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Year-round calendar
⌬1 source· n=1012 months of festivals, processions, sport, harvest.
Cyprus runs on a religious + agricultural calendar more than a tourist one. Knowing what's happening when stops you booking a flight on Easter weekend or missing the Limassol Wine Festival.
Year-round calendar
Limassol Carnival
February (2 weeks before Lent)Cyprus's biggest street party. Children's parade Sunday, grand parade the following.
Green Monday (Apokries)
Late Feb / early MarLent picnic day — vegetarian, in the countryside, kite-flying.
Greek Orthodox Easter
April or May (lunar)Country shuts down. Holy Saturday midnight Resurrection, flouna pastries, lamb on the spit.
Anthestiria flower festival
MaySpring flower parades across Limassol, Paphos, Larnaca, Nicosia.
Kataklysmos · Festival of the Flood
Early June (Pentecost)Multi-day waterfront festival in Larnaca + smaller in every coastal town.
Pafos Aphrodite Festival
Early SeptemberOpera in the open-air Paphos Castle courtyard, 3 nights.
Limassol Wine Festival
Late August / early September11-day open-air festival in Limassol Municipal Gardens.
Olive harvest
October–NovemberIf you have neighbours with trees you'll be picking. Worth saying yes.
Christmas & Epiphany
December–JanuaryEpiphany (Jan 6) — bishops bless the harbours; teenagers dive for crosses.
Ironman Cyprus
NovemberHalf-distance triathlon in Limassol — closes the seafront road.
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