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A rocky inlet under high cliffs on the north coast, with no sand at all and a walk in, used mostly by snorkellers and divers.

Six beaches carry most of the island's visitors, and they are not interchangeable. We have set out what each one is actually good for.

Ses Illetes takes the crowds, which leaves the north coast, the far end of Migjorn and a handful of coves to everyone else.

Five places across the island that are worth a drive rather than a walk, with the seasons that decide whether the door will be open.

A chiringuito on Ses Salines since 1993, inside the natural park, where breakfast on the sand runs until the middle of the day.

A ten-table French bistro off Plaza del Parque, with chequered tiles, an open kitchen and a menu short enough to read in a minute.

A restaurant, juice bar and treatment room on Benirras in the north, busiest on the Sunday afternoons when the drummers gather for the sunset.

An open beach beside Es Canar, one of the very few on Ibiza that gets surfable waves, with dunes behind it and currents worth respecting.

The good snorkelling is wherever rock meets sand, because that edge is where the fish are and where the water stays clear.

A wide horseshoe of white sand ten minutes from San Jose, held between pine hills, with water shallow enough to walk a long way out.

Fifty-six hectares of certified organic farmland at Santa Eulalia, growing most of what ends up on the island's better tables.

The sandstone quarry below Torre des Savinar that supplied the walls of Dalt Vila, now a staircase of cut rock and seawater pools facing Es Vedra.

Three hundred metres of west-coast sand with pine wood right behind it, a roped swimming area, and a ferry from San Antonio through the season.

A restaurant inside a sixteenth-century chapel on a hill above San Antonio, with stone arches, candles and a garden terrace facing the sunset.

A terraced beach club above Cala Tarida on the west coast, and one of the few that keeps its doors open at weekends through the winter.

Nine hundred metres of calm shallow water across the harbour from Ibiza Town, with a boardwalk the length of it and places that stay open all year.

Which beaches on Formentera suit a family day, and how to reach them without a long walk in the sun.

A cliff-side restaurant above the cove at Sol d'en Serra, built in three levels, with films under the stars on Tuesday evenings in June.

A family restaurant in the village of San Lorenzo, open all year, with tables under the orange trees in summer and fires lit in the winter.

Two and a half kilometres of sand south of Ibiza Town, the longest beach on the island, with the noise at one end and the quiet at the other.

A beach restaurant above the sand at Cala Nova, where the day starts with yoga and breakfast by the water rather than with a sunbed.

Two carved wooden doors standing in open ground above Cala Llentia, part of the same cliff-top pair of works as the stone circle beside them.

A tiny horseshoe cove in the far north, reached down a rough track past the ruin of a hotel that a famous architect never finished.

Four hundred metres of east-facing sand in the north of Ibiza, held between high rock, with shallow water and a full set of facilities behind it.