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Dijous Bo in Inca: a guide to Mallorca's biggest fair

On Thursday 19 November 2026 the whole of Inca becomes a fair: livestock, black pigs, farm machinery, island produce and an eve that runs until dawn. What to see, when, and how to get there by train.

By GetMallorca editorial team · 31 October 2026

Once a year, on a Thursday in November, Inca stops being a town people drive past and becomes the centre of Mallorca. It is Dijous Bo, the "good Thursday": the island's biggest fair, with livestock in Plaça del Bestiar, farm machinery along Gran Via de Colom, produce and craft stalls all over the centre and people from every village. In 2024 the local press counted more than three hundred exhibitors and eight kilometres of stalls.

In 2026 Dijous Bo is on Thursday 19 November, according to the Ajuntament d'Inca's calendar, and the eve, Dimecres Bo, on Wednesday 18. The date moves every year because it follows an old rule (the fourth Thursday after the Sunday following Sant Lluc, 18 October), which in practice means the first Thursday on or after 13 November. In 2027 it falls on 18 November. Entry to the fair is free.

The 2026 programme is not out yet

As of 31 October 2026 the town hall has not yet published this year's programme. To get an idea, the 2025 one is a good reference: the shape repeats from year to year, although times can move. When the 2026 programme comes out it will be on the Ajuntament d'Inca's website, and it is worth checking before you go.

Dimecres Bo: the eve is a fair day too

Plenty of people go on the Wednesday, and it makes sense: in 2025 the fair was already up from the morning. The livestock show opened at 12:00 in Plaça del Bestiar, at 13:00 the breed contest of the porc negre mallorquí (the island's black pig, the one sobrasada is made from) began there, and at 17:30 came the official opening, with xeremiers, the local bagpipers. That same day farm machinery filled Gran Via de Colom from 10:00 to 20:00, and the Mercat Tradicional Pagès, the farmers' market, filled the central streets from 10:00 to 22:00, from Plaça del Bestiar and Plaça de Santa Maria la Major down to the train station. In the afternoon the car, truck and heavy machinery dealers opened on the industrial estate.

Then comes the night. Dimecres Bo is one of the busiest nights of the year in Mallorca's streets, with music in bars and squares until late. That is why the night trains matter so much (see below).

Thursday: livestock, market and xeremiers

Thursday is the big day. In 2025 the livestock show and the black pig contest carried on in Plaça del Bestiar from 9:30 to 17:30, with the prize-giving at 12:00; the xeremiers set off at 11:00 along Avinguda dels Reis Catòlics and past the station, and the farmers' market took over the same route again from 10:00 to 20:00. The cloister of Sant Domingo hosted an exhibition on 150 years of the railway in Mallorca, and the Mercat Cobert served a fish fideuà at lunchtime.

If you are going for the animals, go in the morning: that is when the pens are full and it feels most like a country fair, with Mallorcan breeds of sheep and cattle as well as the black pigs. If you are going to shop, the market route is long: cheese, sobrasada, cured meats, olive oil, almonds, ceramics, leather (Inca is the island's town of shoes and leather goods), plants and tools. Bring some cash and comfortable shoes, because you will walk a lot.

At lunchtime the cellers fill up: old Inca wine cellars turned into restaurants serving Mallorcan food. It is the hardest day of the year to get a table, so if you want to eat in one, phone ahead or go early.

Before Dijous Bo: the Fires d'Inca

Dijous Bo closes a month of fairs. In 2026 the Fires d'Inca take up three weekends: the Fira de la Terra on 24 and 25 October; the Fira de l'Esport i l'Oci on 31 October and 1 November, with the Motor Fair on Gran Via de Colom on the Sunday (10:00–19:00) and, new this year, a first cycling fair in Plaça d'Antoni Fluxà; and the Fira d'Època on 7 and 8 November, with a medieval market, falconry in Plaça de Santa Maria la Major, circus in Plaça del Mercat Cobert and the farewell parade on Sunday at 20:30.

On those three weekends SFM, the island's railway, adds 16 extra trains every Saturday and Sunday afternoon between Palma and Inca, in both directions: the first leaves Palma at 15:25 and the last comes back from Inca at 22:40, and all of them stop at every station.

Getting there: take the train

On the day, the centre of Inca is taken over by stalls, so the train is the easiest way in. All three SFM lines (T1, T2 and T3) leave from Palma's Estació Intermodal, on Plaça d'Espanya, and stop in Inca, and the station sits at the end of the market route: you step off the train and you are already at the fair.

For Dijous Bo 2026 SFM has announced night trains and extra services, but has not yet published the times. For reference, in 2025 it ran 42 special trains on the Wednesday night, until 5:00: from Palma to Inca the first at 20:25 and the last at 4:20; from Inca to Palma from 21:03 to 5:00. There were also night trains between Inca and Manacor and between Inca and sa Pobla. If you drive, leave early and expect to park well away from the centre.

Our Mallorca in November page has the rest of what is on across the island that month, with the weather it usually brings.

All year round: the Thursday market

If you cannot make it on 19 November, Inca has a market every Thursday of the year, from 8:00 to 14:00, from Gran Via de Colom to the streets around Santa Maria la Major. It is not Dijous Bo, but it is the biggest weekly market in Mallorca and a good excuse to get to know the town, its cellers and the villages of the Raiguer around it.