Best Sunsets in Menorca: 5 Spots and What Time to Go

By the third evening of our trip Damian was asking about the sunset before dinner. He was five. That is the thing about watching the sun go down on an island — it costs nothing, it takes twenty minutes, and it fits around whatever else you had planned.

We watched it almost every night for five days in late September. These are the places that were worth driving to, what time to be there, and the one everybody recommends that faces the wrong way.

What time does the sun set in Menorca?

This is the part most guides leave out, and it is the only thing you actually need to plan around. Times are for Ciutadella, on the western end of the island.

When	Sunset
Late April	20:32
Mid-June	21:15
21 June — the latest of the year	21:17
Mid-August	20:43
Late September	19:38
Mid-to-late October, before the clocks change	around 19:00
Late October, after the clocks change	17:48

Watch out for the last week of October. The clocks go back on the last Sunday of the month — 25 October in 2026 — and sunset jumps from just before seven to just before six overnight. If you are travelling at half term, that one hour reshapes your evenings.

Arrive 30 minutes early. The colour before the sun touches the water is usually better than the moment itself, and at most of these spots you need that time to park and walk.

1. Los Delfines — the one that amazed us most

Los Delfines is a small resort town on the western tip of Menorca, and it sits pointing straight at the sunset. This was our favourite of the whole trip.

There is a bar at the top if you want to watch with a drink in your hand. Walk a few steps further along and you get exactly the same view with nobody around you.

Wear proper shoes. The ground out there is sharp and rugged — this is limestone coast, not a promenade, and sandals are not enough.

If you are still choosing where to stay and sunsets matter to you, a sea-view apartment in the front row here is about as good as it gets on the island.

2. Punta Nati — the emptiest

Twenty minutes north-west of Ciutadella, through low scrub and dry-stone walls, ending at tall cliffs with a lighthouse on them and nothing between you and the sea.

You park in the designated area and walk the last kilometre or so over rough ground, which is why it is usually empty. With a pushchair it is hard work. With children who walk, it is the most dramatic sunset spot on Menorca.

More on it in our guide to the seven lighthouses of Menorca.

3. Torre des Castellar — the quiet one

South of Son Blanc, near Ciutadella. Park and walk the last 500 metres or so.

What makes this one work is that there is nothing in the way — no building, no other people, no railing. Just cliffs, the sea, and usually a couple of sailing boats crossing the light.

The tower itself is worth knowing about, because we got it wrong the first time we wrote this up and called it a lighthouse. It is a defensive watchtower, built by the British in 1799 — a circular truncated cone of stone and local marés, eight metres tall over three levels, standing inside a six-metre moat so that it looked lower and smaller to ships out at sea. It is entered through an underground passage running from the ground floor out to the far face of the moat, which no other tower on Menorca has. It was built to support the Castell de Sant Nicolau in defending the port of Ciutadella.

Rocky underfoot again — comfortable shoes.

4. Cala Morell — cliffs, caves and a view from the car

On the north-west coast, above a cove ringed by cliffs and a prehistoric cave necropolis cut into the rock.

We arrived in the evening with both boys asleep in the back of the car, so we stayed at the top and watched from there — and that turned out to be the point. The viewpoint at Cala Morell works without going down to the beach at all, which makes it the one sunset spot on this list you can do with sleeping children.

5. Cap d’Artrutx — the easy one

On the south-western corner, and unlike everywhere else on this list, the lighthouse at Cap d’Artrutx stands in a residential area with a small tourist complex and facilities around it. No rough ground, no walk, no scramble.

That makes it the right choice with a pushchair, with a toddler who has already walked enough, or when you want to sit down with a drink. It faces both ways well enough that it works for sunrise too.

The one that faces the wrong way: Es Grau

We drove out to Es Grau one evening because it had been recommended to us as a sunset spot, and we ran down the sand trying to photograph the light.

Here is the thing nobody told us, and which we did not check at the time: Es Grau faces east. It sits inside a sheltered bay on Menorca’s east coast, screened by Illa d’en Colom, with the Albufera lagoon behind it. The sun sets over the land at your back, not over the water in front of you.

What you get there in the evening is the afterglow — the sky going pink over the dunes and that colour coming back off very still, very shallow water. It is beautiful and it is worth doing. It is just not a sunset over the sea.

Es Grau is a sunrise beach, and that is the better reason to go. The water is extremely shallow a long way out, the whole area is inside the Albufera des Grau natural park, and the village has a few bars and shops. If you have an early-rising toddler — and in late September we did — the east coast at dawn is a genuine reason to be grateful for it.

Which one should you pick?

• The best view: Los Delfines
• The most dramatic: Punta Nati
• The quietest: Torre des Castellar
• With sleeping children in the car: Cala Morell
• With a pushchair, or when nobody wants to walk: Cap d’Artrutx
• For sunrise instead: Es Grau

All six are free, and none of them takes more than half an hour of your evening.

More Menorca

• Menorca with kids: best beaches, where to stay and what to do
• 5 days in Menorca with kids: our day-by-day itinerary
• The seven lighthouses of Menorca
• Mallorca with kids: our family adventure

Sunsets in Menorca: your questions answered

What time does the sun set in Menorca?

In Ciutadella, sunset is around 20:32 in late April, 21:15 in mid-June, 20:43 in mid-August and 19:38 in late September. The latest sunset of the year is 21:17 on 21 June. In late October the answer changes sharply: it is close to 19:00 before the clocks go back on 25 October 2026, and 17:48 afterwards.

Where is the best place to watch the sunset in Menorca?

Los Delfines, on the western tip of the island, which points straight at the sunset and has a bar at the top if you want to watch with a drink. Punta Nati is the most dramatic, on empty cliffs about twenty minutes north-west of Ciutadella, and Torre des Castellar is the quietest, with nothing at all obstructing the view.

Can you watch the sunset from Es Grau?

Not over the sea. Es Grau faces east, inside a sheltered bay on Menorca’s east coast screened by Illa d’en Colom, so the sun sets behind you over the dunes and the Albufera lagoon. You still get a beautiful afterglow reflected off very shallow, very still water, but if you want the sun going down over the water you need the west of the island. Es Grau is a sunrise beach.

Which Menorca sunset spot is easiest with small children?

Cap d’Artrutx, on the south-western corner. Unlike the other spots the lighthouse there stands in a residential area with a small tourist complex and facilities, so there is no rough ground and no walk. Cala Morell is the other easy one, because the clifftop viewpoint works without going down to the beach — we watched from there with both boys asleep in the car.

Do you need to walk far to reach these sunset spots?

It varies. Cap d’Artrutx needs no walking at all. Cala Morell works from the viewpoint by the road. Torre des Castellar is about 500 metres from where you park, and Punta Nati is about a kilometre over rough ground. At Los Delfines and Punta Nati the limestone is sharp underfoot, so wear proper shoes rather than sandals.

What is Torre des Castellar?

A defensive watchtower built by the British in 1799 on a rocky headland south of Son Blanc, near Ciutadella. It is a circular truncated cone of stone and local marés, eight metres tall over three levels, set inside a six-metre moat so that it appeared smaller from the sea. Uniquely among Menorca’s towers it is entered through an underground passage running from the ground floor to the outer face of the moat. It was built to support the Castell de Sant Nicolau in defending the port of Ciutadella.

How early should you arrive for sunset in Menorca?

About thirty minutes. The colour in the half hour before the sun reaches the water is usually better than the moment itself, and at most of these spots you need that time to park and walk in.

Is it free to watch the sunset in Menorca?

Yes, at all of these spots. None of them charges for access and none takes more than about half an hour out of an evening.