Palma in November from London: off-peak weekend packages

Most people picture Palma in July: sunburnt, packed, expensive. November is a different city. The beach clubs shut their loudest speakers off, the old town empties out enough that you can actually see the cathedral without someone's selfie stick in the frame, and the flight is short enough that a Friday evening departure still gets you into a bar by 10pm.

Our London package checks put the lowest flight and stay package to Palma at £130 per adult as of the start of September, and prices we saw for travel in November 2026 went as low as £119. That's cheaper than October (£156) and December (£136) on the same checks. November isn't just quiet, it's the cheapest month on the board right now.

Palma in November versus Porto: which weekend actually works harder

These two get compared less than they should. Both are short hops from Stansted or Luton, both have a walkable old core, and both suit a Friday to Monday shape without feeling rushed. But they solve different problems.

Porto in November means proper autumn: river fog, port wine cellars, jackets on all day. It's atmospheric and it's cheap, but you're not chasing sun. Palma in November still gives you double-digit daytime temperatures more often than not, and a coastal walk along the Passeig Marítim without needing three layers. If your idea of a weekend away is sitting outside with a coffee at 11am, Palma wins that argument even in late autumn.

Where Porto pulls ahead is drinking and eating cheaply without trying. Palma's old town restaurants know November tourists are there for a good time, not a bargain, and prices don't drop as hard as the flight does. Porto's tasca culture keeps menu prices low all year. If your weekend budget is mostly food and wine, Porto stretches further.

The honest read: Palma in November is the better package if you want mild weather and a beach-adjacent weekend without beach-season prices. Porto in November is the better package if the trip is really about the food and the river, and you don't mind a coat. Both are on our books, and you can compare weekend packages from London to Porto against Palma packages from London side by side before you commit.

The pitfall: booking the flight before checking the stay's guest score

Here's where people overpay without noticing. Palma's off-peak flight prices drop fast in November, so travellers grab a cheap Ryanair or easyJet fare from Stansted or Luton first, then scramble for a hotel afterwards. By the time they look, the well-reviewed places near the old town or Palma Beach are gone, and what's left is either overpriced for what it is or sitting well under an 8.0 guest score.

It's a real trade-off in November specifically, because Palma's hotel stock thins out for winter. Some smaller places close for refurbishment between seasons, so the pool of decent stays is smaller than it looks in summer listings. Recent stays we've checked for Palma in this window have mostly come in around 3 star, which is fine for a weekend if the guest score backs it up. Book the flight and the stay as one package rather than two separate decisions, and you avoid ending up with a great flight time and a mediocre room.

Plofair exists mostly to solve that ordering problem: it checks flight and stay together rather than letting you fall into the flight-first trap, and it won't surface anything under the 8.0 guest score floor.

What a November weekend in Palma actually looks like

Land Friday evening, and you've got time for a walk along the seafront before dinner. Saturday is the old town: the cathedral, Santa Catalina market for lunch, then out to Palma Beach or Illetas if the weather holds, which in November it often does for at least part of the day. Sunday is slower, a market or a bike ride out along the coast path, then a flight home that lands you back at Stansted or Luton in time for a normal Monday.

Three nights is the shape that works. Two feels rushed given the flight time is short but not that short. Four starts eating into the price advantage, since November's cheap flights are mostly weekend-timed.

Food and drink: where November actually saves you money

Lunch menus, not dinner, are where Palma gets genuinely cheap in November. Menú del día at neighbourhood restaurants away from the cathedral runs well below what the same kitchen charges at dinner, and locals use it, which is a good sign. Save the sit-down dinner for one night and eat lighter, cheaper lunches the rest of the trip and the food budget for the weekend drops noticeably compared with a summer visit, when every meal is priced for tourists with no local lunch crowd to keep things honest.

Market food at Santa Catalina is worth the visit even if you're not planning to eat there, but the stalls selling prepared food for a quick lunch are some of the best value in the city in low season.

The booking move that actually matters

Don't wait for a headline sale. November packages to Palma move around week to week rather than crashing on a single date, so the smarter approach is watching the route rather than timing one big booking moment. Set an alert, see what the flight and stay package looks like across a few weekends, and book when the number and the dates line up, rather than when a marketing email tells you to.

If Palma doesn't end up being the one, the same logic applies to Barcelona packages from London or Lisbon weekend packages, both of which run a similar shoulder season pattern. Browse what's live on Plofair's current flight and stay packages, and get free deal alerts so you're not the one refreshing search results every evening.