Puerto Portals (Mallorca)

Location

Portals Nous, Calvia, Mallorca, at 39 31.8 N 002 33.9 E, about 10 km west of Palma, on chart 421A IHM

Operator

Puerto Punta Portals S.A., founded by Klaus Graf and run since 2012 by his daughter Corinna Graf

Opened

4 July 1986, with about 640 berths at launch

Berths

701 on the marina's own pages, 670 in a Spanish port guide of which 182 are for visitors and renters, 650 in local press reporting and 639 on trade listings

Vessel range

8 m to 60 m on the marina's own pages, but the published rate card stops at 38 m by 10 m

Berth sizes sold and priced

8x3, 10x3.5, 12x4, 15x5, 18x5.5, 26x6.5, 30x7.5 and 38x10 metres

Depths

7.5 m in the entrance, which is 40 m wide; about 4 m in the basin, with 5 m quoted as maximum draught by a superyacht directory and up to 7 m described on the long-boat quays

Layout

six concrete finger pontoons of 145 to 250 m, a 575 m main quay and a 190 m secondary quay

Shore power

220 V single phase and 380 V three phase, up to 250 A

Fuel

station selling 98 petrol, Diesel A and Diesel Marine, delivered to the mooring for vessels over 18 m; no price published

VHF

channel 09, manned 24 hours

Identifying mark from seaward

the white 15 m Capitania tower

Concession

renewed for 35 years under an agreement announced by the Balearic government on 31 July 2017, at an annual canon of EUR 2.5 million (EUR 3,085,821 with VAT) against EUR 27.6 million of committed investment

Berth leases

brokers list every berth with a lease expiring 31 July 2031, and the renewal terms for existing holders are not published anywhere

Statutory ceiling

Ley 3/2026, of 27 May 2026, raised the maximum term of a Balearic port concession from 35 years to 50, with existing holders reported as able to apply to extend to that ceiling against fresh investment rather than receive it automatically; nothing published says whether Puerto Portals has applied

Accreditation

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, EMAS, the Q for Tourist Quality and the S for Sustainable Tourism

Airport

Palma (PMI) about 20 km, 18 to 20 minutes by road

What it is, and who owns it

Puerto Portals opened on 4 July 1986 at Portals Nous, about ten kilometres west of Palma in the municipality of Calvia. It was built by Klaus Graf, a German industrialist, for an unglamorous reason: his family kept a motorboat in a Palma marina, the service was poor, and he decided to build a better one. It launched with roughly 640 berths and, by one account of the period, more than ninety bars and restaurants behind them. The concessionaire company is Puerto Punta Portals S.A., registered in the Balearics, and Klaus Graf's daughter Corinna Graf has run it since 2012. The port turned forty in July 2026, a month before this page was published.

The berth count today depends on the source: the marina's own pages say 701 for boats of 8 to 60 metres, a Spanish port guide lists 670 of which 182 are available to visitors and renters, and trade listings say 639. What is not in dispute is that the number has barely moved in forty years. Management has deliberately declined to expand, on the stated view that the marina's manageable size is the product, and the last round of capital went into an underground car park, new commercial floor and environmental plant rather than into more pontoons. That single decision explains almost everything else about the place, including the price and the waiting.

The concession, and the date that governs every berth

On 31 July 2017 the Balearic government announced an agreement renewing the Puerto Portals concession for 35 years. The terms were made public and are specific: an annual canon of EUR 2.5 million, or EUR 3,085,821 including VAT, against EUR 27.6 million of committed investment, valued in the announcement at about EUR 126 million across the full term. The deal ended more than twelve years of litigation between the company and the administration, including EUR 9.1 million of disputed unpaid canon, and it guaranteed the continued operation of the Escuela de Vela de Calvia, which the municipality owns and Puerto Portals manages under social conditions on price and access.

Now the part that matters if you are buying rather than renting. Brokers list every Puerto Portals berth with a lease expiring on 31 July 2031, and one specialist states plainly that the original marina concession term ends on that date, that a new concession has since been granted to the marina, and that little is known about the renewal conditions for existing berth holders. The obvious bridge is the ordinary mechanism: a new thirty-five year title taking effect when the old one expires on 31 July 2031 and running to 31 July 2066. No source Yotters could find states that in terms, so treat it as the likely reading rather than as a fact, and note that the marina having thirty-five years while the berth holder has until 2031 is not in itself a contradiction. Two things have moved since those listings were written. Ley 3/2026, of 27 May 2026, passed by the Balearic parliament on 12 May and in force from 31 May, raised the maximum term of a Balearic port concession from thirty-five years to fifty; coverage of the vote reports that existing concessions, most of them on thirty-five year titles, may apply to extend to the new ceiling against significant fresh investment rather than receive it automatically. Nothing published says whether Puerto Portals has applied. What is genuinely unpublished is narrower than the marina's own term and more useful said narrowly: what happens to an individual berth holder's right when the old title expires on 31 July 2031. If you are buying here, that one unpublished paragraph is the entire transaction, and it belongs at the start of the legal work rather than the end of it.

