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Interior de las Cuevas del Drach

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Coves del Drach

18 °C inside, all year.

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The descent

The entrance, at 30 m.

The real relief above Coves del Drach, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.

depth not publishedEntrance65 m1.0 kmvertical × 26.4depth not publishedEntrance65 m1.0 kmvertical × 57.2

The depth is the one published by those who explored it; the shape of the galleries is a sketch, not a survey. No depth has been published for this cave yet.

30m

Entrance altitude

from the 30 m relief model

18°C

Inside, all year

the yearly average outside, at the entrance

Inside and outside

18 °C inside, all year.

Deep inside, a cave keeps the average temperature of the year outside: about 18 °C here, in January and in August. In August the afternoon reaches 29 °C at the entrance, 10 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket. The best months to escape the heat are from July to August.

outside, at the entrance (30 m)inside
  1. 14°11°Jan
  2. 14°10°Feb
  3. 15°11°Mar
  4. 18°13°Apr
  5. 21°16°May
  6. 26°20°Jun
  7. 29°24°Jul
  8. 29°24°Aug
  9. 26°22°Sep
  10. 23°19°Oct
  11. 18°15°Nov
  12. 15°12°Dec
Inside: 18 °C all yearEscape the heat: Jul–AugWettest: Sep–Nov

Outside: afternoon and night averages for 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) brought to the altitude of the entrance. Inside: the yearly average, which deep parts of a cave keep. Near the entrance it follows the weather a little.

Cave on Mallorca

Coves del Drach is a show cave in Spain. The entrance is at 30 m. It has stalactites and stalagmites and the sea at its mouth. It is open to visitors.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there.

Plan the visit

Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above.

The ground above the cave, with the relief shaded, the line of the section and what people have mapped around the entrance.

The ground above Coves del Drach (Sentinel-2) N 1.5 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6.0 × 6.0 km, north up. The line is the section above. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around the entrance.

  • 24other cave entrances within 3 kmCoves dels Hams, Coves del Drach, Cova Negra and 21 more
  • 4viewpoints within 3 kmPunta des Pagell and 3 more
  • 2marked hiking routes within 3 kmEl Camí IT4TR3 El Camí Illenc: de l'Alguer a Formentera, Cuevas del Drach
  • 33car parks within 2 km
  • 12information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
  • 24bus stops within 2 km
  • 1campsites within 8 kmCampament Hipocampo
  • 153hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmProtur Vista Badia, Lorenzo, Villa Miel and 150 more
  • 78restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • springs within 2 km
  • sinkholes within 3 km
  • caving clubs and spots within 15 km
  • climbing crags within 3 km
  • named waterfalls within 4 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, around the entrance. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

  • Porto Cristo0.5 km in a straight line
  • Cala Millor9.1 km in a straight line
  • Son Servera9.8 km in a straight line
  • Manacor11 km in a straight line
  • Portocolom15 km in a straight line
  • Felanitx17 km in a straight line
  • Artà18 km in a straight line
  • Calonge19 km in a straight line

In our other atlases

What else is around Coves del Drach.

The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.

Coastya7 beaches within 3 km
Port de Manacorsea up to 26 °C · 0.7 kmPlaya Manacorsea up to 26 °C · 0.8 kmCala Anguilasea up to 26 °C · 2.1 kmCala Mandiasea up to 26 °C · 2.2 kmCala Estanysea up to 26 °C · 2.5 kmCala Romanticasea up to 26 °C · 2.7 kmCala Petitasea up to 26 °C · 2.7 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, NOAA, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Month by month

The weather outside, at the entrance.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon141415182126292926231815
Afternoon141415182126292926231815
Night111011131620242422191512
Rain (mm)464440463714102568698352
Rainy days987864251011119
Sun hours/day4.65.47.08.29.511.211.19.97.46.14.44.4
AfternoonAfternoonNightRain (mm)Sun hours/day
Jan141411464.6
Feb141410445.4
Mar151511407.0
Apr181813468.2
May212116379.5
Jun2626201411.2
Jul2929241011.1
Aug292924259.9
Sep262622687.4
Oct232319696.1
Nov181815834.4
Dec151512524.4

Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (30 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.

Photographs

Inside and around.

Edouard-Alfred Martel
Allytravel1957 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Direction caverns "Coves del drach" - panoramio
INDALOMANIA · CC BY-SA 3.0
Covas del Drac - lit stalagmites and stalagtites 01
Kritzolina · CC BY-SA 4.0

Recent years

Wet years, dry years.

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A dry year means a lower river and hotter rock; a wet one, more water in the gorge.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020183%6%133%255%102%196%83%140%110%72%89%101%
2021121%40%94%52%139%104%77%57%141%89%216%55%
202217%24%220%91%70%90%18%96%89%75%68%87%
202359%156%16%18%120%131%56%185%97%63%24%52%
2024125%72%155%116%137%185%48%120%65%113%88%53%
202565%79%251%61%89%12%301%78%92%79%73%224%

130% or more: wet month 70% or less: dry month

Caves nearby.

Coves del Drach

Spain

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 30 mEntrance altitude
  • 18 °CInside, all year

Coves dels Hams

Spain · 1 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 22 mEntrance altitude
  • 19 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Coves d’Artà

Spain · 17 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 30 mEntrance altitude
  • 18 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Coves de Campanet

Spain · 42 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 70 mEntrance altitude
  • 18 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name, type, published depth and length, visitorsWikidata (Q429431) · CC0
The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
ClimateNASA POWER, 1991–2020
Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearbyCoastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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