The east and south of the island: Faliraki, Archangelos, Lindos, Pefkos and the far south, plus a seasonal direct Airport–Faliraki line. It does not run the airport bus into Rhodes Town.
Official site ↗Rhodes · Public transport
Getting around Rhodes by bus
Two operators, two sets of timetables and two different places to stand. This guide covers which is which, where they go, and the things worth knowing before you are stood at the wrong stop with a bag.
Where are you going?
All routes →48
services published
2
separate operators
0
unified timetables
Where everyone goes
All 48 services →
Lindos
€6.00 · last back 21:45
The acropolis, the white village and St Paul’s Bay — the island’s one unmissable day out.
Faliraki
€2.50 · last back 22:25
The long sand beach closest to town, and the coves just south of it.
Tsambika
€3.30 · last back 22:10
Deep sand under a monastery rock. Get the walk right and it is the best beach day on Rhodes.
Kallithea Springs
Times and fare on the route page
A 1920s spa on a rocky cove, close enough for half a day.
Ancient Kamiros
Times and fare on the route page
A whole Hellenistic town on a hillside, and almost nobody there.
Butterfly Valley
last back 15:45
A cool, shaded ravine — worth timing for the summer months.
Rhodes Bus
The timetable you need is the one for the way back
Nobody gets stranded on the way out. They get stranded standing at a junction on the coast road in the late afternoon, at a stop with no shelter and no board on it, trying to load a schedule on a bar of signal. An app that is already on the phone opens without a network. That is the whole of the case for this one.
Two operators, not one network
Fares & tickets →This is the thing to understand before anything else. Rhodes has no single bus authority and no combined timetable. Which operator runs your corridor decides where you stand, what you pay and where you look the times up.
Rhodes Town, the whole west side of the island including the airport and Butterfly Valley, and one east-coast line to Kallithea and Faliraki. Much larger than the "city buses" it is usually mistaken for.
Official site ↗Just arrived?
The questions everyone asks
More questions →Is there one official Rhodes bus timetable?
No. KTEL Rodou publishes its own seasonal timetable, and Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ material is published through the Municipality of Rhodes. They use different formats and different service-day conventions, and neither is a timetable for the whole island.
Do I buy a ticket in advance or on the bus?
It depends which service you are taking, and the two operators do not work the same way. KTEL Rodou links its own online ticketing from its site; the city network does not. Check the operator your service belongs to rather than assuming one answer covers both.
Do the buses run all year?
Not all of them, and not at the same frequency. KTEL Rodou reissue their timetables as dated editions rather than as a fixed summer/winter pair, and Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ sheets carry a revision date rather than a validity window — so the only safe reading is the edition currently published, not one you found months ago. Several corridors thin out sharply or stop entirely outside the season.
Can I get around Rhodes without hiring a car?
For the coast and the main sites, yes — the corridors out of Rhodes Town cover most of what visitors come for. What the bus does not do well is the interior and the far south, where a handful of departures a day means one missed connection ends the trip rather than delaying it.
Checked against KTEL Rodou — official schedule ↗ and Municipality of Rhodes — Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ publications ↗ on 18 August 2026. Timetables change with the season — confirm before you travel.