A 30 metre berth on the Capitania quay sold for EUR 1,850,000 in April 2020 on a lease that ends on 31 July 2031. What happens to that berth holder on 1 August 2031 is the whole transaction, and nobody has published it.

Berth sizes, depths and the limits of the basin

The port is laid out on six concrete finger pontoons of 145 to 250 metres, a main quay of 575 metres and a secondary quay of 190 metres, with a white fifteen-metre Capitania tower as the mark from seaward. The berth sizes the marina sells and prices are 8 by 3, 10 by 3.5, 12 by 4, 15 by 5, 18 by 5.5, 26 by 6.5, 30 by 7.5 and 38 by 10 metres. The advertised maximum is 60 metres, but the rate card stops at 38 by 10, and a Spanish port guide gives the range as 8 to 80 metres. Treat anything above 38 metres as arranged rather than booked, and get it confirmed in writing.

Water is the real constraint here and sources vary, so check your own berth. A Spanish port guide gives 7.5 metres in the entrance, which is 40 metres wide, and 4 metres in the basin. A superyacht directory quotes 5 metres of maximum draught. A third guide describes about 4 metres where the small and medium boats lie, rising to about 7 metres on the long-boat quays. Take 4 metres as the inner-pontoon working figure and confirm specifically if you draw more than around 3.5. Services are uniform across every size: drinking water, 220 volts single phase and 380 volts three phase to 250 amps, WiFi, seamanship and security both around the clock, and a fuel station selling 98 petrol, Diesel A and Diesel Marine with delivery to the mooring for vessels over 18 metres.

The tariff, published in full, which almost nobody does

Puerto Portals prints its whole rate card, and at this level that is close to unique and a real reason to prefer it. The 2026 card runs low season from 16 September 2025 to 31 May 2026 and high season from 1 June to 15 September 2026. VAT at 21 per cent is not included in any figure on it. Low-season nightly rates: EUR 32 for 8 by 3 metres, EUR 35 for 10 by 3.5, EUR 56 for 12 by 4, EUR 107 for 15 by 5, EUR 168 for 18 by 5.5, EUR 229 for 26 by 6.5, EUR 272 for 30 by 7.5 and EUR 540 for 38 by 10. In high season the same berths cost EUR 75, EUR 98, EUR 176, EUR 296, EUR 469, EUR 722, EUR 869 and EUR 1,641 a night.

Monthly and annual rates sit on the same card, calculated on 30 days and 365 days. A high-season month runs from EUR 1,109 for the smallest berth to EUR 33,147 for 38 by 10 metres. The annual rates, all before VAT, are EUR 7,054 for 8 by 3, EUR 9,550 for 10 by 3.5, EUR 18,971 for 12 by 4, EUR 36,360 for 15 by 5, EUR 48,115 for 18 by 5.5, EUR 81,612 for 26 by 6.5, EUR 99,117 for 30 by 7.5 and EUR 204,156 for 38 by 10. Water and electricity are extra and metered at EUR 4.125 per cubic metre and EUR 0.518 per kilowatt hour, except on the three smallest sizes, which pay a flat supply charge of EUR 1.82, EUR 2.38 or EUR 3.29 a day. The 1 June step is steep: a 15 by 5 metre berth goes from EUR 107 to EUR 296 a night overnight, so the last weeks of May are worth building a cruise around.

The resale market, and what a berth is really worth

The annual berth and the bought berth are two different markets, and the numbers tell you which one you want. On the rental side a broker's asking price of EUR 35,000 a year for a 15 by 5 metre berth sits within a few per cent of the marina's own published EUR 36,360, which is a useful cross-check: the private annual market here tracks the card rather than undercutting it. On the sale side, a 30 by 7.5 metre berth midway along the Capitania quay was asked at EUR 1,850,000 after a reduction in October 2019 and sold in April 2020, on a lease running to 31 July 2031. A 10 by 3.5 metre berth has been listed at EUR 104,500 and an 18 by 5.5 at price on application, both to the same date.

Run the arithmetic and the picture is uncomfortable but honest. Imperial Properties, in its 2026 guide to Mallorca berth costs and concessions, reports a 12 metre concession at Puerto Portals trading recently at around EUR 180,000, without a date, an agent or a lease term; with the lease ending on 31 July 2031 that is a little over five years of tenure, against a published rent of EUR 18,971 a year plus VAT. The 30 metre berth sold in 2020 had about eleven years to run at EUR 1.85 million, roughly EUR 164,000 a year, against a current card rate of EUR 99,117 plus VAT. Berth holders also pay an annual service charge that is not published, so the comparison is directional rather than exact, and Balearic transfer tax adds 8 per cent on the first EUR 400,000, 9 per cent to EUR 600,000, 10 per cent to EUR 1 million, 12 per cent to EUR 2 million and 13 per cent above that, so the 2020 sale carried the 12 per cent band on its top tranche. What the numbers show clearly is that nobody buys a berth at Puerto Portals to save on rent. They buy security of tenure, the right to sublet through the marina when the boat is away, and a bet that the concession will be extended.

