🇨🇾Cyprus

Cyprus spans 34°33′–35°42′N as the third-largest island in the Mediterranean with an area of approximately 9,251 km², positioned at the eastern Mediterranean meeting point of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Two main mountain ranges shape the landscape: the Troodos massif rising to Mount Olympus at 1,952 m in the centre-southwest, and the narrow Kyrenia or Pentadactylos range along the north coast, with the fertile Mesaoria plain stretching between them.

Classic Mediterranean climate Csa dominates the lowlands including Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, and Famagusta, transitioning to cooler humid Mediterranean Csb on the Troodos foothills and to highland Cfb or Dsb with snow above 1,500 m on the Troodos summit area.

Nicosia in the Mesaoria plain averages 10°C in January and 29°C in July with extreme summer maxima climbing above 44°C, making it the eastern Mediterranean's hottest capital, and receives about 330 mm of winter-concentrated rainfall. Limassol on the south coast is milder with roughly 380 mm, while Mt Olympus on Troodos receives approximately 1,000 mm with substantial winter snow supporting a small ski area.

Summers are bone dry from June through September under the Azores High, while intense Saharan dust storms occur regularly. The eastern Mediterranean is warming roughly 20 percent faster than the global average: the 2010 and 2024 heatwaves brought multiple days exceeding 45°C, recurrent severe droughts in 2008, 2014, 2018, and 2024 have stressed reservoirs, and climate-amplified wildfire seasons including the 2016 Solea event and the 2021 Arakapas fire, the deadliest in a generation, have marked the intensifying climate crisis.

Our archive covers 0 Cypriot cities with daily ERA5 reanalysis data going back to 1940.