Getting married in Lindos

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   The jetty at St Paul’s Bay

   By tradition, St Paul landed in this small, almost enclosed cove south of the acropolis. Since 2020 the Municipality of Rhodes has listed the jetty in front of the white chapel as a place for civil weddings, and later that year it added the chapel’s forecourt. The chapel itself belongs to the Church, which keeps its own rules — in 2017 the Metropolitan stopped civil ceremonies in its courtyard — so ask the registrar which spot you will have. The registry calls it perhaps the most picturesque setting of all; expect onlookers.

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   The Lindos town hall

   The municipal building of the Lindos unit is the everyday place for civil weddings, and the registrar for Lindos works from it. The mayor has delegated the ceremony to the president of the Lindos community and a community councillor, who marry couples with the registrar, every day except Sunday: the ceremony may start from 11:00 and must end before 21:00.

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   Vlycha beach

   The third place the municipality approved for Lindos, a beach on Vlycha Bay north of the village, for couples who want the sand under their feet. In April 2026 the Lindos community council proposed adding more beaches, the small central beach of Lindos among them; until the municipal council approves them, these three are the list.

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   The Panagia and an Orthodox wedding

   The church of the Dormition of the Virgin, in the middle of the village, was built in the 13th century on older remains; its narthex and bell tower were added in 1489, under the arms of the Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson, and its walls were painted in 1779 by Gregorios of Symi. Rhodes’s Metropolis belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and sets its own rules: both of you baptised in the name of the Trinity, Orthodox sponsors (koumbaroi), translated and apostilled documents, and for visitors from outside the EU, a wedding within 90 days of arriving.

May, June, September and early October are the months to aim for. At Rhodes airport, in the WMO normals Greece submitted for 1961–1990, average highs are 24.3 °C in May, 28.4 °C in June, 30.5 °C in July and August, 28.3 °C in September and 24.4 °C in October, and July and August are practically rainless; October brings the first real rain (64 mm on about four days). Lindos itself runs hotter: the National Observatory of Athens’ station in the village (2014–2025, not a 30-year normal, as Wikipedia reproduces it) averages 32.0 °C in June and 35.4 °C in July. The east coast is the calmer side of the island; the west takes the wind. Crowds follow the flights: Rhodes airport handled 7.09 million passengers in 2025, its international traffic running from April to October and peaking in August, at 1.32 million.