There is a particular week every year when Ibiza stops pretending it is still summer. It usually lands right about now: the last Sunday of September, when the hire cars thin out at the airport, the sea is still absurdly warm, and the island's calendar quietly swaps beach clubs for village squares. This is that week.
Between Sunday 27 September and Sunday 4 October 2026 the island closes one season and opens another. The biggest craft market of the year shuts for winter, a mountain village sets its main street on fire in the name of its patron saint, a UNESCO-listed bastion turns into a catwalk, and the first pork sausages of the autumn go on the grill in Sant Joan. If you are here now, this is the good stuff — and most of it costs nothing.
The Night Market's Last Three Nights
Las Dalias in Sant Carles has been running its night market since the 1980s, and for many residents it is the single most reliable fixture of the summer: strings of lights through the trees, incense and leather and silver, a stage in the corner, and a garden that fills up long before anyone buys anything. The 2026 season ends with three final nights — Sunday 27, Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September, from 19:00, free entry.
Monday is the one to aim for. Peace N' Music marks Las Dalias' 40th anniversary with a closing party built around the free-form spirit of the sixties and seventies rather than any single genre, running in three acts: the night market, then the garden, then the Akasha room until late with DJ Pippi and Willie Graff. Garden access stays free; the club room is €15. Bring cash for the stalls — several traders still prefer it, and the cash machine in Sant Carles is not a thing you want to rely on at 22:00.
Fire, Drums and Ball Pagès in Sant Miquel
Tuesday 29 September is Sant Miquel de Balansat's saint's day, and the village up in the north takes it seriously. The church here is the only rural church on Ibiza built on a cross-shaped plan — the result of seventeenth-century extensions — and its Benirràs chapel still holds frescoes from the same period. The day runs from morning mass and procession through a ball pagès performance, the island's hypnotic traditional dance with its castanets and drum, into a rock concert from Groove Garage at 20:30 and then the correfoc: a fire-run where devils, sparks and drums move through the street and the crowd moves with them.
It is free, it is genuinely local, and it is the sort of evening that explains why people stay on this island through the winter. Wear old clothes and closed shoes — the sparks are part of the deal, not an accident. Parking in the village is limited, so arrive before 20:00 or leave the car down by the main road.
A Catwalk on the City Walls
On Monday 28 September from 17:00, the Ibiza Fashion Show returns for its second edition at the Baluard de Sant Pere, one of the bastions of Dalt Vila's UNESCO-listed Renaissance walls. Organised by photographer Marta Rojo with the Ajuntament d'Eivissa, it puts fashion, art and Ibizan craft tradition on a runway with the whole harbour behind it. Entry is free, the light at that hour up there is the best in the city, and the walk up through the old town is half the point.
Dalt Vila has a second reason to visit this week: several free exhibitions are open across the island, including Entre Onades i Pigments by Gemma Gavaldà and Carmen Pérez at the Centre Cultural de Jesús from 28 September, and Josep M. Miedes' photography show in Sant Joan de Labritja, a set of images of Eivissa seen from the distance of Barcelona.
October Arrives with Botifarró, Soca and Sonorama
The calendar flips on Thursday 1 October and the island's autumn food season starts properly. The Festa del Botifarró — or sa Torrada — in Sant Joan de Labritja is exactly what it sounds like: botifarró and other pork sausages grilled over embers, eaten standing up, followed by ball per a tothom, dancing for everyone. From 19:00, free. This is the first of the island's autumn eating festivals and the one with the fewest tourists in the photographs.
The same day, the Ibiza Soca Festival takes over Ibiza Rocks in San Antonio for five days of Caribbean carnival energy, running 1–5 October with full passes from around €300. Then on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October, Sonorama Ribera Goes to Ibiza lands in Cala de Bou with a Spanish indie line-up — Ginebras, Marlena, Tu Otra Bonita, Anabel Lee, Kitai and more — plus food stalls. Friday's programme is free; Saturday tickets start at €35. It is one of the more interesting bookings on the island's autumn calendar and almost entirely a Spanish-speaking crowd.
The Closings Worth Staying For
If you are here for music, this week is thick with final dates. Sven Väth closes his T.R.A.N.C.E. residency at Akasha and the Las Dalias garden on Thursday 1 October from 18:00 — garden into club, one long hypnotic set from a DJ whose connection to the island's early club years is not a marketing line. The same night, Tiempo plays its closing party at Lío in Ibiza Town from €40.
Friday 2 October brings the WooMooN closing party at Cova Santa from €30, the season's end for one of the island's most theatrical multi-sensory nights, and Patrick Topping's Trick at 528 Ibiza from 17:00, tickets from €48. For something free and much gentler, Global Underground's 30th anniversary celebration continues at Café del Mar in Sant Antoni from 19:00, with Lloyd Barwood soundtracking the sunset before the music moves inside.
Markets, Races and Quiet Nights
The Sant Josep artisan night market holds its last edition of the 2026 season on Friday 2 October from 18:00, with around fifty craftspeople and farmers in the pedestrian zone by the town hall — free, and easily the nicest of the first-Friday markets. The Saturday morning artisan market in Sant Josep continues through October from 09:30 if you miss it.
Saturday 3 October is a sporting day: the second edition of COBRA RACE Ibiza at the Recinto Ferial FECOEV from 08:00, and the Club Nàutic Eivissa's Trofeo Familia Mari Mayans regatta out in the bay across Saturday and Sunday. For something indoors, the Consell's autumn dance season brings Es aquí by Cía. Daniel Abreu to the Centre Sociocultural de Cas Serres on Friday 2 October at 20:00 for €8, and Debon canta Suau — poems by Pere Suau set to music, sung by Pau Debon of Antònia Font — plays Teatre Can Ventosa the same night at 21:00, free.
Practical Notes for the Week
Sea temperature is still around 25°C, so swimming is very much on. Evenings are noticeably cooler now, especially inland and up north, so take a layer to the correfoc and the village fiestas. Bus frequencies drop from October, so check return times before you commit to an evening in Sant Miquel or Sant Carles without a car. And free village events rarely publish precise end times — they finish when they finish, which is usually later than advertised.
Full listings, dates and ticket links for everything above are on the Ibiza Calendar events page, updated daily.
