Palma Cathedral (La Seu): tickets, terraces and opening times

Palma Cathedral, which everyone on Mallorca calls La Seu, is the sight almost nobody skips: it rises right above the Escala Real (the royal steps), the landing stage next to the Moll Vell (old quay) where boats leave for trips round the bay. What you need to know before you go is short but important: there are two different tickets, there is no sightseeing on Sundays, and beachwear will not get past the door.

Below are the official prices, the real opening times, when the terraces are worth it, what you gain (and what you don't) by buying through a booking platform, and how to fit the visit around a boat trip on the bay.

Palma Cathedral tickets: what each option costs

The cathedral sells two products. Plenty of articles talk about "the €25 ticket" as if it were the standard one, but it isn't: that is the version with the terraces.

There are also discounts of up to 100% that only apply at the ticket office, with ID: Balearic residents and people born in the Balearics, children aged 9 or under, and people with a disability of 65% or more (plus one companion). If you are travelling with young children, don't buy their tickets online: the child discount is only given at the ticket office.

One warning few people read: the cathedral does not allow changes or refunds once a booking is confirmed. It only refunds you if the cathedral itself cancels.

These are the prices the cathedral currently publishes; they rarely change, but check them in the official ticket shop before you pay. The table for the city's other monuments is further down.

Palma Cathedral opening times and closing days

Sightseeing hours depend on the season:

• Summer (from April; until October or November, see below): Monday to Friday 10:00–17:15; Saturday 10:00–14:15.
• Winter: Monday to Friday 10:00–15:15; Saturday 10:00–14:15.
• Sundays: closed to sightseeing all year.

The cathedral's own website gives two different end dates for summer hours (October in one place, November in another), and in some years the switch came in early November. If your visit falls in October or November, check the opening-times page the week before.

Public holidays. On 1 March and 1 May it opens 10:00–14:15. It is closed to visitors on 1 and 6 January, 20 January (Sant Sebastià), Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 15 August, 1 November, 6 and 8 December, and 25 and 26 December.

Early in the morning there are services, not visits: Monday to Friday 08:30–09:45 and Saturday 08:30–09:30. That is why sightseeing starts at 10:00.

The terraces: when the €25 is worth it

The terrace tour takes you up onto the cathedral roofs, with the bay and the old town at your feet. It comes with small print:

• It runs from spring to the end of November; the opening date changes every year.
• Tours leave every 30 minutes and last 1 hour: Monday to Friday 10:00–16:30 (in November, until 14:30) and Saturday 10:00–13:30.
• Places per slot are limited. In summer, book a few days ahead.
• Only for over-9s, who must carry ID, with at least one adult per minor.
• Not suitable for people with vertigo, heart or respiratory conditions or reduced mobility, and not wheelchair accessible.
• The meeting point is inside the cathedral, at the Portal de l'Almoina.

Our view: if you like a view and have a head for heights, the extra €15 is money well spent. With children aged 9 or under, or if you're short of time on a Saturday, stick with the €10 ticket; the interior is what you came to see anyway.

What to see inside: Gaudí, Barceló and the rose window

The central nave is about 44 metres high. The cathedral highlights two modern interventions itself:

• Antoni Gaudí worked on the restoration of the building. The cathedral is currently holding a Gaudí Year: check its website for events when you go.
• Miquel Barceló, the Mallorcan painter, covered the Capella del Santíssim (Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament) in ceramics: a contemporary work inside a Gothic chapel.

The great rose window is about 12 metres across and has 1,115 pieces of glass.

Your ticket also covers the Museu d'Art Sacre (MASM). The audio guide is optional; if you skip it, read up before you go or pick one of the guided tours below.

Skip-the-line ticket or official ticket: which to buy

The ticket on the official website costs €10; GetYourGuide and Tiqets sell the same ticket from €11. What you get by booking ahead through either route is fast-track entry: online buyers use the lane at the Portal del Mirador instead of queuing at the ticket office.

When is that extra euro worth paying? When you want flexibility. Official tickets cannot be changed or refunded; on the platforms, many tickets have free cancellation (on GetYourGuide, usually up to 24 hours before, with a reserve-now-pay-later option). Check the conditions on each listing before you pay, because they are not all the same. To see how each one works, read our reviews of GetYourGuide and Tiqets.

The €11 tickets are the standard visit. If you want the terraces, check the description says they are included before you book.

Best options for the cathedral

1

To go round at your own pace

The best-selling skip-the-line ticket, with more than 17,000 reviews and a 4.6 rating. Practically the official price, with the platform's flexibility.

