Qué hay en Rodas, Grecia, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Christmas holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar), Olive harvest (1 Nov – 15 Ene (normalmente))

Concurrido — Clean Monday, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Clean Monday

  23 FebCarnavalCierresMucha gente

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Concurrido — Independence Day, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  25 MarFiesta nacionalCierres

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Clean Monday (23 Feb), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Orthodox Easter, Cruise calls in the Old Town

• Apertura

  Resort season opens

  1 Abr – 10 May · normalmenteApertura de verano

  Charter flights, the east-coast hotels and the Lindos tavernas restart around Easter. Everything is open and nothing is full, which is the case for about six weeks. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteCierres

  Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts. Midnight on Holy Saturday is fireworks and church bells everywhere at once. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Cruise calls in the Old Town

  15 Abr – 31 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de crucerosMucha gente

  Ships tie up beside the medieval walls and the Street of the Knights belongs to their tours between about ten and four. Before and after that the Old Town is a different place.

Concurrido — Cruise calls in the Old Town, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Resort season opens (1 Abr – 10 May (normalmente)), Orthodox Easter (10–13 Abr), Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  10 Jun – 31 Oct · normalmente

  The east coast is the swimmable side and stays comfortable to the end of October. The west coast has the wind and the waves, which is why the kitesurfers are all at Prasonisi.

• Naturaleza

  Moths at Petaloudes

  15 Jun – 15 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de fauna

  Jersey tiger moths gather in their thousands in the shaded valley at Petaloudes for the dry months, and the site is closed to visitors outside them. Clapping to make them fly is both banned and pointless. Fuente ↗

• Riesgo

  Wildfire season

  15 Jun – 30 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de humo

  The island's interior burns in the worst summers and the 2023 fires emptied the southeast coast for a week. Risk is graded daily and access to the forested middle is restricted on the high days. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Temporada

  The meltemi

  1 Jul – 31 Ago · normalmenteTemporada de vientoRiesgo

  The summer north wind gets up most afternoons and blows for days at a stretch. It makes the heat bearable, closes the west-coast beaches to swimmers and occasionally stops the small ferries.

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Assumption on 15 August

• Festivo

  Assumption on 15 August

  12–18 AgoFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierresReserva pronto

  The biggest holiday of the Greek year outside Easter. Domestic flights and ferries fill, the village churches hold panigiria with food and lyra until dawn, and shops shut on the day itself. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Grape harvest at Embonas

  25 Ago – 30 Sep · normalmente

  The Athiri vineyards on the slopes of Attavyros are picked from late August, and the mountain villages hold their wine feasts once the presses are running. The coast is still full; the interior is not.

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 30 Sep (normalmente)), The meltemi (1 Jul – 31 Ago (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays en Grecia

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 30 Sep (normalmente)), Grape harvest at Embonas (25 Ago – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Ohi Day

• Festivo

  Ohi Day

  28 OctFiesta nacionalCierres

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Cierre

  Resorts shut for winter

  1 Nov – 31 Mar

  Outside Rhodes Town the island closes: hotels boarded, Lindos down to a couple of kitchens, charter flights gone. The town itself keeps working and is the only reason to come in winter. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Olive harvest

  1 Nov – 15 Ene · normalmente

  Nets go down under the trees across the interior once the resorts have shut, and the village presses run into January. It is the one thing happening on the island in those months.

Concurrido — Christmas holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar), Olive harvest (1 Nov – 15 Ene (normalmente))