Cyprus in January: snow at 1,951 m, an hour from the sea

Ski in the morning, Roman ruins by the sea in the afternoon. Cyprus in January ❄️☀️ Do the coast first and save the mountains for the end. Finishing in the snow is the bit you'll remember. In January Cyprus gets about six hours of sunshine a day, the plains sit around 10 °C and the sea around 16 to 17 °C. And the mountains in the middle usually have snow. 🚗 Larnaca: land, pick up the car, and drive on the left 🚗 About 1 h to Limassol, the seafront city about an hour from the ski slopes 🏛️ About 20 min to Kourion, an ancient city on a clifftop over the sea with a Greco-Roman theatre: €4.50, 08:30 to 17:00 in winter 🌊 About 30 min to Petra tou Romiou, Aphrodite's Rock 🏛️ About 30 min to Paphos and its Roman mosaics: €4.50, 08:30 to 17:00 ⛷️ About 1 h 30 up to Troodos: Mount Olympus, 1,951 m, where skiing usually runs from early January to the end of March Both archaeological sites close on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and a one-day card for all state sites is €8.50 (2025 listing). Drive times are estimates without stops. 👉 Swipe for the route and the stops. Save this for your trip and send it to who you'd go with. Snow or sea first? 👇 📷 Secret Travel Guide secret-travel.guide / Unsplash · Institute for the Study of the Ancient World / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0