September in Ibiza ends the way the island prefers to do things: quietly, and then all at once. This is the week the summer machinery starts folding itself away — the night market in Sant Carles counts down its final three evenings, the last pool party of the season happens, urban clubs in Playa d'en Bossa hang up the season — while the villages do the opposite and throw open their plazas. Between 22 and 29 September you can watch a medieval sailors' fair spill along a seafront promenade, hear a batucada on a beach under a full moon, and sit down to open-air theatre inside a 3,000-year-old Phoenician settlement. Almost all of it is free.
If you are on the island now, this is the good week. The water is still warm, the roads are emptying, and the events calendar has never been more local. Here is what we would actually go to.
The Sailors' Fair Takes Over Sant Antoni (24–27 September)
The Fira Marinera reaches its fifteenth edition this year, and it remains one of the most underrated four days in the Ibizan calendar. From Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 September, the Passeig de ses Fonts and the Passeig de la Mar in Sant Antoni de Portmany turn into a medieval and pirate-themed port: more than a hundred stalls of crafts, food and drink, plus street theatre, jugglers, live music and a children's zone strung along the water.
The market opens on Thursday at 17:30, with the official inauguration at 19:00. Friday, Saturday and Sunday run longer, filling both the afternoon and the evening. Entry is free, and the setting does a lot of the work — the fair is laid out facing the bay, so the whole thing is backlit by the sunset Sant Antoni is famous for.
A practical note: park once and walk. The promenade is closed to traffic during the fair, and the streets behind it fill early on Saturday. If you are coming from Ibiza Town, the bus is faster than hunting a space.
A Full Moon, a Batucada and a Beach Clean at Es Figueral (26–27 September)
The Fiesta de sa Roca de sa Creu is the sort of event that explains why people move here. It runs across two days on the beach at Es Figueral, in the municipality of Santa Eulària des Riu, and it is free from start to finish.
Saturday 26 September is billed as the full-moon night, and the programme reads like a slow build: an open African dance class with Nati Botta at 17:00, DJ Katana playing afrobeat and afrolatino from 18:00, The Rosemary Family bringing Latin rumba at 19:00, the Aiyé batucada drumming through the crowd at 20:30 and again at 22:30, and organic electronica from Ape Chimba at 21:00. You are standing on sand the whole time.
Sunday is the morning-after version, and it is more useful than it sounds. At 09:30 volunteers gather for a beach clean paired with a microplastics awareness workshop. At 10:00 there are guided nautical activities under the island's "Viu la posidònia" programme — free, with limited places, focused on the seagrass meadows that keep Ibizan water as clear as it is. At 11:30 there is an open beach-tennis session for kids. Bring a towel, arrive early for the 10:00 slot, and you will learn more about the local marine ecosystem in two hours than a week of snorkelling would teach you.
Theatre on a Phoenician Site, Dance and a Free Rock Festival (26 September)
Saturday is the most crowded night of this week, in the best way.
At 20:45, the Consell d'Eivissa's Nits d'Art series stages Homens de la sal at the Phoenician settlement of Sa Caleta, on the island's south coast — open-air theatre performed inside a UNESCO-listed archaeological site that has been there since the seventh century BC. Free entry. It is the kind of thing that sells out the moment word gets round, so go early and take a cushion; the seating is what the site gives you.
An hour earlier and a few kilometres north, the Plaça de Sant Jordi hosts the fourteenth Back to School Festival, with Los Brazos, The Kleejoss Band, Uncle Sal and Blind Seekers from 18:00. This is one of Sant Josep's longest-running music events, it is free, and it is unapologetically a rock festival in a village square.
If you want something more formal, the Consell's 2026 dance season brings Nó by Compañía Elahood to the Centre Sociocultural de Cas Serres at 20:00 — an hour of urban and contemporary dance aimed at younger audiences, built around gender and class as a kind of dream sequence. Tickets are €8 in advance through Ticketib, €12 at the door.
Las Dalias Says Goodnight (27–29 September)
The Las Dalias night market in Sant Carles closes its season with three final evenings on 27, 28 and 29 September, stalls and food and live music from 19:00. If you have been meaning to go all summer, this is the deadline.
Monday 28 is the one to circle: Peace N' Music marks the venue's fortieth anniversary and runs in three parts, moving from the night market through the garden and into the Akasha room, built around the free-form spirit of the late sixties and seventies rather than any single genre. Garden access is free; the club room is €15. The crowd leans local and long-stay, which is precisely the point.
Formentera is having its own weekend. The third Formentera Sona festival runs 25–27 September with concerts across the island, and the Magiclown festival — magic, circus, clown, humour and music — closes on Sunday 27 at 19:00 with Desconcierto by the Galician company Culturactiva at the Auditori Caló de s'Oli. Both free. The ferry from Ibiza Town takes about half an hour.
A Patron Saint, a Runway on the City Walls
Monday 28 September brings the second Ibiza Fashion Show to the Baluard de Sant Pere, one of the bastions of Dalt Vila's UNESCO-listed walls, from 17:00. Organised by photographer Marta Rojo with the Ajuntament d'Eivissa, it pairs models from the Miss Balears pageant with the Colla Pagesa de Buscastell — folk dress and contemporary fashion on a sixteenth-century rampart. Free.
Then on Tuesday 29 the island closes the month properly with the patron saint fiesta of Sant Miquel de Balansat, in Sant Joan de Labritja, from 11:00. The village church is the only rural church in Ibiza built on a cruciform plan, the result of expansions in the late seventeenth century, and the Benirràs chapel inside holds seventeenth-century frescoes. Expect solemn mass, a procession, ball pagès and a village that treats the day as its own. If you go to one thing on this list, consider this one.
The Free Music Circuit Is Still Running
Underneath the headline events, the island's weekly live-music grid continues — and in late September it thins out just enough that you can walk in.
Thursday brings the Argentine rock quintet Zafiro to Can Jordi Blues Station at 19:00, American folk and rock from Leilah & Iggi at the Cala Escondida beach bar (now relocated to the far end of Platja d'en Bossa), and flamenco at Racó Verd with Jahbless on reggae duty at 20:30. Saturday starts with blues at 11:30 in the Mercat de Sant Josep and two generations of the O'Brien family at Can Jordi from 13:00. Sunday evening belongs to Alma Cubana at the Tropicana beach bar in Es Jondal from 19:30, where the dancing is the main event. All free.
Practical Notes
Late September weather in Ibiza is reliable but no longer guaranteed — carry a light layer for anything that starts after sunset, especially on beaches and in the hills. Sunset is now falling before 20:15, so open-air events listed at 20:00 or later are genuinely night events.
Buses reduce frequency from October, but the September timetable still holds this week; check the last return before committing to an evening in a village. For Es Figueral and Sa Caleta, driving is realistically the only option, and both fill their parking quickly.
Most of what is listed here is free and unticketed, so the only thing that can go wrong is arriving late. For the two that need tickets — Nó at Cas Serres and the Akasha club room — book ahead.
Full listings, times and updates for every event on this page are on ibiza-calendar.com. See you at the fair.
