Ibiza and Formentera without a car: how to get around by bus, boat and bike, and which areas work well

Eivissa (town, harbour, Dalt Vila): the easiest base without a car. You can walk, there are urban lines (UE3, UE8, UE9, UE10, U2, U12) and the lines to most of the island leave from here. The airport has the AERO3 Express from Eivissa.

Sant Antoni: trunk line T1 to Sant Rafel and Eivissa, T2 via Sant Josep, AERO1 to the airport and beach lines to Cala Gració and Cap Negret (P1), Cala Bassa (P5), Platges de Comte (P4) and Cala Salada (P7).

Santa Eulària and Es Canar: T3 to Eivissa, AERO4 to the airport, A12 to Cala Llonga, U6 to Es Canar and P10 to Cala Nova.

Platja d'en Bossa and Figueretes: U4 to Eivissa, AERO5 to the airport and P3 towards Ses Salines.

Sant Joan, Portinatx and the north: T4 and T6 link Santa Eulària and Eivissa with Sant Llorenç, Sant Joan and Portinatx (brackets in a line name mark sections that not every service covers).

Sant Josep and the west coast: A14 links Cala Bassa and Cala Tarida with Sant Josep, A15 reaches Cala Vedella, A1 links Cala Tarida with Sant Antoni and P9 reaches Cala Tarida from Eivissa via Sant Josep and Sant Jordi.

Formentera: the Formentera bus from La Savina, a bike and walking cover most of the island; see the sections below.

According to the Consell d'Eivissa, the island's regular road bus service is provided by concession companies, and the Consell defines the service and the fare regime. Alsa Ibiza (alsaibiza.es) publishes the lines on its website and one timetable PDF per line.

Lines are grouped by letter: T (trunk lines between the main towns, T1 to T7), A (between smaller villages and coves, A1 to A16), AERO (airport, AERO1 to AERO5), U and UE (urban, including the lines in Eivissa town), P (beaches, P1 to P10), D (which, according to its website, go to the nightclub areas, D1 to D4) and N (night lines, N1 to N7).

Alsa has a counter at CETIS Eivissa. Its fare table also names "I. Macabich/Port" (the AERO3) as a starting point, and the points of sale "CETIS Eivissa", "Sant Antoni station" and "Santa Eulària station".

On its lines page the Alsa website does not say which lines are seasonal and which run all year: each PDF has its own table. Aena lists AERO1 and AERO4 as available from 1 April 2026. If you travel outside summer, open the PDF of the line you need and check the days and times.

According to the Alsa Ibiza fares page, you pay for a single ticket by bank card on the bus itself, with a QR code bought on the website, in the Mobi4U app, at counters or at vending machines, or in cash on board, at counters and at machines. The page also says that purchases from 21:00 onwards have to be made on the bus.

There are machines at the airport, CETIS, Sant Antoni station, the Botafoc breakwater, Santa Eulària station and the Es Canar stop. Purchases on the website or app carry a handling fee per passenger, according to Alsa's FAQ.

The fare depends on distance bands. By card or QR: 0 to 9 km, €1.70; 10 to 14 km, €1.85; 15 to 18 km, €2.20; over 18 km, €2.60. In cash: €2.40, €2.60, €3.10 and €3.60. The airport lines and some beach lines have their own fares (next section).

The reduced-fare transport cards (general, silver, gold and youth profiles) are personal and their validity depends on legal residence in Ibiza, according to Alsa and the Consell d'Eivissa: they are not for visitors. The fares page carries no validity date, so confirm prices before you travel.

Aena lists five bus lines to Ibiza airport, all operated by Alsa: AERO1 (Sant Antoni, Sant Josep, airport), AERO2 (Eivissa bus station, Sant Jordi, airport), AERO3 (Eivissa, Airport Express), AERO4 (Cala Nova, Es Canar, Santa Eulària, airport) and AERO5 (airport, Platja d'en Bossa, Figueretes). Aena's page only says "bus stop" and does not place it more precisely: follow the airport signs.

Alsa fares for those lines, by card or QR and in cash: AERO2, AERO3 and AERO5, €3.50 and €4.90; AERO1, €3.50 and €4.90 from Sa Casilla-Can Verger and €4.00 and €5.60 from Sa Can Raialet-Sant Antoni; AERO4, €4.00 and €5.60 from Es Canar-Santa Eulària. Frequencies are in each line's PDF, not on Aena's page.

Some beach lines have their own fare per trip: A1, A5, A7, P3, P4, P5 and P9 cost €3.35 by card or QR and €4.70 in cash; P6, P7 and UE4, €1.90 and €2.65. With these fares, a far-off cove can cost more than a trip between two towns.

