Larnaca Airport to Limassol: taxi, bus, transfer or hire car

TL;DR

Larnaca Airport to Limassol, defined. The most-travelled airport transfer in Cyprus, because Limassol has no airport of its own. It is 75.3 km by road to the New Port, running on the A5 and then the A1, and it is served by a fixed statutory taxi fare, a direct airport bus, a cheaper two-leg public route through Larnaca town, and a large pre-booked transfer market.

• 75.3 km to the New Port and 69.9 km to the Marina, so where in Limassol you are going changes the answer by 5.4 km.
• About 66 minutes with no traffic, on the A5 for 19.3 km and then the A1 for 42.1 km.
• The taxi is a fixed statutory fare: EUR 55 by day, EUR 65 at night, up to four. It is not metered, and no published figure above EUR 85 is lawful for this leg.
• The direct airport bus is EUR 10 a seat and runs about fifteen times a day. It beats the taxi at one, two, four and six people, and a two-leg route through Larnaca town is cheaper still at EUR 7.70.
• A pre-booked transfer was observed at EUR 87 for four, against a legal EUR 55 for the same car.
• Hire in Limassol and the minimum is two days on its own price card. Take delivery at Larnaca and it is one day on ours. There is no one-way between them.

Between 69.9 and 75.3 km, depending which part of Limassol you mean. The published answers disagree because Limassol is a long city and everyone measures to a different point in it.

Measured over the road network on 8 September 2026 from the terminal at 34.8751, 33.6249: the New Port at 34.6520, 33.0104 is 75.3 km and about 66 minutes, and the Marina at 34.6733, 33.0430 is 69.9 km and about 60 minutes. You reach the Marina 5.4 km before the port, because the road arrives from the east.

That is the whole explanation for a contradiction sitting in plain sight on the first page of Google. One transfer seller publishes 66.0 km. Another publishes 67 km. A distance calculator publishes 67 km driving. An aggregator publishes 71 km for the reverse direction. Google's AI Overview picks 66 km and states it as the road distance.

None of them is exactly wrong and none of them says which point it measured to. Publishing a coordinate costs nothing and settles it, which is why ours are above and in the method note below.

For planning purposes the useful version is simpler: it is a bit over an hour, and the last few kilometres are city driving that the motorway time does not include.

EUR 55 by day and EUR 65 at night for up to four passengers. It is a fixed statutory fare. It is not metered, and this is where most published answers go wrong.

The fare is set by K.D.P. 79/2021, published in the Official Gazette No. 5463 of 19 February 2021 and in force since 1 March 2021, which fixes fares for hires made from and to the airports. Larnaca Airport to Limassol is EUR 55 by day and EUR 65 at night for up to four passengers, and EUR 70 by day and EUR 85 at night for five or six. Day is 06:00 to 20:30. VAT and luggage are included, and the fares apply on public holidays too.

Now the part that matters. A widely-cited guide to this exact journey publishes the figure as "Taxi: EUR 55 ... Metered fare". The number is right and the description is wrong, and it is the description that protects you: a fixed fare cannot rise because the traffic was bad, because you had three suitcases, or because it was a bank holiday. If you believe the fare is metered, you have no way to tell a correct charge from an incorrect one.

Google's AI Overview compounds it, publishing "between EUR 55 and EUR 95 depending on your exact pickup point ... and time of day". The highest lawful cell for this leg is EUR 85, for five or six passengers at night. And an airport fare does not depend on the pickup point, and that is the entire purpose of fixing it.

The exception is real and worth knowing. The instrument covers hires from and to the airports. A journey that begins in Larnaca town has no fixed fare, and the metered urban tariff applies instead.

Yes, a direct one from the terminal at EUR 10 a seat, about fifteen times a day. There is also a cheaper two-leg route through Larnaca town at EUR 7.70.

The direct service is the Limassol Airport Express, which runs from the terminal to the Agios Georgios Havouzas station in Limassol for EUR 10 an adult. Its published timetable, valid as of 1 July 2026 when I read it, shows about fifteen departures a day between roughly 05:00 and 00:30. Children aged three to twelve are EUR 5.

The cheaper route is a change: urban route 425 from the terminal into Larnaca town at EUR 2.70, then the intercity service from the town to Limassol at EUR 5, which is EUR 7.70. The intercity leg has around twenty weekday departures from the town, so the connection is not fragile, but you are moving luggage between two buses to save EUR 2.30 a head.

The catch with the direct bus is not the price, it is the drop. Havouzas is one station in a city that runs for kilometres along the coast, so for many hotels the EUR 10 is followed by a local bus or a short taxi. That is the honest reason a transfer sells at all on this route.

Priced from the statutory instrument, the operators' own published fares, a dated transfer observation and our own dated rate card, for one, two and four people.

The transfer column is a dated observation and not a price I can vouch for. On 8 September 2026 Kiwitaxi published EUR 87 for a four-seat car on this route, and Transfeero listed EUR 118.32. Both are above the EUR 55 the law fixes for the same journey in the same size of car.

The fuel line is worth reading too. Seventy-five kilometres at six litres per hundred is about EUR 7.72 one way at the dearest Paphos pump on 8 September 2026. The drive itself costs less than a single bus seat.

Two kilometres of town road, 4.1 km of the A3, the A5 for 19.3 km, then 42.1 km of the A1, and about eight kilometres of city road at the end to reach the New Port. Four numbered roads and no difficult decision.

