There is a mild meditterranean weather in Limassol. Enjoyable throughout the year, like in the rest of Cyprus. Limassol offers a lot of enjoyable sunshine.
The summer starts from middle of May and goes to the end of October. This long summer gives you a lot of time to visit the beautiful Limassol beaches, and since Limassol offers the longest combined beach line of the rest of the cities of Cyprus, it also means easy and fast access to the sea.
November is the main autumn month, this means there are cooler evenings. Many people still like to swim till the end of November. December and January are teh winter months, but there are still 6 hours of sunshine everyday.
The early spring days start from the beginning of February. Spring is a wonderful period in Limassol as it brings a lot of green that surrounds (or covers) the many ancient ruins around Limassol.
When you are visiting Limassol you will meet all kinds of people; young, old, cypriots and foreigners. Limassol is becoming an international city attracting people from all over the world.
When it comes to the actual Limassol-born people you will notice that these people are freindly, approachable, down to earth and always willing to assist. If you ask someone to give you directions to a location, he or she will probably take you there.
It is not hard to navigate in Limassol because it is a relatively small city and easy to understand. Limassol has 4 main roads almost running in parallel and crossing Limassol from West to East. Starting from the South of Limassol and going North there is:
- An avenue running parallel to the Limassol beach. This avenue starts from the small round about of Limassol old port going (following the coast line) outside of Limassol.
- The main Limassol avenue: Makarios 3 Avenue, running almost through the center of Limassol.
- Spyros Kyprianou Avenue (also known as Makedonias Avenue) which crosses Limassol from West to East.The highway, which allows traffic going from Paphos to Nicosia to bypass the 6 round abouts.
- You will not find a huge traffic in Limassol. Especially with the introduction of the highway bridges, bottlenecks are reduced to a minimum.
If you don’t have your own car to travel around Limassol there is a good taxi system as you can find a taxi almost instantly. There is also a moderate bus service running from 7am to 7pm with busses crossing the town from one end to the other.