About Boat Menorca
Updated on 28 October 2026
Boat Menorca is a personal project by Alvaro Saiz. It is a guide to Menorca’s coves by boat: which cove suits the day’s wind and how many miles it is from each port. Soon it will also compare boat hire from the island’s companies, using the data they publish on their own websites.
Why
In Menorca, the wind is what matters most when you choose a cove: the same cove can be calm or full of waves depending on where the wind comes from. That information was split between weather sites, which do not talk about coves, and beach guides, which do not look at the wind. We put them together.
Boat Menorca is not an agency: it does not book, take payments or have user accounts. When there is a company behind something, the link goes to its website.
How we work out distances
The 26 coves and 6 ports come from OpenStreetMap. Sea miles are worked out by going round the OpenStreetMap coastline on a 25 metre grid, so they are approximate (expected error up to 8%). Times assume 15 knots.
How we rate each cove
- For each cove we know which way it faces and which winds it is sheltered from or exposed to.
- With the forecast, a cove comes out "good", "fair" or "avoid". For example: an exposed cove becomes "fair" from 11 knots of wind, and any cove becomes "avoid" from 17 knots, with gusts from 25 knots or with a swell from 1.5 metres on its stretch of coast.
- From a port, we also look at the trip: it is only as good as its worst stretch of coast.
- These are our own cautious criteria, still to be checked with rental companies. Before you go, always ask yours.
Where the forecast comes from
The wind and wave forecast comes from Open-Meteo, for 7 days and six points at sea around the island. Every morning we save a copy so each page already has it written in, and it updates when you open it. It is for guidance only: the official reference is the AEMET marine forecast.
How we read boat companies’ data
For the comparison, our robot reads boat companies’ public websites: which booking software they use and, later on, their boats and published prices. It never books, never fills in forms and follows robots.txt. It is all explained in BoatMenorcaBot.
Contact
Email us at [email protected]. The owner’s details are in the legal notice and our sources in Sources, method and attribution.