November
Wk 44–46
The quietest stretch among this region's best weather weeks: crowd level around 8 out of 100, weather comfort near 80.
- Crowd level
- 2–19
- Comfort
- 76–84
Greece · Rhodos
Rhodes: a knights' city in the north, a bare south
From 1306 the Knights Hospitaller secured the island as territory of their own, and their old town is a World Heritage Site. Beyond it lie three ancient cities, vineyards and a valley where butterflies gather in summer.
Busiest week
JulyCrowd level 100
Wk 30 · 1,933,409 overnight stays
Quietest weeks
JanuaryCrowd level 0
Wk 1–3 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions
Sweet spot
NovemberCrowd level 2–19
Wk 44–46 · quietest while the weather still holds
Warmest month
30 °CComfort 68
July · around 1 mm of rain in the month
The overnight-stay figures come from a statistical area that this destination shares with Kos and Santorin. They cover the whole area, not Rhodos on its own.
Rhodos in brief
Rhodes is the principal island of the Dodecanese and, at 1,401.5 square kilometres, close to five times the size of Kos. The old town of Rhodes Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Grand Master's Palace of the Knights stands in it; from 1306 they secured the island as a territory of their own. With them come three ancient cities, a wine district around the Attavyros and a wooded north.
When is Rhodos busy, when is it quiet?
Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.
Weather profile
Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.
JanuaryØ 0
FebruaryØ 0
MarchØ 2
AprilØ 17
MayØ 51
JuneØ 78
JulyØ 93
AugustØ 96
SeptemberØ 72
OctoberØ 37
NovemberØ 5
DecemberØ 1
Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100
Why this week?
November · Wk 44
Crowd level19/100 · fairly quiet
quietbusy
Weather comfort56/100 · Sun & warmth
-47 % versus the region's annual average.
- Contributing months
- October (47 %) · November (53 %)
- Overnight stays/week
- 386,256
- School-holiday pressure (source markets)
- 23 % of source markets on school holidays · +6 % crowding from holidays
- Main source markets
- Greece (21 %) · United Kingdom (20 %) · Germany (19 %) · 82% of guests modelled
- Region range
- 17,855–1,933,409 (avg 730,371)
- Base years
- 2022, 2023, 2024 (excluding 2020, 2021)
v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.
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The travel year in Rhodos, month by month
The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.
| Month | Crowd level0–100, season-relative | Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild” | Avg temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 44 | 11 °C |
| February | 0 | 52 | 12 °C |
| March | 2 | 66 | 14 °C |
| April | 17 | 86 | 18 °C |
| May | 51 | 93 | 22 °C |
| June | 78 | 82 | 27 °C |
| July | 93 | 68 | 30 °C |
| August | 96 | 69 | 30 °C |
| September | 72 | 83 | 27 °C |
| October | 37 | 90 | 22 °C |
| November | 5 | 75 | 18 °C |
| December | 1 | 51 | 13 °C |
The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Rhodos itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.
Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.
Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026
The windows worth catching
Three windows from the model: first whether the weather suits the region, then how busy it gets.
March–April
Wk 13–15
A second option, also with usable weather: crowd level around 12, weather comfort near 80.
- Crowd level
- 5–17
- Comfort
- 75–85
July–August
Wk 30–32
The region's peak: crowd level around 99 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.
- Crowd level
- 98–100
- Comfort
- 66–67
Rhodos compared with Europe
How full the accommodation is here, measured against Europe – on the only measure on which two travel regions can be compared.
- Bed occupancy in Rhodos
- 34.3
- European median
- 23.1
per cent of bed places, annual mean
per cent of bed places, annual mean
Furthest from the median: February, at <0.1× the value. Closest to the median: April, at 0.8× the value.
Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This occupancy compares travel regions with one another. The crowding in the table above compares Rhodos with itself. The two measures are never combined.
Climate through the year
Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.
- Avg temperature
- Day/night range
- Precipitation
| Month | Avg temperature (°C) | Day avg (°C) | Night avg (°C) | Precipitation (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 10 | 11 | 9 | 150 |
| Feb | 11 | 12 | 10 | 68 |
| Mar | 13 | 14 | 12 | 67 |
| Apr | 16 | 18 | 15 | 25 |
| May | 21 | 22 | 19 | 14 |
| Jun | 25 | 27 | 24 | 4 |
| Jul | 29 | 30 | 27 | 1 |
| Aug | 28 | 30 | 27 | 1 |
| Sep | 25 | 27 | 24 | 5 |
| Oct | 21 | 22 | 20 | 36 |
| Nov | 17 | 18 | 16 | 100 |
| Dec | 12 | 13 | 11 | 168 |
The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
How sunny?
