Cyprus Airbnb Performance by Area in 2026

Protaras is the exception to the usual trade-off between rate and nights: it charges more than any other area and still books 77% of August nights, second only to Polis. Part of that is the product — a median rate is shaped by the size and type of what is listed, and a resort coast lists different stock from a city centre — so compare like with like before reading the gap as location alone.

Paphos and Ayia Napa booked the same share of August nights (74%), but Ayia Napa’s higher rate ($218 against $164) puts its median listing about $800 ahead for the month. Nights sold and revenue are separate questions.

Revenue here is each listing’s own estimate — its occupancy × its advertised nightly rate × 31 nights — and the column shows the median of those. It is not the two median columns multiplied together: the median occupancy and the median rate rarely belong to the same listing, and across Cyprus that product reads $4,100 against the median listing’s $3,700. The nightly rate is what hosts advertise for August stays; Airbnb does not publish what a night actually sold for, so the revenue is an estimate, not a record of bookings.

Everything above describes areas, not properties. Protaras’s 77% occupancy and $7,100 estimate are medians across 735 actively-rented listings that differ in bedroom count, sea view, licensing status and how actively they are priced. Individual listings in every row sit above and below the area figure, and a weaker area does not rule out a strong specific asset in Larnaca any more than Protaras’s median guarantees one.

Use these numbers to decide which areas deserve a closer look. August is also the island’s peak: on the same listings, hosts ask 0.74 to 1.01 times their August rate for October stays and 0.52 to 0.98 times for December across the four districts, and our archive has not yet observed a Cyprus winter — so underwrite on all twelve months, never on August × 12. Brixfox computes per-property yield from the same calendar data, so once you have a shortlist you can test the actual unit, its size, its position and its comparables, instead of buying an area average.

Brixfox tracks 1.2M+ short-term-rental listings across 50+ countries and territories. For the listings whose Airbnb calendars it reads, it keeps each night’s final booked-or-open state in a night-by-night archive that began on 22 July 2026. This post covers August 2026, the first complete month that archive covers, and the Cyprus listings we track in the Paphos, Famagusta, Limassol and Larnaca districts with a full August calendar (25 or more nights observed). A listing counts as performing if it booked at least 10% of the month’s nights; occupancy and nightly rate are medians across performing listings, and estimated revenue is the median of each performing listing’s own estimate — its occupancy × its advertised nightly rate × 31 nights — which is not the two medians multiplied together and usually sits a little below that product. Nightly rates are what hosts advertise for August stays — Airbnb does not publish what a night actually sold for. A night closed on the calendar counts as booked, so some owner-blocked nights remain in the figures; calendars closed almost end to end with no detected booking are left out as unverifiable, and so are listings our data engine flags as likely owner-blocked. The October- and December-versus-August ratios compare the same listings’ advertised rates for those months (the median of each listing’s ratio). Informational, not investment advice.