The Ibiza Census 2026.

Ibiza is sold on headliners. It is run on repetition. In early August we read the island's public party calendar the way an accountant reads a ledger: 2,107 dated event listings across 17 fixed venue calendars, carrying 6,423 named artist credits, every one counted and filed. What emerges is a season with an actual shape. July wins by a nose, not a mile. The peak is not a golden weekend but an eleven-week plateau. And the hardest-working names on the island are not the ones on the airport billboards. They are the residents, logging up to five public billings a week while the billboards pose.

The base is the public Ibiza Spotlight party calendar, read in non-overlapping Monday-to-Sunday windows from 20 April to 1 November 2026. Seventeen venues with fixed calendars make up the sample: Ushuaïa, [UNVRS], Pacha, Hï, Amnesia, Akasha at Las Dalias, Destino Five, 528, O Beach, Cova Santa, Chinois, Eden, Lío, Ibiza Rocks Pool Club, Es Paradis, Bam-Bu-Ku and Playa Soleil. The monthly archive pages stay live if you fancy counting along: start in April, finish in October.

The units are deliberately boring. One event listing (an "event row" in the data file) is one dated entry at one venue: not a room count, not a ticket count, not a crowd. One named credit is one artist name publicly linked on that listing, so an artist billed twice is counted twice. We removed 122 generic labels ("special guests", "resident DJs" and other ways of saying nobody in particular) and kept names only. Where the source treats a back-to-back set as a single linked billing, so do we.

What the census cannot see, it does not invent. Of the 2,107 listings, 358 exposed no artist name on the public card, often hiding a supporting cast behind "see full line-up", so every artist total here is a floor rather than a ceiling. DC-10, Pikes, the villa circuit, free parties and any venue absent from the source calendar sit outside the sample entirely. This is a census of one public calendar, counted honestly. It is not a register of every party on a famously unregisterable island.

Download the Ibiza Census 2026 aggregate data (CSV). The file contains the month, week, weekday, venue and artist tables used in this report.

July leads with 452 event listings, and the internet will tell you July is everything. The ledger shrugs. August posts 440 and June 419: measured in listings per day that is 14.6 against 14.2 against 14.0, a gap of about half a listing a day between the famous month and its neighbours. September holds 343, comfortably clear of May's 297. April opens with 49 from the 21st. October winds down with 107 as the arenas bow out and the smaller rooms keep the lights on.

The number that matters is not the peak but the plateau. From 8 June to 23 August, all eleven weeks land between 99 and 106 listings: a seven-listing spread over eleven weeks. Whatever the villa people tell you, late June and mid-August are the same island. The cliff arrives in autumn, and it is abrupt. The week of 21 September carries 84 listings. The week after carries 42. The calendar halves in seven days flat.

Closing season is a stagger, not a full stop. The big weekly programmes are done by 11 October. Out east, Akasha at Las Dalias keeps publishing dates to 31 October, and Es Paradis, the San Antonio original open since 1975, runs to the 30th. The season ends the way it began: in the smaller rooms, long after the arenas have shipped their rigs home.

Saturday is the fullest day of the census week with 365 listings, a tidy one for every day of the year. Friday sits two behind on 363. Then the table refuses to collapse: Sunday and Thursday tie on 302, Wednesday holds 272, Tuesday 266, and Monday brings up the rear with 237, which still averages more than eight options every Monday of the season.

Treat that Monday figure as the floor of the floor. The island's most famous Monday, Circoloco at DC-10, sits entirely outside this sample, and David Guetta's F*** Me I'm Famous holds Mondays at Ushuaïa into early October. Even the ledger's quietest day has a headline economy the ledger cannot see.

The practical reading is simple. The weekend premium is real but mild: a Monday calendar still runs at 65% of a Saturday. Ibiza does not take a day off. It takes a slightly quieter Monday.

Type "best DJ in Ibiza" into a search engine and the answer arrives pre-sold. A calendar answers a plainer question: who gets named, again and again, for six straight months? By that measure the leaderboard belongs to the payroll, not the poster. The first global headliner appears at number eight. Ahead of him sit four O Beach residents, the venue's own percussionist, a poolside specialist with one party to his name and a San Antonio DJ working two rooms. Between them, the top ten hold 597 credits: 9.3% of every public billing on the island, in ten pairs of hands.

