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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	East
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 4.1277,Lat: 40.0507
Elevation	meter above sea level
Local time	19:01:43pm
At island	Menorca
Name province/region	Illes Balears
Name Subregion	Illes balears
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Mercadal, Es

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Fornells	0.8 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Son Parc	4.3 km	SouthEast
3 San Joan de Carbonell	4.8 km	South
4 Punta Grossa, Poligono I	6 km	EastSouthEast
5 Arenal d'en Castell	6 km	SouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Andorra	Andorra	350 km	NorthWest
2 Monte Carlo	Monaco	490 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	668 km	West

Characteristics - Physical Geography

Playas de Fornells lies at the Balearic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) (direction SouthEast). The nearest bigger lake is Albufera de Grau (Albufera des Grau) (1.2 km² at a height of around 568 meter above sea level) at a distance of 14.8 km in SouthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Santa Bárbara with a height of 191 meter (at a distance of 15.1 km and direction WestSouthWest). The most nearby international border is the French-Spanish border with a straight distance of 276.2 km in NorthNorthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 387 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 21%, low location: 79%, The hills are mainly eastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Palma de Mallorca Airport (at a distance of 131 km and direction WestSouthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Menorca Airport (at a distance of 22 km in SouthSouthEastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

7.2 km2

17%

Nature

12 km2

28.5%

Wet nature

0.3 km2

0.6%

Agriculture

19.1 km2

45.5%

Urban area

1.6 km2

3.8%

Rock-Sand

1.4 km2

3.3%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Playas de Fornells in country Spain

Playas de Fornells at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana	Spain	128 km	West
2 Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona	Spain	223 km	NorthWest
3 Works of Antoni Gaudí	Spain	226 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Espacio marino del norte y oeste de Menorca	ES	0.1 km	SouthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at es Mercadal

Type of weather in es Mercadal	scattered clouds
Current temperature:	21 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	6.33 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	South
Air pressure:	1012 mb
Humidity:	56 %
Daylength at 5 May 2024:	14 hour and 4 minutes
Sunrise :	06:38 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	20:42 Europe/Amsterdam