Welcome to the BusCyprus Blog

BusCyprus shows live bus arrivals, stop timetables and route maps for public transport across Cyprus, in your browser and in the Android app. This blog is for everything that does not fit inside the app itself.

What this blog covers

• Airport transfers: reaching Paphos and Larnaca airports by bus instead of by taxi
• Intercity travel: getting between Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos and Ayia Napa. Start with Nicosia to Larnaca by bus, Nicosia to Limassol by bus, Limassol to Paphos by bus, Larnaca to Ayia Napa by bus or Ayia Napa to Paralimni by bus
• Fares and tickets: how to pay, what a journey costs, and which pass is worth it. Start with Cyprus bus fares and the Motion card
• App guides: planning a trip, tracking a bus in real time, and finding the stop nearest you

Why not just read the timetable?

A timetable tells you when the next bus leaves. It does not tell you whether the last bus back runs late enough for your flight, which stop to wait at when three of them share a name, or what to do when a route is diverted. Those answers need context, and that is what we write here.

Posts get updated, not replaced

Routes, fares and timetables change. Rather than publishing a new version of an article every year, we update the existing post and keep the same address, so a link you saved stays useful. Every post shows when it was published and, if we have changed it, when it was last updated.

Start here

• Open the live map to see arrivals at the stops around you
• Get the app for real-time tracking, trip planning, service alerts and nextbike bike sharing. Free on Android, with iOS on the way
• Which Cyprus bus app should you use? — how the official app and ours compare, and when you want each
• Flying into Larnaca? Our Larnaca Airport to the city guide covers route 425 and the alternatives, our Larnaca Airport to Ayia Napa guide covers the Kapnos shuttle and the public bus connection (for city to resort, see Larnaca to Ayia Napa by bus; to hop between the resorts see Ayia Napa to Paralimni by bus), our Larnaca Airport to Limassol guide covers the direct LAE shuttle and the intercity connection, and our Larnaca Airport to Paphos guide covers Kapnos, the LAE change in Limassol, and Intercity 56 into town. Going inland? The Larnaca Airport to Nicosia guide compares the overnight shuttle with the two-ticket public route.
• Not renting a car at all? How to travel Cyprus without a car covers which bases work on buses, which day trips do not, and what a rental still buys you
• Unsure which ticket applies? Cyprus bus fares and the Motion card maps urban, shuttle and pass products by district

Is there something you would like us to cover? Tell us.