Overall score
Use the Palma profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level island context alongside Valencia and Barcelona.
Overall69/100
Affordability66/100
Air quality74/100
Energy70/100
Spain / Southern Europe
Palma City Intelligence
Palma is the capital of the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean, with port, airport-hub, tourism, and services activity inside an island climate-adaptation context. Palma is a southern europe city of about ~0.55M metro in Spain. On the composite city-intelligence score, Palma sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (69/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~0.55M metro
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Overall city intelligence
Mixed69/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Palma data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 69/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 66/100 | Palma's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 74/100 | Palma's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 70/100 | Palma's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 67/100 | Palma's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 70/100 | Palma's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 64/100 | Palma's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 64/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Palma
Local public safety guidance for Palma, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
| Service | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| European emergency | 11224/7 | 112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge. |
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Palma, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Spain emergency profile.
Public safety sources
Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.
- European Commission: 112 — The European emergency number
Used as the primary attribution for the EU-wide 112 universal emergency number on European country profiles.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Palma
Healthcare context for Palma, with national-level information from Spain where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Palma, see the Spain healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Palma
Local mobility context for Palma, with national-level context from Spain where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Palma, see the Spain transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Palma. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Palma
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Palma will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Palma air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Palma modules
City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.
Cost of Living in Palma
Palma's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Palma
Palma's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Palma
Palma's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Palma
Palma's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Palma
Palma's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Palma
Palma's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Palma
Cost of living estimates for Palma — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Visual guide to Palma
Source-attributed visual context for Palma using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Weekend trip planning guide for Palma
Weekend trip planning checklist for Palma — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.
Nearby weekend places from Palma
Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.
Estimate a monthly budget for Palma
Estimate a monthly budget for Palma using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Palma
Plan a trip budget for Palma using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Palma
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Palma. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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Barcelona, Spain
Same region · about 207 km from Palma. Explore Barcelona's city intelligence profile.
Tarragona, Spain
Same corridor · about 209 km from Palma. Explore Tarragona's city intelligence profile.
Badalona, Spain
Same region · about 211 km from Palma. Explore Badalona's city intelligence profile.
Sabadell, Spain
Same region · about 225 km from Palma. Explore Sabadell's city intelligence profile.
Terrassa, Spain
Same region · about 228 km from Palma. Explore Terrassa's city intelligence profile.
Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Same region · about 234 km from Palma. Explore Castellón de la Plana's city intelligence profile.
Valencia, Spain
Same region · about 260 km from Palma. Explore Valencia's city intelligence profile.
Benidorm, Spain
Same region · about 266 km from Palma. Explore Benidorm's city intelligence profile.
Girona, Spain
Weekend trip · about 269 km from Palma. Explore Girona's city intelligence profile.
Themed collections
Theme-first discovery collections that include Palma — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.
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Spain Family Outdoor Escapes
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Spain Hiking Areas
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Spain Mountain Escapes
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Spain National Park Weekends
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Spain Nature Photography Spots
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Interpretation
Use the Palma profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level island context alongside Valencia and Barcelona. Its standout dimensions are air quality (74/100) and energy (70/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (64/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Spain country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Palma appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.