Amathus E (outside MPA)Limassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Rock reef, 3–12 m, sea bream. ⚠️ Stay E of the Amathounta no-take MPA line.
Google MapsLimassol spearfishing forecast — wind, swell, visibility, tides & live cameras
5.3
wave 0.6 m head-on
visibility3m
Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and visibility.
Sources: IPMA · NDBC · Copernicus — high confidence · data 19:13
Sources & confidence
- Sources
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- Method
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- Freshness
- Re-read every hour, per coast
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine
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How we score the water
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Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
- Swell & wave memory
- Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
- Wind & gusts
- Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
- Tide phase
- Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
- Water temperature
- Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
- Currents & outflow
- Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
- Rain runoff & air clarity
- Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
- Coast shape & exposure
- How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.
Safety gates
- Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
- An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
- Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
- Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
- Night hours — forced red; the window is closed after dark.
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Entry points with coordinates
Seabed relief — promising ground
Surface
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
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calmupdated 19:13
Limassol — solo, off the rocks
caution — solo off the rocks is risky, check on site · wind-wave — choppy surface
wave 0.6 m head-onwind 12, gusts 26 km/hvisibility ~5 mwindow 18:00–21:00
today, best window 18:00–21:00
fish · Visibility 5 m · Water 27.6°C
confidence medium · verdict for the selected day
Whole week — tap a day. is driving swell right now.
Solo risk: carry a float · tell someone your plan and exit time · doubt = don't go. A model-based planner; the call is made on site.
Selected day
Windows, hours
and the day's trends.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Wednesday · today2026-07-22
05:50–19:57 · first quarter
▲ 05:00▼ 11:00▲ 17:00▼ 23:00 · 0.1 m
Hours (06→20)
18
Day's trends
Tide-0.41 m
Wave0.60 m
Wind4 km/h
Water27 °C
fish activity: moon underfoot 07:00 · high · moonrise 14:13 · moderate · moon overhead 19:20 · high
Conditions window18:00–21:00
caution — solo off the rocks is risky, check on site fish
Hs 0.60 mperiod 5.7 s head-onwind 12→26surge 0.7viz 3 m
0.60 mup to ~1.20 · 268° head-on
5.7 sswell moderate
12→26gusts 26 km/h
0.7weak surge
0.28m/s
3 mrecent swell
27.6°C5 mm + hood
▼23:00tide falling
Atmosphere30 kmlandmarks visible
highmoon overhead
- wind-wave — choppy surface
- wind 12 km/h
- dawn/dusk
confidence mediumtwilight
The water column
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
What it is
A marine instrument,
go / no-go for solo hunting.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 1152 spots across 189 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsThe seabed
Relief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
On the rock
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The call is on the rock.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Entry points
Where to get in
off the rocks.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor map
Cape Gata (Akrotiri)Limassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Cliff-drop reef, 5–25 m, grouper/dentex/amberjack. ⚠️ Akrotiri SBA — UK jurisdiction, rules differ; RoC licence not guaranteed here.
Google MapsCape Zevgari (Akrotiri S coast)Limassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Rocky cliff coast on the south Akrotiri shore, 5–20 m, dentex/sea bream. ⚠️ Akrotiri SBA — UK jurisdiction, rules differ.
Google MapsKourion / Episkopi BayLimassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Sand + reef, 3–15 m, sea bream. ⚠️ Borders the Akrotiri/Episkopi SBA line.
Google MapsLady's Mile outer reefLimassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Sand-to-rock, 3–10 m, sea bream/octopus. ⚠️ Akrotiri SBA — UK jurisdiction, rules differ.
Google MapsMoni / Pentakomo reefLimassol
borderlineswell on the quarter today
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Rock reef, 4–15 m, sea bream/octopus.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Surfacing
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Live cameras, map & reference
Cameras · live
Look at the water
right now.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
Reference
What's in season,
what the law says.
In season now
- white grouperGrouper (sfyrida/rofos): min 40–45 cm (DFMR). Vulnerable — release the big ones. Amateur limit 5 kg + 1 fish/day.
