What you can see on the Son Serra de Marina webcam
The camera belongs to a beach bar behind the sand and faces north, across the beach to the bay and the far headlands. It is published through Windy, which also keeps a 24-hour time-lapse of the same view, shown after the main picture: scroll back through it to follow the wind and the sea through the day.
Son Serra de Marina beach, next to Can Picafort
A few miles east of Can Picafort, this camera looks out from a beach bar at Son Serra de Marina. A footpath and road signs lead down to the sand, a low line of rocks breaks the shore, and the open bay stretches to the headlands of the north-east, which close the view on the right.
Son Serra is the coast's wind-and-wave spot, popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers, so this camera is the one to check when a north-easterly is blowing. On quiet summer mornings it shows an almost empty beach.
Between Son Real and sa Canova
Son Serra sits between two protected stretches of coast. To the west lies Son Real, a public estate with a Talayotic burial ground on the shore; in 2023 it became part of the enlarged Llevant natural park. To the east, the Torrent de na Borges, at more than 40 km (25 miles) the longest watercourse in Majorca, reaches the sea at the end of the beach; beyond it runs sa Canova, about 1,500 metres (almost a mile) of sand and dunes in the municipality of Artà, protected since 1988. The village itself grew into a holiday spot from the 1970s. It has few hotels, fewer than 700 residents and its own marina, the Club Nàutic Serranova.
Wind, waves and seagrass
The beach is about 450 metres (1,480 ft) long and more than 100 metres (330 ft) wide, of coarse sand with scattered rocks along the shore. It faces north across the open bay, so northerly and north-easterly winds blow straight onshore and build the waves that have turned it into one of Majorca's windsurfing beaches. Thick banks of Posidonia, the seagrass that grows on the seabed, are often washed up on the sand: they are not a sign of neglect, but of the underwater meadows that help keep the water clear.
When to watch Son Serra de Marina
Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. As the camera looks north, the sun stays behind it for most of the day and lights the sea rather than shining into the lens; on summer mornings and evenings the low sun slants in from either side.
Getting to Son Serra de Marina
Son Serra lies just off the Ma-12, the road from Artà to Port d'Alcúdia. Can Picafort is the nearest resort; the inland town of Santa Margalida is 8½ miles (13.6 km) away and Artà about 10 miles (17 km). There is parking in the village and beside the beach. The Can Picafort webcam looks over the dunes and the beach of the neighbouring resort, on the far side of Son Real.
