Summer gets all the attention, but autumn is when Mallorca’s own calendar takes over: grape harvests, historical re-enactments, sweet fairs and the island’s biggest agricultural show, spread from September to the end of November. There is a fair somewhere on the island almost every weekend, each celebrating what the town grows or makes, from paprika in Felanitx to olives in Caimari and wild mushrooms in Mancor de la Vall.
Whether you’re here for a week or live on the island all year, the fairs are the excuse you need to get out and explore. They take you to villages you might otherwise drive past, with streets closed to traffic, animals to see, often giants and pipers in the square, and plenty to eat as you walk round. The money you spend goes to the farmers, bakers and craftspeople behind the stalls.
Here are the ones worth planning a day, or a whole trip, around. The guide runs month by month, with the main fairs first and the smaller village and harvest fairs after.
Updated for 2026 – Town halls tend to publish full programmes one to two weeks ahead, so check the official link before you set off.
Our picks: the fairs & Fiestas not to miss
If you only make it to a few, these are the ones we’d put in the diary first. In September, the Festa des Vermar in Binissalem for the grape battle. In October, the Fira d’Alcúdia for its Romans and Gladiators, the Fira Dolça in Esporles for a village centre given over to all things sweet, and the last of the Llucmajor fairs for the livestock show. In November, Dijous Bo in Inca, the largest fair on the island, and the Fira de s’Oliva in Caimari, where the village olive press opens to visitors. All have plenty going on for the kids too, from funfairs and pony rides to farm animals, craft workshops and giants.
September: the grape and melon harvests
September opens with Santa Ponça re-enacting King Jaume’s landing and Vilafranca’s melon weekend, then Binissalem’s grape harvest takes over until the end of the month.
Festes del Rei en Jaume, Santa Ponça
26 August-6 September
Santa Ponça re-enacts King Jaume I’s 1229 landing on its own beach: a medieval market, a fire parade with the Dimonis de Calvià, a full historical re-enactment and fireworks over the bay to close. The medieval market and the Trobada de Gegants are the gentlest parts of the programme for small children; the Nit de Foc and the re-enactment itself draw bigger, louder crowds.
Ajuntament de Calvià →
Festa des Vermar, Binissalem
4-27 September, 60th edition
Binissalem’s grape harvest festival, running since 1965: a mass grape fight, a grape-treading contest, a float parade, wine tastings from the DO Binissalem bodegas, and a harvest dinner of traditional noodles. The Batalla de Raïm on 19 September is the one children remember (old clothes and swimming goggles); the wine-focused events are for the adults. Binissalem sits on the Palma-Inca train line, so no car needed.
Our full guide to the Festa des Vermar →
Ajuntament de Binissalem →
Festa des Meló, Vilafranca de Bonany
5-6 September
Vilafranca grows melons and gives them a whole weekend: a Saturday night market with lanterns carved from melons and a fire show called the Melofoc, then the Sunday fair with a heaviest melon contest and tastings. The town hall runs children’s lantern-making workshops in the days around it.
Ajuntament de Vilafranca de Bonany →
Smaller fairs in September
October: Romans, sweets and Spooks
October opens with Alcúdia’s Roman market and closes with Nit de les Ànimes, and there is a fair every weekend in between. If you’re here for October half term, Llucmajor, Felanitx and Inca all have fair days in the second half of the month
Fira d’Alcúdia
2-4 October
Alcúdia’s fair fills the old town with crafts, food, livestock, workshops and music, plus a Roman market beside the walls with gladiator fights and storytelling. Alcúdia is a major resort town in its own right, so this is an easy one to combine with a normal day at the beach.
Ajuntament d’Alcúdia →
Fira Dolça, Esporles
Sunday 4 October, 20th edition
Esporles, in the Tramuntana foothills, turns its centre over to Mallorcan pastry for the day: ensaïmades, crespells, coques, ice cream and chocolate, alongside a cooking demonstration, folk dancing and a mobile play centre for children. The evening before brings the separate Dolça Nit de l’Art, with wine and pastry tastings and live music. It is a small village, so go early for parking and take cash.
Ajuntament d’Esporles →
Fires de Llucmajor
25 September-31 October, 480th edition
Llucmajor has held its autumn fairs since 1546. The two days to know are the Tercera Fira on Sunday 11 October, when a gathering of giants parades from Passeig de Jaume III to Plaça d’Espanya from 10h, and the Darrera Fira on Sunday 18 October, the big agricultural day, with a livestock show from 9h, falconry and a sheepdog display at 11h30.