The route leaves the airport on Artemidos Avenue, joins the A3 westbound for a short stub, and then runs the A5, the Larnaca to Limassol motorway. What surprises people is that the A5 does not deliver you to Limassol. After 19.3 km it merges into the A1, the Nicosia to Limassol motorway, and the final 42.1 km are shared with traffic that never came near Larnaca.

In practice that means the busiest part of the journey is the end rather than the middle, and it is busy for a reason that has nothing to do with your flight. The last stretch into the city is where the junctions arrive quickly and where whatever variance the journey has is going to come from.

On tolls, the honest answer is that nobody who publishes one agrees with anybody else, and not one of the published answers is a government source. Our driving guide sets out all five, dated, and settles none, which is where that question belongs rather than being closed in a sentence here.

Speed limits, signs, alcohol limits, what your licence lets you drive and where a hire car stops being covered are all on our driving in Cyprus guide rather than repeated here.

A bus at every party size, on price alone: the two-leg route is always the cheapest and the direct one is worth the difference to avoid a change. The fixed-fare taxi when the drop matters more than the fare, which is most late arrivals and most families with luggage.

This route is unusual in that the arithmetic never crosses over. The direct bus is EUR 10 a seat against a EUR 55 car, so four people pay EUR 40 and six pay EUR 60 against EUR 70: cheaper than the taxi at every size. On the neighbouring Ayia Napa route, where the direct shuttle is EUR 13 a seat, that stops being true at four people. Here it does not. The two-leg route through Larnaca town undercuts the direct bus at every size as well, at EUR 7.70 a head, and the whole of what the extra EUR 2.30 buys is not changing buses with your luggage.

So the question is not really price, it is the last two kilometres. The bus leaves you at one station. If your hotel is near it, take the bus and the decision is easy. If it is at the far end of a city that runs for kilometres along the coast, the EUR 40 becomes EUR 40 plus a local taxi and two lots of luggage, and the EUR 55 fixed fare that stops at the door starts to look sensible.

The other case for the taxi is the clock. The airport bus stops running around half past midnight, and a delayed evening flight is exactly when a fixed fare with no surge and no surcharge is worth having.

A hire car is not competing on this leg either. The fuel for the journey is under EUR 8, so the drive is nearly free; what you are deciding is whether you want a car for the trip. If you are in Limassol for a city break with the seafront and the old town on foot, you do not need one. If you want Kourion, the wine villages or Troodos, no bus is going to take you.

Landing at Larnaca and heading somewhere else? The other two runs from the same terminal are measured the same way, from the same instrument and the same coordinates: Larnaca Airport to Ayia Napa is 59.6 km at a fixed EUR 50, and it is the one route where the per-seat bus stops being the cheap option at four people. Larnaca Airport to Paphos is 134.3 km at a fixed EUR 105, and no intercity bus leaves that terminal at all.

It is a real decision with real money in it, because the two ends are on different price cards with different minimum hires, and you cannot change your mind, because there is no one-way.

Most companies treat this as one question. At Rents in Cyprus it is two, and the honest answer depends on how long you want the car.

Take delivery at the Larnaca end and the car comes from the Paphos card at Paphos rates, with a one-day minimum hire. Collect at the Limassol office at Andrea Zaimi 11a and it comes from the Limassol card, which is tiered by the length of the whole rental and will not hire a car for less than two days.

So a single overnight is only possible at the Larnaca end. From a few days upward the Limassol card is the one to read, and its bands step down at eight days, fifteen days and twenty-two.

There is one length at which the Limassol end wins outright, and it is worth knowing because it runs against the general rule. The cheapest car on the Paphos card falls a long way on a long hire, to EUR 17 a day from thirty days, which is about EUR 390 less than the cheapest Limassol car over a month. The mid-range hatchback goes the other way: the Paphos card holds it at EUR 40 a day from seven days onward and never drops below that, while the Limassol Economy band steps down to EUR 35 at fifteen days and EUR 30 at twenty-two. So for that class of car, from fifteen days, Limassol is the cheaper end, by EUR 300 over a thirty-day hire.

The constraint that catches people is the return. Returns are same-town only. There is no one-way between any two of the company's cities, and a car returned to the wrong location is charged from EUR 300. That is the single most expensive assumption anyone makes about it, and it is worth checking with whoever you hire from rather than assuming, because a one-way fee is frequently not published until the end of a booking flow.

One more thing that is specific to Larnaca. There is no counter there. Larnaca, Nicosia and Ayia Napa are served by delivery to an address you give, and no delivery charge for those three is published, so it is quoted when you ask. The company's own counters are in the Paphos area and in Limassol.

Before you land

Five things worth settling before you get to the arrivals hall, because all five are more expensive to fix afterwards.

• Know which part of Limassol you are going to. The city is long and the bus drops at one station.
• Check your landing time. The statutory night fare starts at 20:30, and the airport bus stops around 00:30.
• If you want a car, decide which end you are collecting at. The two ends are on different price cards with different minimums.
• Whichever end you choose, you return it to the same end. There is no one-way.
• If someone quotes you above EUR 85 for an airport taxi on this leg, it is above the statutory maximum.

Every fare, timetable and distance on this page was read between 3 and 8 September 2026, and the source sits at the claim rather than in a list here.