På gång i Rhodes (Rodos), Greece under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Resorts shut for winter (1 nov – 31 mar), Olive harvest (1 nov – 15 jan (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Clean Monday, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Clean Monday

  23 febKarnevalStängningarTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Resorts shut for winter (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — Independence Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Independence Day

  25 marNationell helgdagStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Clean Monday (23 feb), Resorts shut for winter (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mest folk — Orthodox Easter, Cruise calls in the Old Town

• Öppning

  Resort season opens

  1 apr – 10 maj · vanligtvisSommarsäsongen öppnar

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Cruise calls in the Old Town

  15 apr – 31 okt · vanligtvisKryssningssäsongTrångt

  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.

Mycket folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Resort season opens (1 apr – 10 maj (vanligtvis)), Orthodox Easter (10–13 apr), Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

• Säsong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  10 jun – 31 okt · vanligtvis

  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.

• Natur

  Moths at Petaloudes

  15 jun – 15 sep · vanligtvisDjurlivssäsong

  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. Källa ↗

• Risk

  Wildfire season

  15 jun – 30 sep · vanligtvisRöksäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

• Säsong

  The meltemi

  1 jul – 31 aug · vanligtvisVindsäsongRisk

  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.

Pågår fortfarande: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), Wildfire season (15 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Assumption on 15 August

• Helg

  Assumption on 15 August

  12–18 augNationell helgdagTrångtStängningarBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Grape harvest at Embonas

  25 aug – 30 sep · vanligtvis

  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.

Pågår fortfarande: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), Wildfire season (15 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), The meltemi (1 jul – 31 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), Wildfire season (15 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Grape harvest at Embonas (25 aug – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Ohi Day

• Helg

  Ohi Day

  28 oktNationell helgdagStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15 apr – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Stängt

  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. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Olive harvest

  1 nov – 15 jan · vanligtvis

  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.

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Resorts shut for winter (1 nov – 31 mar), Olive harvest (1 nov – 15 jan (vanligtvis))