Everyone arrives in Menorca looking for a map, and almost every one in circulation is the same: the outline of the island, twenty icons and no answer to the questions that actually matter. Which cove do I choose today, with this wind? Where does the sun set this evening, and where is the last drink afterwards? In what order do you see the island without spending the day in the car?

We have preferred to draw less and answer more. These six maps are made on the island, from verified data, and share one conviction: a good map is not the one that marks the most, but the one that spares you unnecessary decisions. Five are living tools of this house, consulted and kept current; the sixth is an editorial map of names and dates. None of them folds, and that is their advantage: they change when the island does.

The essentials, at a glance

  • Where the sea is calm: the daily report on 75 coves and swimming spots, based on the wind forecast for today and the days ahead.
  • Sunsets and drinks: the night map — sunsets, sunrises, beach clubs, cocktail bars and clubs, each with its Google rating.
  • The trip planner: 3, 5 and 7-day itineraries chained by proximity, with a margin for the wind and a bad-weather plan-B.
  • Places in Menorca: the island’s index, with more than 150 entries per language — coves with their access and parking, tables, monuments.
  • The 2026 fine-dining map: Repsol Suns, Michelin Keys and the guide’s eleven recommended restaurants, with dates.
  • What’s on: festivals, concerts and markets, kept current, with a page of its own for every date.

Which cove today? The daily report on the sea

In Menorca the wind rules: when the Tramuntana blows from the north, the south lies sheltered; when the southerly picks up, you look north. Choosing your coast by the day’s wind is the gesture that marks out those who know the island, and Where the sea is calm turns it into a map: every morning it crosses the official AEMET forecast with the orientation of each of the 75 coves and swimming spots we cover, and estimates their shelter for today and the days ahead, in morning and afternoon slots. It also flags, with a separate marker, the coves towards which the wind has been pushing jellyfish for hours.

One piece of honesty that matters to us: the report estimates the calm of the sea, not the safety of swimming. Once you arrive, the flags and the lifeguards always have the final word. The methodology is published in full, with no secrets, in how we calculate calm.

Where does the sun set, and where does the night go on? The night map

Sunsets and drinks is the island as the light changes: the best sunsets — and the sunrises of the east coast too — the beach clubs, the harbour cocktail bars and where to go dancing. Every point on the map carries its real Google rating and an honest note about the thing almost nobody mentions: on the sunset cliffs and around the harbours, parking at night is a problem, so the sensible thing is not to bring a car.

Below the map sits a detail you end up thanking more than you expect: what time the sun rises and sets, month by month. Because arriving at a sunset with time to spare — not at a run — is the difference between seeing it and living it.

In what order do you see the island? The trip planner

Menorca is a fishbone: everything hangs off the Maó–Ciutadella axis and the coves are side branches. The classic mistake is to zigzag. The planner builds 3, 5 and 7-day itineraries grouping each day by proximity: coves first thing, a margin for the wind and a plan-B held in reserve for the day the weather turns. You adjust it; the final decision is always yours.

If you would rather start from a worked example, our Menorca in 5 days itinerary follows exactly that logic, day by day.

What’s in every corner? The index of places

Places in Menorca is the slowest map of the six, and perhaps the most useful in the long run: the whole island, place by place, in more than 150 entries per language. Coves with their access, their parking and their best hour; tables chosen with judgement; monuments and corners worth the detour. Each entry gathers the practical information you actually need before setting out, and from it you reach the articles that give it context.

It is the map for the second visit, and for the third: when you are no longer searching for “what to see in Menorca”, but for that one place someone told you about.

Where are the great tables? The 2026 fine-dining map

Menorca reaches 2026 with a delicious paradox: it is the only Balearic island without a Michelin star and, at the same time, its kitchen is enjoying the greatest recognition anyone can remember. Our fine-dining map records it with names, dates and verified facts: the eleven restaurants recommended by the 2026 Michelin Guide, the four hotels holding a Michelin Key and the chronology of the Repsol Suns, which adds a new house every year.

It is an editorial map, not an interactive one, and proudly so: what matters here is not the zoom, but knowing which table deserves the booking — and remembering that almost all of them are seasonal, with few covers.

What’s happening this week? The diary

The sixth map is not a map of places but of days. What’s on gathers the island’s festivals, concerts, markets and culture, kept current, and every date has a page of its own with its dates and its venue. It answers the one question no paper map can: not what there is in Menorca, but what is happening in Menorca while you are here.

For the June traveller, that means Sant Joan; for the autumn one, fairs and markets with the island already at its calmest. The diary does not distinguish between seasons: neither does the island.

How to use them together, calmly

Our way of combining them is simple. Before the trip, the planner puts the days in order and the places settle the practical doubts. Once on the island, the sea report chooses the cove each morning; what’s on tells you whether there is a town festival that night; and as the light falls, the night map provides the sunset and the last drink. Fine dining gets booked ahead, because small dining rooms do not wait.

Six maps, one idea: decide less, enjoy more. If this way of looking at Menorca suits you, the Society is its natural continuation: subscribe to the newsletter and we will write to you with the same calm these maps are made with.