The band just outside the ten mixes celebrity and payroll without blinking. Black Coffee counts 28 credits, Paco Osuna and Calvin Harris 27 apiece, Jan & Calvin 26, then a 25-credit line where CAMELPHAT sit level with Perry Martin and Parris Taylor. Further down, Solomun ties on 22 with Skepta, Jason Bye, Nomis, Damon Hess, Dream Team and La Movida: global names and working residents sharing a line, which is rather the point. These are calendar credits, not fees or crowd sizes. Frequency answers only frequency, and it is serenely unimpressed by fame.

One check for the sceptical. The census counted Calvin Harris at exactly 27 credits, all at one venue. Ushuaïa's announced 2026 programme for him, Tuesdays and Fridays combined, runs to exactly 27 dates. The ledger and the poster agree, which is the kind of thing that happens when you count instead of guess.

Volume rewards staying put. Breadth rewards being wanted everywhere. AMÉMÉ and Eats Everything each collect 14 credits across seven of the seventeen venues; M-High covers the same seven rooms in eleven credits. Nobody in the high-volume top ten reaches beyond four venues. The two leaderboards barely share a postcode.

The six-venue tier is where the working island shows itself. Sven Väth pairs 20 credits with six rooms, the veteran trick of volume and breadth at once. Joseph Capriati posts 15 across six, Manda Moor 12, then Alisha, Archie Hamilton, HoneyLuv and Patrick Topping on ten each, with Julian Fijma, Fleur Shore, Arielle Free, Obskür and TSHA completing the tier. One rung down, Andrea Oliva matches that trick with 23 credits across five venues. If you want to know who the whole island trusts, read this table. The billboards are not on it.

By programme volume the superclubs do not even lead. Es Paradis tops the sample on 176 dated listings, thrown under the glass pyramid it has worn since 1990, in the San Antonio room it has kept since 1975. Pacha follows on 165, O Beach on 164, Amnesia on 153, Akasha on 152, then Hï on 142, Chinois on 137, Ibiza Rocks on 133, with [UNVRS] and Lío tied on 132. Read the bars as diary density, not size: a sunset session and a 10,000-capacity arena night each count as one listing.

Two footnotes keep the table honest. Destino Five shows just two listings, not because the clifftop resort above Talamanca is asleep but because its open-air programme mostly lives outside the nightlife calendar we sampled: a coverage gap, disclosed rather than painted over. And none of these counts measure capacity, attendance or takings. Those are different books, and nobody publishes them.

The switch flips during IMS week, the industry's spring summit, held 22–24 April in 2026. Our first window, 20–26 April, catches 33 listings and the opening moves at Pacha, Hï, Ushuaïa, [UNVRS], Eden and Ibiza Rocks. By the week of 25 May the count reaches 81; a week later, 92; the week after that, the plateau. The island does not ease into summer so much as sprint at it.

Group the seventeen calendars by geography and the postcard map redraws itself. San Antonio and its hills file 751 of the 2,107 listings, more than a third of the sampled island: Es Paradis (176), O Beach (164), Ibiza Rocks (133), Eden (131), 528 up in Benimussa (74) and Bam-Bu-Ku (73). The harbour side of Ibiza Town answers with 434 through Pacha (165), Chinois (137) and Lío (132). Playa d'en Bossa, home of the superclub arms race, holds 360 across Hï (142), Ushuaïa (129) and Playa Soleil (89).

The San Rafael road adds 285 between Amnesia (153) and [UNVRS] (132), the newcomer built on the old Privilege site. The countryside carries the rest, 277 in all: Akasha out east at Las Dalias (152), Cova Santa in the San José hills (123) and Destino Five's two listed dates. The reputation says Ibiza happens in the superclubs. The paperwork says it happens everywhere, and that San Antonio, the corner the style press writes off, files more of it than anyone.

Booking for maximum choice: any week from 8 June to 23 August, so let flight prices pick the week; the calendar will not notice. Trading crowds for value: June gives you 92.7% of July, and September (343 listings) out-programmes May (297) by a comfortable 46. Landing on a Monday: relax. The census counts 237 Monday listings before DC-10 even enters the conversation.

Arguing about DJs: separate depth from range before you start. A resident with 120 home fixtures and a traveller covering seven rooms on 14 dates are both having excellent summers; they are selling different things. The frequency table tells you who works. The breadth table tells you who is wanted everywhere. Neither tells you who is best, and the census is comfortable with that.

This page keeps the ledger. For the opinionated version of the same world, continue to Top DJs for Summer 2026, Listed, the Top 100 DJs of 2026, the Best House DJs of 2026 and the dated Ibiza Closing Parties 2026. Those pages argue. This one counts.