Rhodes Airport (RHO) | Diagoras International Airport, Rhodes

Facts & figures

Rhodes Airport in figures

Official name: Rhodes International Airport “Diagoras”
IATA / ICAO: RHO / LGRP
Operator: Fraport Greece, since 11 April 2017 (40-year concession)
Opened: 1977, replacing the airfield at Maritsa
Passengers: 7,093,264 (2025) · 6,921,748 (2024), provisional operator figures
Flights: 48,482 aircraft movements in 2025
Largest market: United Kingdom, 1,654,507 passengers in 2025
Distance to town: about 14 km to Rhodes Town
Location: Paradisi, on the west coast of Rhodes
Runway: 06/24, 3,305 m × 60 m, asphalt · elevation 6 m

Getting there

Getting from Rhodes Airport into town and beyond

About 14 km separate Rhodes Airport from Rhodes Town, and three options cover that stretch: the municipal RODA bus, a taxi from the rank or a pre-booked transfer. Resorts on the east coast such as Faliraki, Kolymbia, Lindos and Pefkos have no regular direct bus from Rhodes Airport in the winter timetable; passengers change in Rhodes Town to a KTEL coach. KTEL times and fares below are from the timetable valid from 6 November 2026 to 15 April 2027; prices marked “about” are guide values.

Transport	Destination	Duration	Price	Frequency
RODA municipal bus	Rhodes Town via Kremasti, Ialyssos, Ixia	about 40-50 min	about €2.50-3.50	varies by season; information on +30 22410 26300
Taxi from the rank	Rhodes Town	about 20 min	about €27-35	rank in front of Arrivals (T1)
Taxi from the rank	Faliraki	about 25 min	about €31-40	rank in front of Arrivals (T1)
KTEL coach from Rhodes Town	Faliraki · Kolymbia	after changing in town	€2.50 · €2.80	about 12 departures Mon-Fri, 06:15-21:30 (winter)
KTEL coach from Rhodes Town	Lindos · Pefkos · Kiotari	after changing in town	€6.00 · €6.60 · €7.50	Lindos 6 a day Mon-Sat, Pefkos and Kiotari 3 a day (winter)
Hire car	the whole island	handover at the terminal	depends on season	6 brands with desks in arrivals

With your own car you do not depend on timetables: car hire at Rhodes Airport. For groups and late arrivals a fixed transfer price is worth it.

Taxi rank in front of the arrivals building of Rhodes Airport

Onward from the airport

Getting around from Rhodes Airport

Four decisions wait in the first half hour after landing at Rhodes Airport: whether to collect a hire car, join the taxi queue or meet a pre-booked driver, take the municipal bus towards Rhodes Town, or, for those collecting friends, where to park. Six car hire brands have desks in the arrivals area of Rhodes Airport and the taxi rank is in front of Arrivals. The pages below give the detail for each option.

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Car hire

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Taxi & transfers

Official taxis and pre-booked private transfers at a fixed price to your hotel.

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Parking

Official car parks, charges and the rules for dropping off and collecting passengers.

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Public transport

Public transport from the airport: lines, fares and how to reach the city centre.

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Live

Live flights at Rhodes Airport

August 2026 was the busiest month recorded at Rhodes Airport so far, with 8,655 flights and 1,377,837 passengers, while January brought only 638 flights. The live board shows today's arrivals and departures at Rhodes Airport with flight number, airline, origin or destination and status, which helps most when a pick-up from Lindos or Faliraki has to be timed.

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Location

Location, access and distances

Rhodes Airport stands on the west coast beside Paradisi, about 14 km from Rhodes Town along the coast road through Kremasti, Ialyssos and Ixia. The local taxi cooperative gives about 20 minutes for the drive to Rhodes Town, 10 minutes to Ialyssos and 15 minutes to Ixia in normal traffic. On summer evenings the coast road through the resorts is slower.

