. Outside of show week Moll Vell operates as a working public marina, with transient berths for visiting charter yachts up to about 50 metres. During the show, all slips are exhibitor-prioritised; only show-affiliated charter yachts berth at Moll Vell during the show days.

Marina Port de Mallorca & IPM Marina Palma Cuarentena

The pair of marinas immediately west of Moll Vell along the Palma waterfront — Marina Port de Mallorca and IPM Group’s Marina Palma Cuarentena. Together they handle yachts up to about 80 metres alongside, with deep-water berthing and full superyacht-services infrastructure. About 10 minutes by road or 15 minutes by tender to the Moll Vell show floor. The natural alternative to Club de Mar Mallorca for clients prioritising direct walking access to Palma old town and the cathedral district.

Real Club Náutico de Palma

The historic Royal Yacht Club of Palma, immediately east of Moll Vell at the foot of the Palma Cathedral. Handles yachts up to about 50 metres alongside, with full member-club facilities (the Real Club Náutico restaurant, the swimming pool complex, the long-running Real Club Náutico regatta programme). About 5 minutes by road or walking distance to Moll Vell. The natural choice for clients prioritising the Palma old-town hospitality programme over the western-marina luxury district.

STP & Pelegrín — refit and services row

The cluster of refit-and-services facilities west of Club de Mar Mallorca — Servicios Técnicos Portuarios (STP), the Pelegrín shipyard complex, Astilleros de Mallorca. Not primary charter-yacht berthing venues during show week (the slips are typically committed to refit operations), but practical for charter yachts that combine the show visit with technical-services work on the same trip.

Port Adriano — 15 nm west

The newer luxury marina at El Toro, 15 nautical miles west of Palma along the south Mallorca coast. Opened in 2012 as a Philippe Starck-designed superyacht facility, Port Adriano handles yachts up to about 80 metres alongside, with the wider development (the Marina Port Adriano shopping-and-restaurant strip, the Beach Club Port Adriano) directly on the marina. Practical for charter clients prioritising a quieter overnight base alongside the wider Mallorca Boat Show programme; about 30 minutes by road to Moll Vell, or 90 minutes by tender across the Bay of Palma.

Bay of Palma anchorage

Anchorage options are available across the broader Bay of Palma, particularly off Palmanova, Illetes, and the south-western Mallorca coast. Depths range 8–25 metres with reasonable holding ground in late April. Tender access to the Moll Vell show floor takes 15–25 minutes depending on anchor position. The cost-efficient option for clients without a confirmed show-week slip; coordination with the show’s harbour-master traffic protocols is required.

The natural way to think about a Palma Boat Show charter is as a five-day show-week programme followed by four-to-ten days of post-show Balearics cruising — the Mallorca circumnavigation, the Cabrera National Park, Ibiza, Menorca, or onwards to the Spanish or French Riviera. Late April-early May is the opening of the Balearics charter season — cooler than peak July-August but with cleaner anchorages, lower pricing, and a wider berth-availability window across the islands. Daytime highs 19–23°C, water at 17–19°C and warming through the show window.

• Mallorca’s south coast. The Cala d’Or, Porto Petro, and Porto Cristo coastline running east from Palma — one of the cleanest cruising stretches on the southern Mallorca coast, with the headline Caló des Moro and Cala Llombards anchorages and the Coves del Drac caves at Porto Cristo. The natural two-to-three-day post-show eastern Mallorca anchor.
• Mallorca’s western Tramuntana coast. The dramatic limestone-cliff coastline running north-west from Andratx through Port de Sóller to Cap de Formentor — the UNESCO Serra de Tramuntana mountain-and-coast landscape, with the protected anchorages at Sa Calobra (the headline gorge-mouth bay), Cala Tuent, and Port de Sóller (the historic 19th-century harbour). The natural three-to-four-day post-show western Mallorca circumnavigation.
• Cabrera National Park. The protected archipelago 12 nm south of Mallorca — a National Park since 1991, with limited yacht permits (advance applications required), and one of the cleanest reef-and-seabed cruising waters in the Balearics. Anchorages at the Port de Cabrera main bay are protected and quiet; the natural one-night side trip for charter clients running a longer programme.
• Ibiza. 60 nm south-west of Palma — an overnight passage. Ibiza’s western anchorages (Cala Bassa, Cala Conta, the Es Vedrà silhouette), Talamanca Bay (the headline Ibiza-town anchorage), and the Formentera crossing (the southernmost Balearic island, with the Es Caló and Illetes anchorages). The natural three-to-five-day post-Palma extension for clients running the Ibiza-and-Formentera programme.
• Menorca. 40 nm east of Palma — a half-day cruise. Menorca’s northern coast (Cala Pregonda, Cala Mitjana, Cala Macarella, Cala Macarelleta) holds some of the most-photographed beach anchorages in the Mediterranean, with the Mahón harbour at the eastern end (one of the deepest natural harbours in the world). The natural alternative to the Ibiza extension for clients prioritising quieter, less-trafficked Balearic cruising.
• Spanish mainland & the Costa Brava. 130 nm north-west of Palma — an overnight passage to Barcelona, or further north to the Costa Brava (Tossa de Mar, Cadaqués, Cap de Creus). Practical as the longer-haul post-show extension for clients running a one-way Balearics-into-Costa Brava charter; the yacht repositions for the wider Western Mediterranean summer season.

