the Climate of Cyprus

According to physicians, on light not too is a lot of places with such healthy Mediterranean climate, as on Cyprus. On island 330  sunny days in a year, but rest seasonal - in May-November. The sun is especially ample in the season from April till September when duration of bright sunniness attains 11  hours a day. With approach of winter resort life fades. Authorities carefully watch ecology, therefore both air, and the sea here are unusually pure.

The Spring to Cyprus comes in February. Hillsides are covered with a bright flavovirent carpet of grasses with red, white, blue and violet specks of flowers. In valleys turn green weeding, vineyards and gardens revive. Air is sated with savour of lemon arbours and a jasmin. The rivers are wrested by rough torrents from mountain gorges and overflow banks.

  the Hot dry summer begins in the middle of May and lasts till October. The summer on Cyprus - is time tormenting heat; the thermometer style in a shade is quite often lifted to 40  °C. All nature fades: grasses fade and burn out, all rivers dry up almost. Under the Cyprian sun even in October to scorch easier, than under Crimean in July. To smear a back with yoghurt on the international resorts it is not accepted, but to mould on a nose a fig leaf - method quite international. If to dive into the sea with a mask, - on the sun that part of a body which adjoins to rubber most strongly burns. It is possible to suffer and from endocyclic echinoids - wounds from their acute needles long do not heal.

The First rains (them on Cyprus wait with the big impatience) give warning on approach of autumn. The autumn on this surprising island is completely not similar to ours. Slopes of mounts again put on the magnificent green dress; cyclamens, hyacinths, cloves and buttercups blossom.

Winter on Cyprus too the unusual: air temperature is seldom hauled down more low 15  °C. The coldest month in a year - January. Character at the Cyprian winter rainy and changeable - sunny days occur intermittently slow soaking rains and the cloudy root. The rivers are crowded by water and overflow banks.

Snow on Cyprus falls out only in mounts Troodosa and is kept in December-April; it is quite enough of it for skiing. As it is paradoxical, on island it is a lot of fans of mountain skis, fads, hockey and other winter aspects of sport. And all in tens kilometres from snow caps Troodosa at the coast bordered with shady palm trees and messmates, there is a dry solar weather - the Cyprian woman's summer! The inhabitants of northern countries not spoilt by heat bathe in the sea and at this time year though the temperature of water does not exceed 17-18  °C.

Monthly average temperature of air (°s)

Monthly average temperature of water (°s)