The 52 Super Series, and a calendar that runs all year

The Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week is the flagship and it opens the TP52 season. The 2026 edition ran 4 to 9 May with a fleet of fourteen boats drawn from the sixteen teams on the circuit, and Takashi Okura's Sled won it from Harm Muller-Spreer's Platoon Aviation and Pieter Heerema's No Way Back after a final-day comeback. The marina directs spectators to the main dock before 11:00 and after 17:00 to see the boats alongside. From here the circuit moves to the Rolex TP52 World Championship at Porto Cervo from 15 to 20 June, then to Lanzarote twice, Marina Rubicon from 20 to 25 July and Puerto Calero from 24 to 29 August, and Valencia from 5 to 10 October, so the Portals week is the one that fills the port and the restaurants at the front of the season.

The rest of the year is unusually full for a Mediterranean marina, and this is genuinely a year-round port rather than a summer one. The Sunset Market runs Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15 July to 13 August. Blue Marina Subaquatic, the marina's own underwater clean-up, falls on 5 September, Cats Revival on 26 September and Puerto Portals Talks on 15 October. The X Dragon Winter Series races 6 to 8 November and again 11 to 13 December, and the twelfth Sankt Martin, a German family festival, lands on 14 November. The Christmas Market runs 12 December to 6 January with more than sixty wooden stalls, an ice rink open daily from 12:00 to 20:00 and a Playmobil exhibition. Outside August it is the busiest the port gets, and it is the reason winter berthing here does not feel like storage.

The restaurants, the showrooms and the rest of the quay

The marina's own commercial guide names the restaurants, and the list is a district rather than a canteen. Flanigan, French-influenced and known for its apple pie since 1987, is the institution. Lucy Wang does sushi and French, Lobster Club is the sea club with the infinity pool, Leo's Grill the steakhouse, Beewi Portals the market-fish Mediterranean, Cappuccino Grand Cafe the all-day room, and Diablito the food-and-music terrace. Add Eat Sicily, Janina for Japanese and Mexican, Krishna Indian Food and Chinese Victory. Corinna Graf put the count at around sixteen restaurants in 2025, and third-party guides also name Ritzi, Tahini and Wellies, so check what is actually trading before you book a table. Most of it stays open through the winter, which is not true of the marinas further west.

The nautical row is the other half of the offer and it is what a buyer or a seller comes for. Azimut Grande Boutique and Azimut Spain by Marina Estrella, Astondoa Baleares, Frauscher Espana, Drettmann Yachts, Clipper Marine for Bavaria and Regal, Argo Yachting, Marine Unlimited, Elegant Yachts Charter, Meros Netyachts, Big Blue Diving and Mallorca Marine Group for charter, brokerage and moorings all trade on the quay, alongside the Escuela de Vela de Calvia and the Regatta Club. The practical consequence is that you can walk from your own berth to four dealer showrooms and half a dozen brokers in ten minutes. Behind it sits Blue Marina, the marina's environmental programme, which is engineering rather than a badge: two desalination plants, a storm water tank, a FLOVAC vacuum wastewater system described as the first in the Balearics, solar generation, LED conversion and robotic anchorless buoys used as regatta marks so the seabed is not repeatedly disturbed.

The honest weaknesses

Four things are genuinely wrong with Puerto Portals and an owner should price all of them. The first is money. A 38 by 10 metre berth in high season is EUR 1,641 a night before VAT and EUR 1,986 with it, and the step up on 1 June is close to threefold across every size on the card. Metered power at EUR 0.518 a kilowatt hour and water at EUR 4.125 a cubic metre sit on top of that, and the annual service charge for a berth owner is not published at all. The second is size and depth. The basin runs about 4 metres on the inner pontoons, the rate card stops at 38 metres, and a yacht much over 45 metres is not a Puerto Portals boat at all, which is precisely the gap Port Adriano was built to fill.

The third is the approach. The basin itself is well protected, but the Spanish port guide that covers it warns specifically to take care coming in when it blows hard from the southeast through south, there are shoals off Illa del Sec on the run down from Palma, and the entrance is only 40 metres wide. The fourth is the land. The port is reached through the residential streets of Portals Nous off the Ma-1, parking is underground and charged, with Helen Cummins reporting the first two hours free in summer and the first four in winter, and the marina states outright that an entry ticket does not guarantee you a space. Puerto Portals publishes no parking tariff of its own that Yotters could reach, so the hourly rate and any daily ceiling are worth asking about before a market weekend. On a Sunset Market Wednesday in August, or any weekend of the Christmas Market, that is a genuine problem, and it is why a lot of owners simply keep a car parked at the port for the whole season.

Who it is for: An owner of a 12 to 38 metre yacht who wants a published price, a restaurant district at the end of the pontoon and every dealer and broker on the island within a ten-minute walk, rather than one who needs depth, length or a yard on the same quay.