- dusky grouperGrouper (sfyrida/rofos): min 40–45 cm (DFMR). Vulnerable — release the big ones. Amateur limit 5 kg + 1 fish/day.
- white seabream
- gilthead seabream
- common dentex
- lionfishEastern-Med invasive (lionfish/pufferfish). Pufferfish ☠️ DO NOT eat (TTX toxin). Lionfish — venomous spines, handle carefully.
- pufferfishEastern-Med invasive (lionfish/pufferfish). Pufferfish ☠️ DO NOT eat (TTX toxin). Lionfish — venomous spines, handle carefully.
Law
- ✓A dedicated «SPEAR GUN» licence (Άδεια Ψαροντούφεκου) is required — €35, valid to 31 Dec of the year of issue. Apply online at licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy and pay by JCC; open to non-residents.
- •Water rules are not consolidated in one official act — per DFMR guidance in common practice: bag about 5 kg + 1 larger fish/day, a minimum grouper size, and a marker buoy. Treat these as guidance and confirm the current conditions with DFMR before diving (licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy).
- ⛔ Fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) — strictly protected, taking/disturbing prohibited (mass die-off from a pathogen).
- ⛔ Date mussel (Lithophaga lithophaga) — harvesting strictly banned (destroys the reef).
- ⛔ Seahorses (Hippocampus), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and monk seal (Monachus monachus) — protected, taking/disturbing prohibited.
Rules change and the on-water conditions are not consolidated in one act. Before heading out, get the dedicated «Ψαροντούφεκο» licence and confirm the current limits/sizes with the Department of Fisheries (DFMR) — licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy.
Safety protocol
- Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
- Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
- Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
- Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
- Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
- Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
- UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
- Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.
Spearfishing in Limassol: spots, seasons and rules
Spearfishing in Limassol starts with jurisdiction and exposure. The city is an open south coast with visibility often noted at 5-15 m, not the sheltered clarity of Ayia Napa. Moni / Pentakomo and Amathus E are the cleaner east-side references, while Cape Gata, Lady's Mile, Cape Zevgari and Kourion / Episkopi bring the Akrotiri or Episkopi SBA line into the plan. The Cyprus SPEAR GUN licence is required and costs 35 EUR online, but it should not be assumed to cover UK-base waters. Water rules such as bag, buoy, distances and grouper size should be treated as DFMR guidance to confirm before entering.
TL;DR
- Limassol is an open south-coast plan, not a sheltered cove. SW swell and the 150-260 degree bad sector decide many shore entries fast.
- Cyprus requires a dedicated SPEAR GUN licence for spearfishing. It costs 35 EUR, is obtained online at licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy and is valid to 31 Dec of the issue year.
- Unlike Greece, Cyprus has no May spearfishing ban. Do not cancel a Cyprus trip because you are thinking of the Greek May closure.
- Cape Gata, Lady's Mile and Cape Zevgari sit in or by the Akrotiri SBA. UK jurisdiction applies there, and a Republic of Cyprus licence is not guaranteed to be enough.
