Pharmacies near the cycling routes

Open now vs on duty

These are two different questions, and mixing them up is what leaves a rider standing outside a shuttered door with a bleeding knee. Open now is about one shop’s own timetable: the hours recorded for that pharmacy, compared against the current local time in Mallorca (Europe/Madrid). That is all the open-now filter on this page does. Where we hold no hours for a pharmacy, the listing says so instead of guessing.

On duty is a rota. The Spanish term is farmacia de guardia and the Catalan farmàcia de guàrdia, and those are the words that get you the right page on official Balearic sites. Pharmacies take turns covering the hours when the rest are shut, and which one covers a given municipality on a given day is set by the pharmacists’ association, not by us. At night, on a Sunday or over a public holiday, the rota is the answer and this map is not. We link it rather than copy it: COFIB reserves its content, so there is no accurate mirror of it anywhere, including here.

Pharmacies by area

Coverage follows where people live, not where the good roads go. Palma has by far the densest cluster, which makes it the easiest place on the island to solve a problem before or after a ride — start at pharmacies in Palma. In the north, Alcúdia covers the bay that doubles as the island’s busiest cycling base. Inland, the Es Raiguer and Es Pla market towns you already use as regroup points — Inca, Sa Pobla, Santa Maria del Camí — each carry a few. Manacor, Artà and Santanyí do the same job on the Llevant loops, Llucmajor on the southern plain, and Andratx in the south-west corner.

The Tramuntana is the gap worth planning around. Sóller has pharmacies down in the valley, but along the Ma-10 there are villages where our dataset holds none at all — and an empty result means we have nothing mapped, not that nothing exists. Buy what you need in the valley town before the climb rather than after it, and use the town filter to see what is actually listed on your route. Mallorca’s cycling towns shows what else is mapped where you are riding.

For cyclists

Treat a pharmacy as a supply stop, not a clinic. Head for the centre of the town: on this island they sit around the plaça, on the main through-road or along the port promenade, so the address on a listing plus the map beats circling the outskirts. Take a card, lock the bike where you can watch it, and expect a tiled floor and cleats to disagree.

We do not describe what any pharmacy stocks, sells or advises, and nothing here is medical advice — that conversation belongs with the pharmacist. What matters on the bike is the line between an inconvenience and an emergency, and a pharmacy is only for the first. For a crash, a head injury, chest pain or heavy bleeding the number is 112; the details worth having ready before you dial are on our emergency contacts page. Mid-ride you probably want water refill points or public toilets instead.

Out-of-hours help

For anything outside a pharmacy’s own hours, go to COFIB, the official Balearic pharmacists’ association, and use its own tools:

• Duty pharmacies: cofib.es duty rota — filter by island and municipality.
• Open right now: cofib.es open pharmacies — the “Abiertas Ahora” view.
• Pharmacy finder: cofib.es search
• COFIB switchboard: 971 22 88 88

The site is published in Spanish and Catalan, and there is no data feed behind it. So this is a page to open on your phone at the moment you need it, with the Spanish or Catalan term in hand.