The summer timetable is limited to August, starting on Thursday the 1st.

This year, Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) is maintaining its regular service timetable throughout July, having extended it for the second half of July for the first time since the summer timetable was introduced. In this way, the summer timetable is limited this year to August, from Thursday 1 to 31 August.

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This year, SFM will maintain its usual service timetable throughout July

Every year, the summer timetable for train and metro services operated during the second half of July and the month of August, a schedule that had been applied by default since 2013 year after year and which was not modified after the approval of free public transport.

The change in the schedule was adopted to optimise the company’s resources and adapt the service to demand, which always drops significantly during the summer. According to data from recent years, in 2018 the sum of train and metro users in July and August fell by 16% compared to the sum of May and June; in 2019 the drop was 14.3%; in 2022, 18.1%; and last year, in 2023, it was even more pronounced, 20.3%.

Because demand drops more significantly during August and the better staffing conditions currently available, with the recent incorporation of new train drivers, SFM has introduced the important new feature of enabling the summer timetable only in August and thus not modifying the service during the whole month of July, in response to a regular complaint from users.

In the summer timetable that will be applied in August, the train service will go from offering 72 departures from Palma in the usual timetable to 65; and in the opposite direction, from offering 75 to 65 arrivals in Palma. The timetable for the summer service (departure time of the first and last train) remains unchanged concerning the usual timetables. Weekend timetables are also unchanged in summer, and are the same as those offered the rest of the year.

Concerning the metro, while the usual timetable offers frequencies every 20 minutes throughout the day, in the summer schedule, the frequency is every 30 minutes from the first service of the day until 17.25 and, from this time until the end of the service, every 40 minutes. On Saturday mornings, the metro goes from a frequency of every 30 minutes to one train every hour in the summer timetable.