Corfu is a fairly big island and has various landscapes. Much of the island is beautiful with its trademark cypress trees, hills, and lovely coastline.

Corfu is considered a medium-to-large island, being the second-largest of Greece's Ionian Islands. It has a total land area of approximately 593 square kilometers (roughly 65 km long and 18 km wide) and a coastline spanning 217 km. With a permanent population of around 113,000 people, it feels much more substantial and "lived-in" than many of the smaller, seasonal Greek islands. Its size allows for a diverse landscape: the north is dominated by the dramatic, mountainous terrain of Mount Pantokrator, while the south is flatter and more focused on sandy beaches and agriculture. Because of its scale, you cannot easily explore the whole island in a single day; renting a car is almost essential to move between the historic UNESCO-listed Corfu Town and the remote villas of the northeast or the nightlife of Kavos in the south. For a traveler, it is "big" enough to offer a week's worth of varied activities—from hiking and old-town exploring to secluded bay hopping—but "small" enough that you can drive from the northern tip to the southern tip in about two hours.