Aena also has a page with taxi information at the airport. We found no island taxi fare in official sources, so we give no figures: ask about the price or the fare system before you get in.

The Alsa Ibiza lines page includes seven night lines, N1 (Sant Antoni, Sant Josep, Eivissa), N2 (Santa Eulària, Eivissa), N3 (Eivissa, Sant Miquel, Sant Joan, circular), N4 (Sant Antoni, Sant Rafel, Eivissa), N5 (Sant Jordi, Eivissa, Puig d'en Valls, Jesús), N6 (Eivissa, Platja d'en Bossa) and N7 (circular via Santa Eulària, Sant Llorenç, Sant Joan, Sant Miquel and Santa Gertrudis), each with its own PDF.

There are also lines D1 to D4, which according to that website link Sant Antoni, Eivissa, Platja d'en Bossa and Santa Eulària with nightclub areas. Fares: D1 and D2, €3.00 by card or QR and €4.20 in cash; D3, €4.00 and €5.60; D4, from Eivissa harbour, €2.00 and €2.80.

Departure times and days of service are in each PDF and we do not reproduce them: if you plan to return at night, check first that the line runs on your day.

Formentera has no airport, so you always arrive by boat. According to formentera.es, the usual boat leaves Eivissa harbour and reaches La Savina harbour in about 30 minutes, with frequent sailings all year.

We give no number of sailings or prices because the official tourism website does not state them. The shipping companies publish their own timetables and fares, which vary by season: compare them on their websites. Lines L1 and L2 of the Formentera bus start at La Savina harbour.

If you will stay on Formentera and arrive on a summer day, remember that the vehicle limit in the next section applies to cars, not to people on foot, by bike or by bus.

According to formentera.eco, the regulation of motor vehicles that want to enter, drive or park on Formentera applies every year from 1 June to 30 September, both included, and requires authorisation. The daily fees it publishes are, in June and September, €6 per car (minimum €30) and €3 per motorbike (minimum €15), and in July and August €9 (minimum €45) and €4.50 (minimum €22.50), with a 50% discount for hybrids and 100% for electric vehicles.

According to the same website, rental vehicles hired outside the island are banned in that period, public transport is not subject to the fee and, when the quota is full, the alternatives it suggests are public transport, a bike or renting a vehicle on Formentera.

The Consell Insular de Formentera published on its website, on 3 March 2026, the agreements on the 2026 period, the vehicle ceiling and the number of rental vehicles; each year's ceiling and quotas are in the ferry guide. To find out whether there is room, use formentera.eco.

According to busformentera.com, the regular lines are L1 (La Savina, Sant Francesc, Sant Ferran and Es Pujols, with stops at the hospital and at Es Pujols beach), L2 (La Savina to El Pilar de la Mola via Sant Ferran, Es Caló and the lighthouse stop at La Mola, with 22 stops), L3 (tourist bus, running to Illetes beach and, on the blue route, also to Es Pujols), L5 (Cala Saona) and L7 (Es Pujols and Illetes).

The website publishes a regular-lines timetable PDF dated 16 October 2026 and another for the L3 tourist bus dated 15 October 2026. The pages for each line give no frequencies, season dates, prices or payment methods: for those, check the PDFs.

Formentera.es recommends the bus for longer trips, such as the climb to La Mola.

According to formentera.es, 32 green routes have been signposted, many suitable for cycling, with more than 100 km of trails suitable for bikes; the island is practically flat and La Mola is the only notable climb. Access to the Natural Park is free for bicycles. The Consell Insular also publishes a map with eight bike routes near La Savina harbour, with distances and times.

You can hire bikes and e-bikes at La Savina and Es Pujols, and there are guided e-bike outings: see the cards in this guide.

In Ibiza we found no comparable cycling network in official sources, nor a continuous path between Eivissa and Sant Antoni, so we do not assume one exists. The island's roads are shared with traffic: for long rides, what we have seen on offer are guided mountain-bike and e-bike outings.

Coves and corners that do not appear on the route of any published line cannot be reached by bus. In the west and north-west, the lines reach Cala Bassa, Platges de Comte, Cala Salada, Cala Tarida, Cala Vedella and Benirràs, but not every small cove: before you go, look the name up in the line's PDF and check there is a return trip.

For the countryside, the usual approach is to take a bus to a village and combine it with a short walk or a guided outing. Taxis exist, but we have no official fare to quote.

The best option without a car is to stay along the Eivissa-Sant Antoni-Santa Eulària axis and on Formentera, and to use the bus for specific outings, always checking the return timetable.

Eivissa is the easiest base without a car and has walks that need no transport: Dalt Vila, the walls and bastions, and guided city walks. These and other options in Santa Eulària and Sant Antoni are in the cards of this guide.