Things to Do in Cyprus in November 2026: 10 Picks

Camille O’Sullivan sings her first show in Cyprus, a set dedicated to the artists who shaped her: Shane MacGowan, Sinéad O’Connor, David Bowie, Radiohead, Jacques Brel and Nick Cave. Each song turns into a short theatrical story, her voice, mood and body language changing from one character to the next. Familiar songs come out passionate, dramatic, sometimes wild and deeply sincere.

Open water racing comes to Ayia Napa Marina for a weekend in the international OCEANMAN series. Friday 6 November is registration and the expo. Saturday brings the 2 km Sprint, a kids' race and a team relay. Sunday holds the main distances, the 10 km OCEANMAN and the 5 km Half OCEANMAN. You sign up on the official OCEANMAN site.

Swiss band Samael play Cyprus for the first time, carrying more than 30 years that run from early black metal to symphonic and industrial sound, plus their 2026 singles «Hidden Empire» and «Hail to the Sun». Two Cypriot bands share the night: Godblood, formed in Nicosia in 1990 and part of the island's early black metal scene, and Nicosia black metal band Temple of Evil.

Bollmann flies in from Munich with hard techno shot through with schranz and industrial elements, built on distorted kicks and relentless rhythms. Dreus, Rakoto and Xissix fill out the bill for this Friday the 13th edition from the Delirium Chamber crew, now past their two-year anniversary. The music runs until 03:30.

Soap bubbles of every size, small to enormous, float through the air as Mr & Mrs Bubble from Fabrica Athens work with handmade tools and everyday objects. Children help create the show themselves, and in the finale every child steps inside a giant bubble for a photo. It suits ages 2 and up, and it plays in Nicosia and Larnaca.

Richard Clayderman, the French pianist billed as the "Prince of Romance", plays Cyprus for the first time with a string ensemble of Cypriot musicians. You hear "Ballade pour Adeline" and "L for Love" alongside film themes from Mission: Impossible and James Bond, arranged for piano and strings, with lighting and video projections running through the show.

Waltzes, polkas and marches by Johann Strauss come to Paphos with the Strauss Virtuosi, first soloists of the Vienna Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra, on their first visit to the town. The programme looks back to the grandeur of 19th-century imperial Vienna, played in the Viennese style the orchestra has built its name on.

Thrash from Germany and New Jersey shares one stage. KREATOR bring their Krushers Of The World tour, behind a sixteenth album out on Nuclear Blast in January 2026. OVERKILL, formed in 1980, join them, and both bands are playing Cyprus for the first time. Cypriot old-school thrash and death metal band Daggr, whose debut came out in 2025, complete the bill.

Larnaca hosts the live presentation of "T", the new album from Mother of Millions, released on 11 September 2026 via ViciSolum Productions. It follows 2024's "Magna Mater" and takes on war, death and eternity, linking 19th-century American poets with 20th-century Greek poets. Think crushing riffs, thunderous rhythms and wide atmospheric layers in a progressive metal set.