# Getting married in Rhodes & the Dodecanese

> A walled medieval town built by the Knights, white Lindos below its acropolis, and small islands a boat ride away.

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Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese, lies close to the Turkish coast. Its old town, walled by the Knights of St John and still lived in, is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval towns and a UNESCO World Heritage site. On the sheltered east coast, white Lindos climbs to an ancient acropolis above the sea; the west coast is wilder and windier. Boats run to Symi, its pastel houses stacked around the harbour, and to Kos.

Weddings range from resort hotels with their own beach on the east coast to a ceremony in Rhodes town with portraits in the medieval lanes, or the small white chapel on the bay below Lindos, long a favourite place to marry. Some couples take a boat to Symi for a day of their own.

## When to marry in Rhodes & the Dodecanese

- **Best:** May, June, September, October
- **Good with planning:** April, July, August

May, June, September and October are warm and bright, and from June to September it hardly ever rains. July and August are hot and busy, and the meltemi, the north wind of the Aegean summer, blows hardest then, more on the west coast than on the sheltered east. October stays warm, with the first showers; most rain falls from November to March, when many seaside hotels close.

- **Spring:** Green hills, wild flowers and Easter, the great feast of the Greek year, in every village; mild days, cool evenings and a sea still cool until June.
- **Summer:** Long, hot, cloudless days and warm nights. Lindos is busiest at midday, so ceremonies and portraits there move to the evening, after the day visitors have left.
- **Autumn:** The sea still warm from summer, fewer visitors and a softer light on the old stone; the season runs on until late October.

## In numbers

- **Hottest month, average high:** August · 30.4°C — HNMS: https://www.emy.gr/en/climatic-data
- **Average high in the best months:** May 23.8°C · Jun 27.8°C · Sep 28.0°C · Oct 24.5°C — HNMS: https://www.emy.gr/en/climatic-data
- **Days with 1 mm of rain or more, best months:** May 1.9 · Jun 0.5 · Sep 0.9 · Oct 4.5 — WMO (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-old/WMO/1961-1990/RA-VI/GR/16749.TXT
- **Sunset on 21 June:** 20:28 (Rhodes town) — NOAA: https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/
- **UNESCO World Heritage:** [Medieval City of Rhodes](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/493) (1988)

Temperatures: Rodos, normals 1991–2020 · Rain: Rodos, normals 1961–1990 · Checked 15 October 2026

## Where couples marry here

The kinds of places — ask your photographer which ones they know well.

- **The medieval town:** Stone gateways, cobbled lanes and the Knights’ walls, for portraits in the low evening light; the palace and the other monuments need a permit for professional photography.
- **Lindos:** The white village under its acropolis, with a small chapel on the bay below: a ceremony by the water, then portraits in the lanes once the crowds have gone.
- **Resorts on the east coast:** Hotels along the long, sheltered beaches of the east coast, with terraces over the sea: the ceremony, the dinner and the rooms in one place.
- **Symi, Kos and the smaller islands:** Symi’s pastel harbour, Kos with its beaches and the Knights’ castle, and quiet islands for a small wedding or a day of portraits by boat.

## Towns and places in Rhodes & the Dodecanese

- [Lindos](https://lensandvows.com/greece/rhodes/lindos): A white village of captains’ houses under an ancient acropolis, and a small bay below the cliff where couples marry on a jetty in front of a white chapel. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/greece/rhodes/lindos.md)

## How the light falls

Rhodes is one of the sunniest places in Europe, and its light is bright and clean. The east coast and Lindos face the sunrise; for the sun setting into the sea, go west. In the evening the old town’s stone turns honey-gold, and at midsummer the sun sets around half past eight — earlier than in western Europe, so golden hour can come before dinner.

## Getting there

Fly into Rhodes, with direct flights from much of Europe in season and from Athens all year; Kos has its own airport. Lindos is about an hour’s drive from Rhodes town, and ferries link Rhodes with Symi, Kos and the other islands, though a strong meltemi can keep small boats in port.

## Photographers in Rhodes & the Dodecanese

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## Read before you plan

- [What a wedding photographer costs in Greece, from Athens to the islands](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-greece): Published prices for a wedding photographer in Greece run from €500 for two hours to €9,000 for a full day. The figures with sources and dates, by length of day and island by island, what moves the price — ferries, the meltemi, ΦΠΑ — and how paying works on Lens & Vows. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-greece.md)
- [Getting married in Greece as foreigners: civil, Orthodox or symbolic](https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-greece): How couples who don’t live in Greece marry there legally: documents and licence, Santorini, Mykonos and Crete, Orthodox and same-sex weddings, symbolic ceremonies and the photographer. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-greece.md)
- [The best time to get married in Greece: month by month, region by region](https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-greece): Official climate normals, the meltemi, the dates Orthodox churches hold no weddings in 2027, the public holidays, and 2027’s sunset and golden hour from Corfu to Rhodes. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-greece.md)
- [How to choose a wedding photographer: the steps, and the questions to ask](https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer): The decision in order — whole weddings, style, availability, the package, the contract and deposit, cancellation, delivery and a conversation — then a checklist of questions, with why each one matters. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer.md)
- [Wedding venues in Greece: caldera terraces, chapels, beach clubs and olive estates](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-greece): What couples marry in across Greece — cliff-top terraces and wineries, whitewashed chapels, beach clubs, olive estates, island villas, resorts and old towns — with seventeen places that say on their own sites they host weddings, which of them can hold the legal ceremony, and the rules for chapels, beaches and ancient sites. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-greece.md)
- [Where to elope in Greece: 13 places, from Santorini’s caldera to the Mani](https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-greece): Thirteen named places across the Cyclades, Athens, Crete, the Ionian, Rhodes and the Peloponnese — what each looks like, how you reach it, when the light is right, and which tickets, permits, protected-beach rules and winds to plan around. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-greece.md)