Introduction
Calvi is a city in the northwest of the French island and administrative region of Corsica.
Weather
Calvi has a Mediterranean climate with temperatures during the dry and warm summer (June-August) around 27-30 °C and averages lows around or just below 20 °C. Winters from December to February are mostly around 15 °C and nights around 5-7 °C. Most of the precipitation falls from October to March and the average annual amount is about 700 mm.
Getting There
By Plane
The airports of Ajaccio and Bastia are about equal distance of Calvi:
- Ajaccio – Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA) mainly has flights to other French cities including Paris, Lyon, Lille, Marseille and Bordeaux. International connections include Amsterdam, London and Geneva. Some flights are seasonal (April to October).
- Bastia – Poretta Airport (BIA) offers a range of flights to other French cities like Paris, Lille, Nantes, Toulouse and Bordeaux and international flights to London, Berlin, Hamburg and a few other cities.
By Boat
Corsica Ferries to Savona, Italy.
Sleep
| Property | Address | Type | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Western Premier Corsica | Route de Pietramagiori | HOTEL | - |
| Hotel Belvedere | Place Christophe Colomb | hotel | - |
| Hotel Cesario | Route de Calenzana | hotel | - |
| Motel Les Pins | Route de Porto | hotel | - |
Keep Connected
Phone
See also International Telephone Calls
Post
La Poste in France is also referred to as the PTT (short for postes, télégraphes et téléphones). The mailboxes are painted bright yellow and often there is a slot for local city mail and another slot for "outside mail". Normally there is a queue in the post office, but most of the post offices have the self service machine installed which is quite easy to operate. Nowadays many of the tabac and even some of the souvenir shops also sell postage stamps. Normally an overseas postcard costs almost as much as sending a letter.
Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 7:00pm Monday through Friday, and 8:00am to noon on Saturdays. Apart from the basic job of mailing letters, most of the post offices do some banking activities also and some even have photocopy machines and cyber cafes for internet access.
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