GetYourGuide

Palma: Cathedral of Mallorca Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket

4.6 (17,716)

from €11Check availability

2

To understand what you're looking at

A 2.5-hour guided walk through the old town with skip-the-line entry included; rated 4.9.

GetYourGuide2.5 hours

Palma: Old Town Walking Tour & Cathedral Skip-the-Line

4.9 (48)

from €42Check availability

3

To combine with food

A 2.5- to 3-hour walking tour with the cathedral and a tasting of local produce; rated 4.8.

GetYourGuide2.5 - 3 hours

Palma de Mallorca: Walking Tour, Cathedral & Local Tasting

4.8 (223)

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If you'll be getting around the whole city, the sightseeing bus sells a 48-hour pass with nine attractions that includes the cathedral (from about €65); we explain it on the Palma hop-on hop-off bus page.

Dress code and visitor rules

This is a working church and the door staff really do enforce the rules. What is not allowed:

• See-through clothing.
• Vest tops that leave your shoulders bare.
• Shorts or skirts above mid-thigh.
• Swimwear, or coming straight from the beach.
• Stag, hen or fancy-dress costumes.

In summer, keep a scarf or a light shirt in your bag: it's what stops you being turned away at the door.

Other rules: no suitcases or bulky bags, and the cathedral has no left-luggage room (its website says bags can be left at the museum, but don't count on it if you arrive with luggage from a cruise ship). No eating or drinking except water, and no animals except assistance dogs.

Accessibility: the cathedral and the museum are accessible for people with reduced mobility; the terraces are not. Wheelchairs are not lent out.

Festa de la Llum: the figure "8" of light on 2 February and 11 November

Two mornings a year, on 2 February (Candlemas) and 11 November, the sun shines through the great rose window over the apse and projects its image onto the opposite inside wall, just below the other rose window. The two circles sit one above the other and form an "8": on Mallorca this is called the Festa de la Llum (festival of light) or "el vuit" (the eight).

The practical side:

• The effect is best around 08:30, shortly after sunrise, and it doesn't last long.
• The cathedral opens earlier than usual to let the public in; the exact time is announced in its events calendar.
• No sun, no eight. If the morning is cloudy, there is no show.
• It draws crowds: in November more than a thousand people have turned up. Get there before 08:30.
• The cathedral streams it live on its website and social media, in case the sky or the timing doesn't work out for you.

There is a smaller version of the effect around the winter solstice, but the cathedral does not publish a fixed date or time for it.

Getting to the cathedral and what to combine nearby

The entrance for all visits is at the door of the Cathedral Museum, on Plaça de la Seu; with an online ticket you use the fast-track entrance at the Portal del Mirador.

• By sightseeing bus: the main City Sightseeing stop, no. 1 (Antoni Maura), is opposite the cathedral.
• From the cruise port: stop 14 of the sightseeing bus (Estació Marítima) is the closest to the terminals; details in our cruise port guide.
• By city bus: Plaça de la Reina, at the foot of the cathedral, is the starting point of EMT lines 25 (to Playa de Palma and S'Arenal) and 35 (to Palma Aquarium).

What's right next door, on foot:

• Palau de l'Almudaina, with its entrance opposite the cathedral: €8 (concession €5), closed on Mondays.
• Banys Àrabs (Arab Baths), about five minutes' walk away, a good short add-on; see our page on the Arab Baths and the old town.
• Escala Real, by the Moll Vell, right below the cathedral: this is where the Mallorca City Boat leaves from (€19, 55 minutes, Monday to Saturday 11:00–17:00), the quickest way to see the cathedral from the water. All departures from the city are in boat trips from Palma port.

Tours and guided visits that include the cathedral

If you'd rather have someone tell you the story of La Seu, these are the bookable options, from a ticket on its own to old-town walks and day trips to Valldemossa:

GetYourGuide

Palma: Cathedral of Mallorca Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket

4.6 (17,716)

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Palma de Mallorca: Old Town Guided Tour & Cathedral Visit

4.1 (56)

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GetYourGuide2.5 - 3 hours

Mallorca: Private Tour with Ensaïmada & Fast Cathedral Entry

5.0 (5)

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GetYourGuide5 hours

Palma de Mallorca: Valldemossa & Cathedral Shore Excursion

5.0 (4)

from €135Check availability

GetYourGuide3 hours

Palma: Old Town Guided Tour with Cathedral Skip-the-Line

4.4 (4)

from €59Check availability

See all on GetYourGuide →Prices checked on 6 October 2026

For the rest of the island, see our day trips from Palma.

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