For the east coast, drivers leave Rhodes Airport towards Rhodes Town and cross the island to the road from Rhodes Town to Lindos, which passes Faliraki, Afandou, Kolymbia and Archangelos before Lindos. The taxi cooperative gives about 21 km and 25 minutes to Faliraki, 30 km and 35 minutes to Kolymbia and 55 km and 55 minutes to Lindos. Southwards along the west coast the road leads from Rhodes Airport to Ancient Kamiros and on to Monolithos.

The harbours of Rhodes Town, where ferries and catamarans leave for Symi, for other Dodecanese islands and for Marmaris in Turkey, are about 15 km and 20 minutes from Rhodes Airport. No bus runs from Rhodes Airport directly to the quays: bus passengers ride to the terminus in Rhodes Town and continue on foot or by a short taxi ride. The address of Rhodes Airport for navigation devices is Paradisi, 851 06 Rhodes, and the operator gives the coordinates 36.402156, 28.090647.

Distances from Rhodes Airport

Ialyssos – about 8 km · about 10 min
Ixia – about 9 km · about 15 min
Rhodes Town – about 14 km · about 20 min
Port of Rhodes – about 15 km · about 20 min
Faliraki – about 21 km · about 25 min
Kolymbia – about 30 km · about 35 min
Lindos – about 55 km · about 55 min
Pefkos – about 60 km · about 1 h
Kiotari – about 60 km · about 1 h 5 min

Address: Rhodes Airport, Paradisi, 851 06 Rhodes, Greece · GPS 36.402156, 28.090647

Apron of Rhodes Airport with parked holiday jets

Terminals

Terminals and services at Rhodes Airport

Two connected terminal buildings handle all flights at Rhodes Airport; the operator describes them as the old and the new terminal. The taxi rank stands in front of Arrivals at Terminal 1 and the bus stop lies between the two buildings. After security, departing passengers are divided into a Schengen area and a non-Schengen area, and flights to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Israel leave from the non-Schengen gates after passport control.

Two pay-per-use lounges are found on level 2 of the Schengen departure area of Rhodes Airport. The Goldair Handling Lounge operated from 1 April to 7 November in 2026, daily from 07:00 to 24:00, and according to the operator also serves passengers bound for non-Schengen destinations. “The Lounge” Rhodes opens daily from 07:00 to 24:00, has a children's playroom and a quiet room, and accepts Priority Pass, Lounge Pass, LoungeKey and DragonPass as well as payment by Visa or Mastercard.

Shops and food outlets at Rhodes Airport include Hellenic Duty Free Shops, Hudson, Burger King, Goody's, Everest and several cafés; a few of them are in the public area before security, most are airside. Free charging stations with USB ports, sockets and wireless pads stand in the check-in hall, at the departure gates and beside arrivals belt 3. Baggage trolleys are free and are released with a coin that is returned when the trolley is brought back.

Passengers with reduced mobility should request assistance through the airline or tour operator at least 48 hours before departure, as the operator of Rhodes Airport asks. Items lost in the terminal are handed to the airport police on +30 22410 82249; bags that did not arrive and items left on board are handled by the airline. Since 12 October 2025 the EU Entry/Exit System has been registering non-EU travellers at the border, which includes British passport holders arriving at Rhodes Airport.

The municipal bus company RODA serves the stop between the two terminal buildings of Rhodes Airport. Several RODA lines pass the airport on their way between Rhodes Town and the villages of the west coast, among them Paradisi, Theologos, Soroni and Kalavarda, so the destination on the front of the bus matters: for the centre, board a bus marked for Rhodes. In Rhodes Town the RODA buses for the west coast and the KTEL coaches for Faliraki, Lindos and the south leave from stops close to each other in the New Town, near the New Market and Mandraki harbour, according to travel guides. Tickets for the airport bus are bought from the driver in cash.

