The ancient city
Streets, houses, cisterns and a temple terrace laid out up the hillside — unusually complete, because nothing was built over it. Ticketed at the gate.
Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ Seasonal timetable — check the current edition before you travel
Rhodes Town to Ancient Kamiros by bus
The best-preserved of the island’s three ancient cities, terraced up a hillside above the west coast — and the trip where the timetable, not the site, decides your day.
- One way
- Not published
- Buses a day
- Not published
- First out
- Not published
- Last back
- Not published
Where it stops
Neither operator publishes a stop-by-stop sequence for this corridor in a form we can reproduce accurately, so we do not print one. The services call at the settlements along the coast road; the driver and the schedule at the stand are the reliable answer for a specific stop.
We cannot confirm that a bus currently goes to Ancient Kamiros at all. A fare for Αρχαία Κάμειρος exists in the operator’s fare list, but no departure for it appears on any of the current 2026 timetable sheets. What does appear is Kamiros Skala — a harbour several kilometres away, and a different place — served once a day at 13:30 with returns on Mondays only. Do not plan this trip on the assumption that the two are the same. Ask at the West Coast Central Station before you set out.
The one corridor where we can tell you less than we would like. RODA’s last published fare table priced Ancient Kamiros, but no current timetable sheet lists it as a destination — the nearby service that does run is to Kamiros Skala, the harbour, which is not the same place. Whether the archaeological site is served by bus at all in 2026 is unverified. Ask at the West Coast Central Station before you commit a day to it.
Departures
Departure times change. Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ publishes the current timetable.
Check both directions and save your return before you set off.
Checked against Municipality of Rhodes — Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ publications ↗ on 18 August 2026. Timetables change with the season — confirm before you travel.
Where the stop is
Everything heading up the west side leaves from here — the airport, Ialysos, Kremasti, Paradisi, Butterfly Valley and the mountain villages beyond them. The operator’s own stop database puts it about twenty metres from the KTEL stand, so this is a question of standing at the right bay in one block rather than finding another part of town.
Do this before you go
On a route with this few departures the return time is not a detail, it is the plan. Save it offline — there is no ticket office at the site and no signal to look it up on the way back down.
Get the Rhodes Bus app ExperiencesAt Kamiros
The site is the trip. There is very little else at the junction, which is part of why it stays quiet.
The west coast road
Open, windy and much emptier than the east. The bus ride along it is a large part of what you come for.
Onwards to Monolithos
The same road carries on south towards the castle at Monolithos. Feasible in a day only if the departures line up, which they often do not.
About this route
How many buses a day go to Ancient Kamiros?
We cannot tell you, and that is the honest answer. The archaeological site has a published fare but no entry on any current timetable sheet. The nearby Kamiros Skala service runs once a day at 13:30, and its return only operates on Mondays. Treat this corridor as unresolved until you have confirmed it at the stand.
Which operator and which stand?
The west side of Rhodes is Δ.Ε.Σ. ΡΟΔΑ territory, not KTEL — this is the single most common mistake made about this corridor. Departures are from the West Coast Central Station, which sits about twenty metres from the KTEL stand in the same Mandraki block. The walk between them is trivial; queueing at the wrong one is not.
Is Kamiros Skala the same as Ancient Kamiros?
No, and conflating them is how people end up at a harbour instead of a ruin. Kamiros Skala is a small port, and it is the one with a published departure. The archaeological site is inland of it. If someone tells you the 13:30 goes to Kamiros, establish which of the two they mean.