Cyprus celebrates. A lot. Here are the festivals worth planning a trip around.
Cyprus packs an astonishing amount into the year. Easter is the most important feast, but barely a weekend passes without something on: carnival and flower parades in spring, music festivals and open-air theatre in summer, wine and harvest festivals in autumn, Christmas markets and village lights in winter. Tap any festival below for its story and visitor tips, then scroll down for the full island-wide calendar.
Feb/MarEleven days of serenades, satire, costume parties and parades before Lent, ending with the Grand Parade.
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Feb/MarThe first day of Lent and a public holiday: families picnic outdoors, fly kites and eat Lenten food.
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Apr/MayThe most important feast of the Orthodox year: Holy Week services, the midnight Resurrection, bonfires and flaounes.
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MaySpring parades of flower-decked floats, named after an ancient Greek festival of Dionysus.
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MayTwo May weekends celebrating the village's Damask roses, with rosewater making, local products and folk music.
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May/JunA one-day festival with free strawberries, music and stalls in the island's main strawberry-growing town.
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May/JunThe Festival of the Flood, 50 days after Orthodox Easter, with seafront fairs, music and poetry duels.
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Jun to SepOpen-air beer festivals with live music and food, from Limassol in June to Paphos in August and Nicosia in September.
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JulyThe municipality’s July festival of music, dance and theatre.
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Jul/AugThree days of local and international music at the turn of July and August.
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Sep/OctA village festival for Commandaria, the sweet wine made only in 14 villages of the Limassol hills.
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Jun/JulA village evening of watermelon treats, live music and dancing in the Famagusta district.
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Early SepInternational opera staged in the open air in front of Paphos's medieval castle.
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Sep/OctNine evenings of wine tasting, music and folk dance in the Municipal Gardens, held since 1961.
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Sep/OctThe village where pasteli is still made the traditional way celebrates its carob harvest.
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Sep/OctVillage feasts with palouze making, wine tasting and folk music after the grape harvest.
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OctoberFive evenings of medieval parades, street shows and concerts around the town's old monastery.
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Nov/DecLarnaca switches on its Christmas lights with free concerts in its central squares.
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DecTwo December markets: more than 100 stalls for one weekend near Pyla, and street food and stalls at Zouhouri Square.
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DecTwo December weekends of Christmas gift stalls, Santa photos and a children's show.
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Nov to JanA Christmas market at Eleftheria Square, a fair in the moat and festive lights across the centre.
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Nov to JanNine villages, four of them in the Troodos, light up their squares with markets and workshops.
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31 DecFree countdown parties in the town centres, with midnight fireworks on Larnaca's seafront.
History & visitor tips →Every town, one view. Browse month by month and click any day to see what's on: festivals, concerts, markets and more, with dates, venues and links where known. Festival days carry a little picture so the big occasions stand out.
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