The country stops for these.
Carnival closes the main avenue for eleven days. Kataklysmos is a feast celebrated nowhere else on earth. The wine festival has run since 1961 and predates the tourism industry. Here they are in the order you will meet them.
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The next 12 events from Visit Cyprus — Deputy Ministry of Tourism, read live from their own calendar — not a list we typed out. Photographs are theirs, served from their site and credited on each card.
The fixed points that come round every year, in the order you will meet them — carnival, Kataklysmos, the wine festival.
Timed to World Tourism Day. Folk dancing, theatre and the old agricultural customs — the town's own festival rather than the club season.
7festivals, ordered by what is next from today. Dates come from the Deputy Ministry of Tourism’s own annual programme and each one links to its source — we do not publish a date we cannot point at. Carnival and Kataklysmos move with Orthodox Easter, so until the ministry publishes next year’s programme we show the season rather than a date we worked out ourselves.
Twelve months of processions, harvests and sport, folded in from the old calendar guide.
Cyprus's biggest street party. Children's parade Sunday, grand parade the following.
Lent picnic day — vegetarian, in the countryside, kite-flying.
Country shuts down. Holy Saturday midnight Resurrection, flouna pastries, lamb on the spit.
Spring flower parades across Limassol, Paphos, Larnaca, Nicosia.
Multi-day waterfront festival in Larnaca + smaller in every coastal town.
Opera in the open-air Paphos Castle courtyard, 3 nights.
11-day open-air festival in Limassol Municipal Gardens.
If you have neighbours with trees you'll be picking. Worth saying yes.
Epiphany (Jan 6) — bishops bless the harbours; teenagers dive for crosses.
Half-distance triathlon in Limassol — closes the seafront road.
The fixed points in the business calendar — useful for orientation, property research, and meeting people in your industry.
Dates vary year-to-year — always check the official site before booking flights around an event.
The biggest local property + investment expo.
www.cyprusps.com/ ↗Yacht + lifestyle expo for the marina set.
www.limassolmarina.com/ ↗Limassol's huge forex/fintech industry crowds out.
expo.finance/cyprus/ ↗Free entry, wine villages bring tastings.
www.limassolmunicipal.com.cy/wine-festival/ ↗Trade exhibition — useful if relocating a business.
cyprusfair.com.cy/ ↗Best Saturday morning ritual on the island.
Cyprus Tourism Organisation guides; free.
Several local groups run guided weekend hikes.
Check Meetup.com + relevant FB groups.
