Corfu

Introduction

Approaching Corfu

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Corfu (Kerkyra in Greek) is an island in the Ionian Sea, northwest of mainland Greece and also just a short boat ride from Albania. It's a popular destinations for people searching for good weather, nice landscapes and cultural and gastronomic highlights. The island has roughly 120,000 inhabitants.

Geography

Cities

• Corfu - the capital.

Sights and Activities

• Corfu's old town is declared a Unesco World Heritage Site.
• Church of St Spyridon is an amazing traditional Greek Orthodox Church.

Events and Festivals

Weather

Corfu has a typical Mediterranean climate with warm, dry and sunny summers and mild but wet winters. It's one of the wettest parts of Greece. During summer average temperatures are mostly around 30 degrees Celsius from June to September, with nights of 16-20 degrees Celsius. Winters last from December to February when it's between 13 an 16 degrees Celsius during the day and around 6 or 7 at night. Summers have only about 3 or 4 rainy days a month but from November to February about half of the days have rain with most of the rain falling during November and December, around 200mm each month! Snow and frost are very rare.

Getting There

By Plane

Corfu International Airport (CFU) has a wide range of airlines and destinations serving the island. Many of them are season (mosty April-October for example) and there are significanly less flights during the winterperiod. Air Berlin and TuiFly serve the German market, with flights to/from Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and the Swiss cities of Basel and Zürich.
Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways serve the British market, with destinations like London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, Cardiff, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle. Easyjet has flights from a few places as well.
Several other airlines fly to Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Malta, Barcelona, Vienna, Madrid, Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Oslo, Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Budapest.

By Boat

• Ionian Cruises has daily hydrofoils between Corfu and Saranda in Albania.

Getting Around

By Plane

By Train

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

Eat

Drink

Sleep