Taxi
Available at the terminal. The most flexible option and the one that needs no planning, but the fare to the far side of the island is a different order of money from the bus.
Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ West-side sheet dated 17 August 2026 — check the current edition before you fly
The bus from Rhodes airport
Diagoras airport sits on the west-coast road between Rhodes Town and the villages beyond it, and the bus into town runs along that road from a roadside stop outside the terminal. It is run by the municipal network, not by KTEL — which is the first thing most visitors have wrong about it.
- First into town
- 06:50
- Last into town
- 00:45
- Buses into town
- 39
- Back out to the airport
- 00:00
Where the stop is
Neither operator names a stand or a bay at Diagoras in anything it publishes. The municipal stop database places three airport stops by coordinate and stops there — no description, no photograph, no indication of which one a given service uses.
We are not going to guess at it. What that absence means in practice is worth planning around, though: find out when the bus goes before you land rather than after, because there is no published stand to walk to and ask at.
Establish the last departure before you fly. This is the single number that decides whether the bus is your plan or your backup. The municipal sheets carry a revision date rather than a validity window, and they are reissued without notice, so a time you found months ago is not necessarily the time that will be running when you land.
Do this before you go
Save the airport departures offline before you get on the plane. You will be looking them up in an arrivals hall on a foreign SIM with a queue behind you, which is the worst possible moment to discover a website is a PDF.
Get the Rhodes Bus appAirport timetable (west side) ↗ KTEL line 25 to Faliraki ↗ Municipal transport page ↗
If you land after the last bus
Plenty of flights into Rhodes arrive in the evening, and the bus network does not run to meet them. If yours is one of them, the decision is already made for you and the useful thing is to have made it in advance rather than at the kerb.
Booked transfer
Fixed price agreed before you travel, and someone waiting regardless of how late the flight runs. Worth it mainly when you are going somewhere the bus would have needed a connection to reach.
Stay in town, travel tomorrow
Underrated. A night in Rhodes Town and a morning bus is often cheaper than a late transfer to the far coast, and it puts you on the corridor rather than at the end of it.
Private transfer option
Need a direct ride from the airport?
For arrivals at Rhodes International Airport “Diagoras”, you can check a pre-booked private transfer to your onward destination.
Check Rhodes airport transfer options Affiliate link — we may earn a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you.Getting onward from town
All routes →The airport is on the west coast and most of the resorts are on the east, so nearly every onward journey goes through Rhodes Town and changes there. Treat the airport bus as the first of two legs, and check that the second one is still running before you commit to the first.
Arriving at Rhodes airport
Which operator runs the bus from Rhodes airport?
For Rhodes Town, Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ — the municipal network — and not KTEL. This surprises people, because KTEL is the operator most visitors have heard of, but KTEL’s own published stop map contains no airport stop at all. The exception is Faliraki: KTEL runs a separate seasonal line 25 direct between the airport and Faliraki, which saves you a change in town.
How often does the airport bus run?
The current municipal sheet lists 45 departures from Rhodes Town and 39 back from the airport on a weekday — not the same number in both directions, which is worth knowing if you are planning a return. Buses leave the airport for town from 06:50 until 00:45. That is a genuinely frequent service by the standards of this island, and it is why the airport bus is a reasonable default rather than a gamble.
Where exactly is the bus stop at the terminal?
Not published, and we will not invent it. The municipal stop database records three airport stops by coordinate, and neither operator publishes which one a service uses, what it looks like, or how to find it from arrivals. Ask inside the terminal — and know the departure time before you go looking, because the stop itself will not tell you.
My flight lands after the last bus. What now?
The last bus out of the airport is 00:45 on the current sheet, so this catches fewer people than it used to. If you land after it, taxis wait at the terminal and a pre-booked transfer is the alternative; both cost substantially more. The bigger problem is usually not the airport leg but the onward one: if you are heading for the east coast or the far south, the connection you would have needed from town stopped running long before.
Can I take the bus straight to Lindos or Faliraki from the airport?
To Faliraki, yes — KTEL’s line 25 runs direct between the airport and Faliraki in season, at €3.50 one way, with no change in Rhodes Town. It is valid Until 30 September 2026. To Lindos, no: you travel into town on the municipal bus and change onto a KTEL east-coast coach. That is two legs on two different operators, and both have to still be running.
Is the bus worth it with luggage?
On the intercity coaches large bags go in the hold, which is fine. The consideration is the other end: if your accommodation is not on the main road, you are walking the last stretch with the case, and that is the part people underestimate.
Checked against Municipality of Rhodes — Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ west side, Mon–Fri (17/8/2026) ↗ and KTEL Rodou — line 25, Airport ⇄ Faliraki ↗ on 18 August 2026. Timetables change with the season — confirm before you travel.