Best spearfishing spots in Limassol and Akrotiri peninsula
Limassol's list is split between east-coast reefs and western jurisdiction traps. Moni / Pentakomo is a rock reef. Amathus E is specifically outside the Amathounta no-take MPA line, and you need to stay east of that boundary. The western names are more complicated: Cape Gata and Cape Zevgari are in the Akrotiri SBA, Lady's Mile also carries the SBA warning, and Kourion / Episkopi Bay borders the Akrotiri / Episkopi SBA line. The entries do not include separate access or safety ratings.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Gata (Akrotiri) | Cliff-drop reef | 5-25 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Grouper, dentex and amberjack are listed. Akrotiri SBA means UK jurisdiction and different rules; a RoC licence is not guaranteed here. |
| Lady's Mile outer reef | Sand-to-rock reef | 3-10 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Sea bream and octopus are listed. The Akrotiri SBA warning is explicit, so confirm the jurisdiction before diving. |
| Moni / Pentakomo reef | Rock reef | 4-15 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Sea bream and octopus are named. This is the simpler east-side Limassol reference in the list. |
| Amathus E (outside MPA) | Rock reef | 3-12 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Sea bream is listed. Stay east of the Amathounta no-take MPA line; the Amathus coast is a no-take concern. |
| Cape Zevgari (Akrotiri S coast) | Rocky cliff coast | 5-20 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Dentex and sea bream are listed. The spot sits on the Akrotiri south coast under the SBA caveat. |
| Kourion / Episkopi Bay | Sand and reef | 3-15 m | Not separately rated | Access note not specified | Sea bream is listed. It borders the Akrotiri / Episkopi SBA line, so the boundary is part of the dive plan. |
Spearfishing conditions in Limassol today
Limassol is exposed to SW swell. The coast's bad sector is 150-260 degrees, with the worst direction around 220 degrees, so a southwest pulse can turn rock exits and cliff entries from workable to poor quickly. The visibility note is 5-15 m, and there is no local buoy station to quote for these spots. Use the forecast, live coast view if available and the real exit. On the Akrotiri side, also check whether the jurisdiction permits the dive before you worry about fish.
Spearfishing distance from fish farms, swimmers and beaches in Limassol
Cyprus water rules are not consolidated in one official act. DFMR common-practice guidance mentions about 5 kg plus one larger fish per day, a marker buoy and a minimum grouper size. Treat distances from beaches, ports or fish farms the same way: do not present a single number as settled law unless DFMR confirms it for the current conditions. Around Limassol, that matters at busy beaches and anywhere near installations or navigation routes.
Spearfishing white bream, grouper and amberjack in Limassol
The Limassol spot notes mention sea bream, octopus, grouper, dentex and amberjack. Cyprus's national table gives white seabream a 15 cm minimum, gilthead seabream 20 cm and common dentex 30 cm. Grouper is the fish to handle conservatively: DFMR guidance notes 40-45 cm for sfyrida and rofos, and those fish are vulnerable. Release large grouper. Lionfish is invasive and has venomous spines; pufferfish should not be eaten because of TTX toxin.
Do you need a licence to spearfish in Limassol?
Yes. Cyprus requires the dedicated SPEAR GUN licence. It costs 35 EUR, is obtained online at licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy, is paid through JCC and is valid to 31 Dec of the year of issue. Non-residents can apply. Unlike Greece, Cyprus has no May spearfishing ban. The licence is a Republic of Cyprus licence, so do not assume it settles Akrotiri SBA or Episkopi SBA access. For those western Limassol points, confirm the local jurisdiction and current conditions before diving.
FAQ
Where can you spearfish in Limassol?
The listed entries are Cape Gata, Lady's Mile outer reef, Moni / Pentakomo, Amathus E, Cape Zevgari and Kourion / Episkopi Bay. Check MPA and SBA boundaries first.
Can you spearfish around the Akrotiri peninsula?
Do not assume it. Several western entries sit in or beside the Akrotiri SBA, where UK jurisdiction applies and the RoC licence is not guaranteed.
Do you need a license to spearfish in Cyprus?
Yes. You need the dedicated SPEAR GUN licence, obtained online at licence.dfmr.moa.gov.cy for 35 EUR.
Is there a seasonal spearfishing ban in Cyprus?
Cyprus has no May spearfishing ban, unlike Greece. Always check current DFMR conditions for other restrictions.
How far from swimmers and fish farms must you spearfish in Cyprus?
Treat distance rules as DFMR guidance unless confirmed for the current conditions. Do not rely on one fixed number without checking DFMR.
What fish can you spearfish in Limassol?
The local notes list sea bream, octopus, grouper, dentex and amberjack. National guidance also covers seabream sizes, grouper caution, lionfish and pufferfish.
What is the daily catch limit in Cyprus?
DFMR common-practice guidance gives about 5 kg plus one larger fish per day. Confirm current conditions with DFMR before diving.
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