Palma’s dining scene has expanded substantially across the past two decades — the city now holds five Michelin-starred restaurants and a dense international-and-Mallorquin restaurant footprint that runs across the old town, the Santa Catalina district, and the waterfront. The rooms below are the consistent show-week reservations across the headline fine-dining venues and the more relaxed harbour-side institutions.

The Palma bar scene is denser than the city size would suggest — the old town holds a concentrated row of small-bar institutions (Lonjadalgo, Bar Cuba, Bodega Sa Caseta), the Paseo Marítimo waterfront runs the hotel-cocktail-room circuit, and the wider Santa Catalina district holds the headline craft-cocktail venues. The rooms below are the consistent show-week meeting spots.

Palma’s nightlife scene is materially more concentrated than the Ibiza-and-Formentera neighbours suggest — the city operates a serious old-town and Santa Catalina bar-and-restaurant programme alongside a smaller Paseo Marítimo waterfront club row, and the wider Mallorca-coast beach-club programme (Magaluf, Palmanova, Cala Major) opens for the season in late April. The show-week social calendar concentrates the brokerage industry around the same evening venues for five consecutive nights.

• Builder & brokerage hosted events. The defining show-week nightlife. The major sailing-and-motor-yacht builders (Wally, Baltic, Nautor Swan, Sunseeker, Princess, Sanlorenzo) run yacht-deck cocktail evenings across show week, and the wider international brokerage community layer hosted dinners on top. These are invitation-only; Boatcrowd’s clients with hosted-yacht arrangements typically receive multiple invitations through our brokerage partners.
• La Lonja old-town strip. Palma’s historic old-town nightlife district — the cluster of small bars, restaurants, and late-evening lounges between the Cathedral and the harbour. Running through to 02:30–03:00 across show week; walking distance from the Moll Vell show pontoons and a 10-minute walk from Real Club Náutico. The default late-evening destination for clients without specific builder-dinner programmes.
• Santa Catalina district. The bohemian-design district west of the old town, with a concentrated row of restaurants, cocktail bars, and small-music venues. The Brass Club, the Mercat Gastronòmic, and the wider Santa Catalina dining strip all run extended evening programmes across show week. The natural alternative to the La Lonja old-town scene for clients prioritising a more design-and-craft-cocktail-focused programme.
• Mallorca beach-club opening week. The Mallorca summer-season beach clubs (Nikki Beach Mallorca at Magaluf, the Beach Club Port Adriano, Anima Beach at Can Pastilla) open for the season in late April — the Palma Boat Show week coincides with the season-opening weekend, with the beach clubs running daytime pool-and-DJ programmes that transition into late-evening dining.
• Ibiza weekend trips. 60 nm south-west of Palma — an overnight passage. Some show-week clients combine the boat show programme with one-or-two-night Ibiza extensions, with the yacht repositioning to Ibiza Town or Cala Bassa for the weekend close. Ibiza’s peak summer nightlife runs June-September, but the May shoulder-season operates at a more accessible pace.

Palma Boat Show pricing runs at the upper end of the Balearics shoulder season. Show-week rates with a Club de Mar Mallorca or Marina Port de Mallorca slip typically run 1.3–1.7× the equivalent yacht’s standard late-April rate, with the wider Balearic-and-Spanish charter fleet adding modest show-week markups depending on yacht size. The late-April timing sits before the high-season Mediterranean peak; the yacht-week pricing across the wider Balearics is meaningfully lower than the July-August equivalents.

Standard Western Mediterranean charters include the yacht, full professional crew (captain, mate, chef, full stewardess and deck team), comprehensive insurance, and use of all on-board equipment and tenders — jet skis, paddleboards, sea bobs, water toys. Most charters include the marina berth at the embarkation port; Club de Mar Mallorca and Moll Vell show-week slips are typically charged separately and command a meaningful premium over standard Palma marina rates. Tender shuttle into the Moll Vell show floor from anchored or off-show-marina yachts is included as standard.

Additional costs are APA (typically 30–35% of the charter rate, covering fuel, food, beverages, and dockage), 21% Spanish IVA on charter activities in Spanish waters (one of the higher European yacht-VAT rates — the Spanish charter matriculation-tax framework also applies to certain yachts), Club de Mar Mallorca or Moll Vell show-week berthing where applicable, Palma Boat Show preview-and-exhibitor passes arranged separately through Boatcrowd’s show-week partners, and a recommended crew gratuity of 10–15% paid at the end of the charter.

For clients combining Palma Boat Show with a post-show Balearics cruising programme, the natural booking pattern is a 10-to-14-day charter that embarks in Palma for show week, then heads to Ibiza, Menorca, or runs a Mallorca circumnavigation for four-to-seven days before disembarking in Palma. The late-April-into-May Balearics window is one of the cleanest charter pricing periods of the year before the June-August peak builds.

Palma Boat Show runs in the same week as MYBA Charter Show (Sanremo, Western Med fleet) and TYBA Charter Show (Göcek, Turkish fleet). Some charter clients combine attendance at two of the four major Mediterranean late-April shows by flying between — Palma to Nice (then Sanremo) takes 90 minutes by charter flight; Palma to Antalya (then Göcek) takes about 3 hours. The yacht itself stays in Palma for the week; clients fly out for one-or-two-day visits to the other shows.