Cala Millor and Cala Bona live webcam

What you can see on the Cala Millor webcams

Three cameras on the roofs of seafront hotels cover the beach itself. The first looks south along the whole curve of sand to the pine-covered headland of Punta de n'Amer, over the palms and lawns of the seafront gardens; the second looks the other way, north towards Cala Bona and the wooded hills behind it; the third looks down on the quieter southern end, where the sand gives way to low rocks. They are still pictures from the coastal monitoring service of the Balearic Islands, renewed every hour in daylight, and between them they show how busy the beach is and how clear the water is, turquoise over the sand and dark over the seagrass.

The fourth camera is live video from a hotel terrace above the harbour of Cala Bona, with small boats tied up inside the breakwaters, the waterfront terraces in the foreground and the open sea beyond. It is a good place to judge the swell: when waves break over the harbour wall, the main beach will be rough too.

Cala Millor beach webcam: south to Punta de n'Amer

From high on a hotel at the middle of the bay, this camera looks south along the whole beach of Cala Millor. The pale sand runs in a long curve to the low, pine-covered headland of Punta de n'Amer on the horizon, with sunloungers and straw parasols along it and the water turning from clear turquoise in the shallows to deep blue further out; the dark patches under the surface are beds of seagrass. In the foreground are the palms and lawns of the seafront gardens, the promenade, a round fountain and a car park.

It is the view that shows the beach best: how busy the sand is, how far the swimmers are spread along the shore and how clear the water is. The picture is a still image from the coastal monitoring service of the Balearic Islands, renewed every hour in daylight.

Cala Bona harbour, Cala Millor

From the terrace of a hotel above the water, this camera looks down over the small harbour of Cala Bona, at the northern end of the bay of Cala Millor. Small boats are tied up inside two breakwaters, the terraces and sunbeds of the waterfront fill the foreground, and the open sea stretches to the horizon, with a headland to the north.

Its wide-angle lens takes in both the harbour and the sea, so it shows at a glance whether waves are breaking over the outer wall. It faces east, and at sunrise the light comes straight across the water.

Cala Millor webcam: the beach looking north

This camera stands on the roof of a seafront hotel, whose white balconies and solar panels fill the bottom left corner, and looks north along Cala Millor towards Cala Bona. Below it are the palms of the promenade, a terrace of white parasols and a wooden lifeguard tower on the sand; the beach curves away to the left, and across the bay rise the wooded hills above Cala Bona and Costa dels Pins. Boats and pedalos often dot the water.

It frames the northern half of the bay and the open sea to the east, which makes it useful for judging the waves when the wind comes off the sea. The image is a still picture taken every hour in daylight.

Cala Millor webcam: the south end of the beach

Looking along the southern end of the bay, this camera shows where the sand of Cala Millor narrows and gives way to low rocks on the way to Punta de n'Amer. On the shore are a lifeguard tower, small beach huts and a cluster of straw parasols; behind them the promenade runs past wide lawns, palms and a hotel pool, and paths lead on into the pines of the headland. The water is shallow and very clear, pale turquoise over sand and darker over the weed.

It is the quietest of the Cala Millor views, and it shows the state of the sea close to the shore. Like the other two beach cameras, it is a still picture renewed every hour in daylight.