How much sun a typical day delivers, month by month, expressed as hours of full midday sun.
Very sunny
≈ 5.3 h of full midday sun per day, annual average
Jun
Sunniest month
| Month | ≈ h of full midday sun per day |
|---|---|
| Jan | 2.7 |
| Feb | 3.7 |
| Mar | 5.1 |
| Apr | 6.5 |
| May | 7.3 |
| Jun | 8.0 |
| Jul | 7.9 |
| Aug | 7.1 |
| Sep | 5.9 |
| Oct | 4.4 |
| Nov | 3.0 |
| Dec | 2.4 |
Basis: mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day; 1 kWh/m² is roughly one hour of full midday sun (1,000 W/m²). Not the same as measured sunshine duration. Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
Directly reachable from
Destination airports of Rhodos and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.
Destination airports
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“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.
Rhodos in detail
Location and shape
Rhodes is the principal island of the Dodecanese and, at 1,401.5 square kilometres, the fourth largest in Greece by area and the third by population. It runs 78 kilometres long and 38 wide, rising to 1,215 metres at the Attavyros.
The city of the knights
The old town of Rhodes Town, with its Grand Master's Palace and its walls, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Knights Hospitaller secured a territory on the island by treaty in 1306, had it granted by the Pope in 1307, and took the island in a planned campaign. From antiquity came the Colossus, some 34 metres tall, paid for by selling off abandoned siege engines and brought down by an earthquake in 227 BC.
Ancient cities and castles
Three ancient cities mark the island: Lindos, said to have been fortified as early as the Trojan War; Kameiros on the west coast, where the dig lays out a Hellenistic town plan in full view; and the acropolis of ancient Ialysos on the Filerimos hill, where a temple to Athena Polias, a Doric fountain building and an early Christian basilica with floor mosaics lie exposed beneath a later monastery. Hospitaller castles are scattered across the island: Kritinia, roughly 130 metres above its village and mixing Byzantine with Venetian work, and Monolithos on a free-standing rock that already carried a watchtower in antiquity.
Two landscapes
The island divides in two: wooded in the north, bare in the south, in places without olive groves at all. That goes back to felling for shipbuilding at Lindos in antiquity and to forest fires in the nineties. In the north-west lies the Valley of the Butterflies, a wooded valley where one species gathers along the stream through the summer. At the southern tip, Prasonisi juts out, joined to the island only by a beach and a destination for wind- and kitesurfing.
Wine, spas, beaches
A wine district lies around the Attavyros, and tastings are offered at Embona. On the east coast lies the thermal complex of Kallithea, ancient in origin, Art Deco in its buildings, reopened after restoration in 2007. Afandou has the island's longest beach at around five kilometres; at Faliraki little of the old fishing village's fabric remains. The church of Panagia Tsambika is reached by some 300 steps.
How it differs from Kos
Against Kos, the first difference is size: Rhodes is nearly five times as large and close to four times as wide. Both carry Hospitaller castles, thermal springs and ancient sites. Rhodes, though, the order took for itself from 1306, and the Grand Master's Palace and the walls stand there, while Kos it bought in 1309; and where Rhodes carries three ancient cities, Kos has the Asklepieion. Vines grow on both islands; on Rhodes the wine district lies around the Attavyros, with Embona as its tasting village. The landscape is ordered differently too: a wooded north and a bare south here, a plain in front of an eastern ridge there.
Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Rhodos
Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.
When is the best time to visit Rhodos?
- The best time to visit Rhodos is November (Wk 44–46): it is the quietest stretch among the region's best weather weeks – crowd level around 8 out of 100, weather comfort about 80 out of 100.
When is Rhodos quietest?
- January (Wk 1–3) is the quietest time in Rhodos. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Rhodos busiest?
- Rhodos is busiest in July (Wk 30) with around 1,933,409 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Rhodos and when is it warmest?
- It is warmest in Rhodos in July with an average of 30 °C.
How do you get to Rhodos?
- Rhodos is reachable via 12 destination airports with direct flights, including Rhodes Airport (RHO), Kos Airport (KGS) and Santorini International Airport (JTR).
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- Cover video
- Video by David Pickup | Advertising & Marketing 🇬🇧 on Pexels
- Crowding figures
- Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026. v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.
- Climate data
- Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.
- Reachability
Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data as of: September 2026
- Region text
- Text by HolidayHub, written from Wikivoyage „Rhodos“ (1792879) · Wikipedia „Rhodos“ (268734896) · Wikidata Q43048. Wikivoyage and Wikipedia are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikidata CC0.
- Data basis
- All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.