Monitoring programs are important tools that enable scientists to identify marine species assemblages, to assess their status, and to detect environmental changes or disturbances that might influence benthic communities. The increase in seawater temperature constitutes one of such changes, and it may result in rising proportions of thermophilic biota of marine habitats in temperate regions. The arrival and establishment of tropical and subtropical species, a phenomenon known as tropicalization, has been reported in many areas in the Mediterranean Sea as global warming intensifies. With the aim of evaluating the environmental status of Mediterranean infralittoral rocky bottoms as part of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) (2008/56/EC), underwater visual censuses (UVCs) were conducted in 22 stations of the Balearic Archipelago. At each sampling station, scuba divers surveyed fish and benthic communities along 50-meter transects (four replicates per dive). This study was restricted to rocky bottoms between 5 and 18 m depth. Fish were identified, and their abundance and size were recorded within a 50 x 5 m belt transect. Macroinvertebrates were surveyed using 50 × 50 cm quadrats placed every two meters along each transect. Within each quadrat, species and abundances were recorded. Finally, macroalgae coverage was measured recording the species found every 20 cm along each transect. Surveys were conducted in 2022 and repeated in the same stations in 2025. Comparisons between both periods revealed increases in the frequency of warm-affinity species such as the fish Sparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostea, Scaridae) and Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815) (Teleostea, Carangidae); the invertebrates Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766) (Annelida, Polychaeta, Amphinomidae) and Telmatactis cricoides (Duchassaing, 1850) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria); and the algae Penicillus capitatus (Lamarck, 1813) (Chlorophyta, Halimedaceae). Our findings highlight the importance of monitoring programs to identify evidence of processes such as tropicalization and provide timely information to respond to shifting marine ecosystems.