Ajuntament de Llucmajor →
Fira des Pebre Bord, Felanitx
Sunday 25 October
Pebre bord is the paprika that gives sobrassada its colour, and Felanitx marks the pepper harvest with a fair through the town centre: local produce and craft stalls, giants and pipers, sheepdog demonstrations and fairground rides.
Ajuntament de Felanitx →
Nit de les Ànimes and Halloween
Saturday 31 October, with Tots Sants on Sunday 1 November
Halloween has arrived on Mallorca, but the island’s own tradition is Nit de les Ànimes, the Night of the Souls: families light candles, visit cemeteries and share sweets in memory of loved ones. Towns including Alcúdia and Palma put on free family events.
Our Halloween guide →
Two autumn traditions to look out for
Les Verges (20 and 21 October): the week bakeries and street stalls sell bunyols, small fried doughnuts.
Tots Sants (1 November): Look out for rosaris ensucrats, the sugar rosaries strung with candied fruit (moreoften sweets), hanging in bakery windows, alongside bunyols and panellets.
Smaller fairs in October
November: Dijous Bo and the mountain villages
November fairs move inland and uphill, to Inca and the villages at the foot of the Tramuntana. Bring layers, and keep a wet-weather plan in your pocket.
Fira de Tardor (Pumpkin Fair), Muro
14-15 November
Muro’s long-running autumn fair took on a pumpkin theme in 2007 and it’s stuck: wine, crafts and food stalls, with pumpkins as the centrepiece and a competition for the biggest. After a hot summer the giants were weighed early this year, in September, so November’s contest is for native varieties.
Ajuntament de Muro →
Dijous Bo, Inca
Thursday 19 November
Mallorca’s biggest fair, with roots in a medieval livestock market. The town centre closes to traffic and fills with stalls: livestock and tractors, sobrassada and ceramics, olive oil and embroidery. If you only go to one autumn fair on the island, this is the one.
It gets very crowded by late morning, so arrive early, take the train from Palma and bring a carrier, not a pushchair. Two more weekend fairs lead up to it: the Fira de l’Esport i l’Oci (31 October-1 November) and the Fira d’Època (6-8 November).
Ajuntament d’Inca →
Fira de s’Oliva, Caimari
21-22 November
A small olive fair in a village at the foot of the Tramuntana, just above Inca, running since 1998. Stalls sell olive oil, olives, bread and olive-wood crafts, and the old village oil mill opens to show how it was made. Parking is tight, so arrive for the opening.
Ajuntament de Selva →
Fira de la Mel, Llubí
Sunday 22 November
Llubí’s honey fair: honey, bee products and local stalls in a small village in the centre of the island.
Ajuntament de Llubí →
Fira de s’Esclata-sang i de la Muntanya, Mancor de la Vall
28-29 November
The esclata-sang is Mallorca’s prized wild mushroom, and Mancor de la Vall, a small village at the foot of the Tramuntana, gives it a fair of its own each November.
Ajuntament de Mancor de la Vall →
Smaller fairs in November
What to know before you go
- Go in the morning. The fairs with published times open around 10h. Livestock shows start early (9h in Llucmajor), and you can be gone before the lunchtime crowd.
- Park on the edge and walk in. Town centres close to traffic on fair days. For Inca and Binissalem, take the train from Palma.
- Carrier over pushchair where possible. Alcúdia is manageable on wheels. Dijous Bo and Esporles are easier without, and be prepared for busy streets and cobbled paths.
- Carry cash. Most stalls have card machines these days but many smaller stalls are small producers and prefer cash.
- Know what a correfoc is. Devils run through the streets with fireworks and sparks, usually after dark. It is loud and the masks and make up can be scary. Look for a children’s version (correfoc infantil) on the programme, and you may want ear protection for little ones.
- Plan a café stop. Public toilets are scarce at village fairs.
- Check the date twice. Programmes are published late and can change with the weather. The town hall’s own website or social accounts are the source to trust.
- Mallorca in October with kids →Weather, what’s open and the month’s confirmed events, updated as town halls publish them.
- Halloween in Mallorca →Halloween events for families across the island, added as they are announced.
- Mallorca hotels with indoor pools →Family stays for the October holidays.
- Rainy day activities →The back-up plan if the weather turns.
- Getting around Mallorca with kids →Cars, buses and boats.
Planning an autumn trip around a fair
A fair works as one morning of a wider day inland: Caimari with a walk in the Tramuntana foothills, Alcúdia with an afternoon on the beach, Binissalem with lunch at a winery.
For the rest of the trip, start here:
