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Cyprus

3 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights

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Khirokitia · Photo: Ophelia2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Nicosia
Currency: EUR; Euro
Local time: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +357
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G

Facts

Cyprus in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Nicosia
Currency: Euro EURToday's indicative rate: EUR 1 ≈ USD 1.12Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Greek and TurkishSpoken: Greek, Turkish and English
Time zones: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +357
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G240 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112general emergency1400ambulance199fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 1,370,754 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 9,250 km²
Internet domain: .cy
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Cyprus

In March to June and September to November, more than half of the 3 cities with figures in Cyprus have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Nicosia	14°	15°	18°	22°	27°	33°	36°	36°	32°	27°	21°	16°
Larnaca	16°	16°	19°	22°	26°	31°	33°	33°	31°	27°	22°	17°
Paphos	13°	14°	17°	20°	24°	28°	31°	31°	29°	25°	20°	16°
Cities good for going, of 3	0	0	2	3	3	2	1	1	2	3	3	0

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Cyprus is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Cyprus

All 3 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Cyprus

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Cyprus

Tell us where in Cyprus, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.