Services in the terminals

Free Wi-Fi on the network “Fraport-Free”
Two lounges on level 2: Goldair Handling Lounge and “The Lounge” Rhodes
Hellenic Duty Free Shops and Hudson news and travel shop
Cafés and fast food, including Burger King, Goody's and Everest
ATMs before and after security, currency exchange
Free charging stations in check-in, at the gates and in arrivals
Free baggage trolleys with a coin deposit
First aid point and information counters
Car hire desks of six brands in the arrivals area
Official short-term and long-term car parks, open 24 hours

Departure hall of Rhodes Airport with check-in desks

History & airlines

The history of Rhodes Airport

Rhodes Airport opened in 1977 beside the village of Paradisi and replaced the older airfield at Maritsa, about 3 km inland, where civil flying on Rhodes had started after the Second World War. Maritsa has been used by the military since then. The airport carries the name of Diagoras of Rhodes, a boxer who won at the ancient Olympic Games in the fifth century BC.

Package holidays from the United Kingdom, Germany and Scandinavia turned Rhodes Airport into one of the busiest gateways of the Greek islands. A second terminal building was added in the 2000s to cope with the charter traffic; sources give 2005 for its completion and 2007 for its full entry into service. Both buildings are still in use, which is why signs and the operator's own pages speak of an old and a new terminal.

Fraport Greece took over Rhodes Airport on 11 April 2017 together with 13 other Greek regional airports. According to the operator, the upgrade that followed refurbished the terminal, rebuilt the aircraft parking area, added a fire station and a new baggage handling system, and raised the number of check-in counters from 40 to 45, departure gates from 16 to 18 and security lanes from 7 to 12. Traffic has grown every year since the pandemic: 6,142,998 passengers in 2023, 6,921,748 in 2024 and 7,093,264 in 2025, with a further 3.6 % increase in the first ten months of 2026.

The mix of passengers explains the rhythm of Rhodes Airport. Of the 7,093,264 passengers in 2025, 6,139,546 travelled on international flights and 953,718 on domestic ones. The United Kingdom led with 1,654,507 passengers, followed by Germany with 1,156,337, then Poland, Israel, Sweden, Italy and France. International flights all but stop between December and February, when the domestic services to Athens and other Greek airports keep Rhodes Airport open.

Airlines at Rhodes Airport

Aegean Airlines
Olympic Air
Sky Express
British Airways
easyJet
Jet2.com
Ryanair
TUI Airways
Condor
Lufthansa
Edelweiss Air
Swiss
Transavia
Air France
Brussels Airlines
Finnair
SAS Scandinavian Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines
Wizz Air
Volotea
ITA Airways
Luxair
airBaltic
El Al

Terminal building of Rhodes Airport by day

Parking at Rhodes Airport

Two official car parks serve Rhodes Airport, both run by the local company FastCarPark: a short-term car park 30 metres from the terminals and a long-term car park a short shuttle ride away.

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Taxi & transfers

About €27 to €35 is what a taxi from Rhodes Airport to Rhodes Town costs, about €31 to €40 to Faliraki and about €75 to €95 to Lindos. The taxi rank is in front of Arrivals at Terminal 1 of Rhodes Airport.

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Questions & answers

Frequently asked questions about Rhodes Airport

How far is Rhodes Airport from Rhodes Town?

About 14 km separate Rhodes Airport from Rhodes Town, a drive of about 20 minutes. A taxi costs about €27 to €35; the municipal bus is the cheapest way and costs about €2.50 to €3.50.

Who operates Rhodes Airport?

Fraport Greece has operated Rhodes Airport since 11 April 2017 under a 40-year concession covering 14 Greek regional airports. The official website is rho-airport.gr.

How busy is Rhodes Airport?

7,093,264 passengers and 48,482 flights were counted at Rhodes Airport in 2025. Traffic is highly seasonal: August 2026 brought 1,377,837 passengers, January 2026 only 62,552.

Which UK airlines fly to Rhodes Airport?

British Airways, easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair and TUI Airways are on the airline list of Rhodes Airport. About 1.65 million passengers travelled between the United Kingdom and Rhodes Airport in 2025, more than from any other country.

Is there a bus from Rhodes Airport to Lindos?

No direct bus runs from Rhodes Airport to Lindos. Passengers take the RODA bus to Rhodes Town and change to the KTEL coach to Lindos, which costs €6.00 one way; with luggage a taxi or pre-booked transfer is far quicker.

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