The season ended this week, and you can feel it everywhere. The airport arrivals board has gone quiet, the coast road is empty at eight in the evening, and the clocks went back last Sunday, which means the light is gone before six. This is the week the island stops performing and goes back to being a place where people live.
It is also, quietly, one of the best weeks of the year to be here. Over the next seven days Ibiza puts on a Mozart Requiem inside the cathedral, closes a horror film festival with a monster parade through the centre of town, and hands the first week of November over to a village of four hundred people. Almost none of it costs anything. Here are the things to do in Ibiza between Thursday 29 October and Thursday 5 November 2026.
Mozart's Requiem in the cathedral — free, Sunday 1 November
If you do one thing this week, make it this. On Sunday 1 November at midday, Ibiza Cathedral at the top of Dalt Vila hosts a free concert marking the 270th anniversary of Mozart's birth: Laudate Dominum KV 339 followed by the Requiem in D minor KV 626.
It is not a token performance. Soloists Tanya Duran-Gil (soprano), Adriana Mayer (mezzo-soprano), Nyester Martorell (tenor) and Sebastián Peris (bass) are joined by the Amalthea Chamber Choir and the Jove Orquestra Illes Balears, with Juan F. Ballesteros conducting. The Consell d'Eivissa and the Bishopric are behind it, and admission is free.
Two pieces of local advice. First, the Requiem on All Saints' Day, in a fourteenth-century cathedral, on the morning when half the island is carrying chrysanthemums up to the cemeteries, is about as close as Ibiza gets to a genuinely solemn public moment — go in the right frame of mind. Second, free and seated means full. The walk up through the Portal de ses Taules takes a good fifteen minutes from the port, more if you stop at the viewpoints, so leave Vara de Rey by 11:15 at the latest.
Halloween's last act: the Monster Walk and a festival finale
The third Ibiza Halloween Festival has been running at Teatre Can Ventosa since Thursday and it finishes over the weekend, all of it free.
Saturday 31 October is the loud one. From 17:00 a team of make-up artists sets up at the Vara de Rey statue and turns anyone who asks into a monster. At 21:00 the Monster Walk parade, hosted by La Mandarina Asesina, winds through the centre of Ibiza Town and ends at the Monster Runway, where the best costumes take prizes. Earlier that evening, at 18:30, Can Ventosa screens the Balearic short film selection.
Sunday 1 November closes it out at noon with a family matinee of fantasy and animation, followed by the awards for the official sections, the Terror Express contest and the RICTUS art competition. It is the rare festival finale you can take a seven-year-old to.
Elsewhere on Saturday night: the Espantós Fest fills the square in Sant Jordi with Los del Varadero and DJ Toni Torres from 20:00, and there is a Túnel del Terror at the C19 youth centre. On Sunday, Nido takes over the Las Dalias garden for Día de Muertos from midday, free until 20:00.
Sant Carles owns the first week of November
The village of Sant Carles de Peralta — the one with Bar Anita on the corner and Las Dalias down the road — celebrates its patron saint on Wednesday 4 November, and the surrounding programme runs for weeks.
The day itself is the traditional one: solemn mass and procession at midday in the square, ball pagès folk dancing by the Colla de Sant Carles, a hippy market through the pedestrian streets in the afternoon, and live music into the evening. Free, and genuinely local — in November the crowd at a patronal fiesta is the village plus whoever had the sense to drive out.
Take a few minutes for the church itself before the mass. Its three-arched porch is one of the most elaborate in the Ibizan countryside, and there are Italian stucco sgraffiti preserved in the apse.
One sad note: the Fira des Calamar, the squid gastronomy fair that normally anchors this weekend in its tenth edition, has been postponed by the Ajuntament de Santa Eulària following the three days of national mourning declared for the Urda rail disaster. No new date has been announced. The rest of the Sant Carles programme is going ahead as planned.
The council has also put two free outdoor dates on the calendar around the village. Saturday 31 October brings a guided coastal walk starting and finishing in Sant Carles — roughly 15 km and genuinely demanding, so bring proper shoes and water. Sunday 1 November is the gentler opposite: the first stage of the Ruta de Tardor family bike route, leaving the church at 10:00.
Two concerts worth the drive inland
Saturday 31 October is unusually good for live music away from the coast.
At 19:00, the fifth Santa Eulària chamber music festival closes at the Centre Cultural de Jesús with the Dúo Vives-Laliga — soprano Mar Vives and pianist Marc Laliga, working through Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc, Gounod, Obradors, Turina, Strauss, Puccini and Verdi, with love as the thread running between them. Tickets €10.
Then at 20:30 in Sant Josep, the church opens a six-month cycle marking twenty years of its organ, running through to May 2027. The opening recital is given by Joan Esteban Sandoval Díaz, a fifteen-year-old from Barcelona and former Escolania de Montserrat pupil, who sets the Sant Josep organ against a portable PocketPiano to show off its range. Free until the church fills.
For something with more scenery than scripture, Sueños 2, the dance-theatre production, plays the Palau de Congressos at 18:30 on Saturday, from €26.
Thursday nights move indoors
Las Dalias has restarted its winter rhythm, and the best of it is free. Ibiza Vinyl Club runs every Thursday from October through April at the Las Dalias café — an all-vinyl MicroRave from 19:00 to midnight, with OpenDecks, a Jukebox DJ slot, records for sale and DJs playing straight out of their own crates. It runs tonight, 29 October, and again on 5 November. No ticket, no list, no queue.
Also on Thursday 5 November, the Spanish comedy act Comandante Lara y Cía. brings its stand-up and sketch show to Teatre Can Ventosa at 21:00, programmed by the Ajuntament d'Eivissa.
Practical notes for the week
Saturdays still work for markets: Las Dalias in Sant Carles from 10:00, the Sant Jordi flea market from 08:00, Forada out in the countryside, and the Mercat de sa Cooperativa in Santa Eulària on Friday morning for local produce. Sunday adds the Sant Joan art market.
Sunsets are free and still happening — Café del Mar in Sant Antoni keeps its nightly sessions from 17:00, which now lines up almost exactly with the sun going down.
And if you only have one evening, take the Sunday: Requiem at noon in Dalt Vila, lunch in the old town while it is still warm enough to sit outside, and the drive north to Las Dalias as the light goes. That is November in Ibiza working at full strength.
Full listings for every event in this guide, updated daily, are on the Ibiza Calendar events page.
