What you can see on the Cala Mesquida webcam
The camera is a live video stream from Playas de Capdepera, looking across the sand to the open sea. A 24-hour time-lapse of Cala Mesquida, shown after the live picture, lets you scroll back through the day: if you check in late, you can still see when the crowds arrived or when the waves began to build.
Cala Mesquida beach webcam
A few miles north of Cala Ratjada, Cala Mesquida is a wide beach backed by dunes and open to the north. This camera looks out over the sand, with rows of straw parasols, a lifeguard tower and a beach hut, to the sea and a rocky point on the right.
Being exposed to the north, Cala Mesquida catches every swell, and the camera often shows lines of white surf even when the bays to the south are calm. It is the place to check for waves, and for whether the lifeguards have the red flag up.
Sand, dunes and a protected coast
The beach takes its name from Sa Mesquida de Dalt, an old country estate, and is also known as S'Arenal de sa Mesquida. Its 300 metres (980 ft) of white sand are backed by a remarkable dune system, protected for its environmental value, with pine woods behind. It shares the protection of its neighbours: an area of special natural interest since 1991, it has been inside the Llevant natural park since the park was enlarged in 2023.
Strong waves and a steep beach
Cala Mesquida is a very different beach from Cala Agulla, just over the hill. Where Agulla shelves gently, the sand here drops away steeply, and the council's own survey of its beaches rates the waves as strong, arriving from the north and north-east, with rip currents along the shore when they run. In calm summer weather it is a fine beach for a swim; when the swell is up it needs respect, and in the bathing season lifeguards are on duty.
When to watch Cala Mesquida
Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. The beach faces north, so the camera, looking out to sea, has the sun behind it through the middle of the day, when the colour of the water shows best; early and late in summer the light comes in low from the sides. Summer brings the parasols and the crowds; the rest of the year it is far quieter.
Around Cala Mesquida
A path climbs from the beach through the woods to the Coll de Marina and drops down the other side to Cala Agulla, and the Cala Agulla webcams show that beach from the sand and from its headland. The hill between the two rises to 273 m (896 ft) at Son Jaumell, crowned by an old watchtower. Further west, in the municipality of Artà, the coves of Cala Torta, Cala Mitjana and Cala Estreta belong to the public estate of sa Duaia, within the same natural park. Back in town, the Cala Ratjada webcams look over Son Moll beach, the harbour and the seafront.