What's on in Larnaca (Ayia Napa), Cyprus through the year

Quiet — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Flamingos on the salt lake (15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)), Winter low season (15 Nov – 15 Mar)

Quiet — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Flamingos on the salt lake (15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)), Winter low season (15 Nov – 15 Mar)

Shoulder season — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Flamingos on the salt lake (15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)), Winter low season (15 Nov – 15 Mar)

Shoulder season — school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in April.

Busy — Kataklysmos, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Kataklysmos

  20 May – 25 Jun · usuallyMajor festivalCrowded

  Cyprus keeps Pentecost as a water festival and Larnaca's is the big one: days of stalls and boat races along Finikoudes, and strangers throwing water over each other. It moves with Orthodox Easter. Source ↗

Busy — Kataklysmos, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

• Season

  Sea warm enough

  1 Jun – 15 Nov · usually

  The eastern Mediterranean is the warmest water in Europe by late summer and it stays swimmable here into November. The Zenobia wreck off the port is dived year round in a thin suit.

Still on: Kataklysmos (20 May – 25 Jun (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Hazard

  Midsummer heat

  1 Jul – 31 AugExtreme heat

  Inland afternoons are the problem rather than the seafront, where the breeze helps; the drive to Nicosia or the Troodos monasteries in the middle of the day is the part to move. Source ↗

Still on: Sea warm enough (1 Jun – 15 Nov (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: Sea warm enough (1 Jun – 15 Nov (usually)), Midsummer heat (1 Jul – 31 Aug)

Busy — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: Sea warm enough (1 Jun – 15 Nov (usually))

Busy — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in October.

Still on: Sea warm enough (1 Jun – 15 Nov (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Nature

  Flamingos on the salt lake

  15 Nov – 31 Mar · usuallyBirdlife season

  Several thousand flamingos winter on the salt lake behind the airport, a ten-minute walk from the Hala Sultan Tekke. By late spring the water has gone and the lake is a white crust until the rains.

• Season

  Winter low season

  15 Nov – 15 MarOff-season shutdown

  The Finikoudes seafront empties, room rates fall by half and the sea is too cold for most people. Walkers and cyclists get the Troodos foothills and the coast path to themselves.

Still on: Sea warm enough (1 Jun – 15 Nov (usually))

Quiet — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in December.

Still on: Flamingos on the salt lake (15 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)), Winter low season (15 Nov – 15 Mar)