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Rhodes beaches: 2025 bathing-water quality

Rhodes has 52 official bathing waters in the EEA dataset for the 2025 season. 75% were classified Excellent — 22.1 points below the 97.1% across all of Greece — and 0 were Poor. 37 sites have been Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025. By area, the Excellent share is highest around Kiotari / Gennadi (100% of 7) and lowest around Rhodes town (44.4% of 9).

Fort of Saint Nicholas at the entrance of the old harbour of Rhodes
Photo: Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
52

official bathing waters

75%

Excellent in 2025

0

Poor in 2025

Not live: these are annual official classifications. Check the competent authority for today’s notices before swimming.
Before you swim on Rhodes

Ministry of Environment and Energy with the regional water directorates

Bathing season in Greece: 1 June – 31 October. Almost all Greek bathing waters are coastal; the portal is an interactive map of site profiles.

Annual EEA classes do not show temporary bans, short-term pollution or algae alerts; those are published by the competent authority. National information last checked 2026-11-01.

Season status: Today (6 November 2026) is outside the official bathing season (1 June – 31 October). Official monitoring is tied to the season (a first sample may be taken shortly before it opens), so there are no current official water-quality results now. The next season starts on 1 June 2027.

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About Rhodes

Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in the south-eastern Aegean. Its east coast faces the Turkish coast, while the west coast towards Kamiros is more exposed to the prevailing summer winds.

How this page is defined: official EEA bathing waters reported by Greece whose coordinates fall inside a boundary drawn around Rhodes. Coordinates are reported by the national authority.

Map of official bathing waters

Excellent 39Good 13Poor 0
MEGALOS GIALOS: Excellent (2025)KIOTARI: Excellent (2025)PEFKOI: Excellent (2025)ENYDREIOU 1: Excellent (2025)FALIRAKI 1: Excellent (2025)GALOUNI - KOKKINOGIA 1: Excellent (2025)RENI KALATHOU - THOLARI: Excellent (2025)MANTOMATA: Excellent (2025)MIKROS GIALOS: Excellent (2025)TRAOUNOU: Excellent (2025)GENNADI: Excellent (2025)LADIKO: Excellent (2025)LARDOS: Excellent (2025)GLYSTRA: Excellent (2025)AFANTOU - KOLIMPIA: Excellent (2025)AFANTOU: Excellent (2025)VLICHA: Excellent (2025)KREMASTI - TRIANTA 2: Excellent (2025)ENYDREIOU 2: Excellent (2025)PLIMMYRI: Excellent (2025)LARDOS 3: Excellent (2025)AGIA AGATHI: Excellent (2025)LACHANIAS 2: Excellent (2025)RENI: Excellent (2025)TSAMPIKA: Excellent (2025)AMMOUDES: Excellent (2025)SORONI: Excellent (2025)FALIRAKI 2: Excellent (2025)ANTONY KOUIN: Excellent (2025)ENYDREIOU 3: Excellent (2025)STEGNA: Excellent (2025)KOKKINA - GOURNES: Excellent (2025)LACHANIA: Excellent (2025)KOLIMPIA: Excellent (2025)THEOLOGOS: Excellent (2025)GALOUNI - KOKKINOGIA 2: Excellent (2025)KOPRIA: Excellent (2025)VIGLA: Excellent (2025)PRASONISI: Excellent (2025)VAGIES: Good (2025)KRITIKA: Good (2025)IXIA 1: Good (2025)CHARAKI: Good (2025)KREMASTI - TRIANTA 1: Good (2025)KALLITHEA: Good (2025)KATHARA FALIRAKIOU: Good (2025)KREMASTI: Good (2025)RENI - KAVOURAKIA: Good (2025)ZEFYROS: Good (2025)FALIRAKI 3: Good (2025)MAVROS KAVOS - AGALI: Good (2025)IXIA 2: Good (2025)South Aegean
How to read this map: Each dot is one official bathing water, coloured by its 2025 rating; select a dot to open that site. Coloured areas are the regions; region names link to their pages. Sea and large lakes are blue, neighbouring countries grey. Positions: official EEA coordinates. Boundaries: Eurostat NUTS 2024, generalised (© EuroGeographics); lakes: Natural Earth. Outlines are simplified, so a few shoreline dots can sit just offshore.

Rhodes by area

Each official site is grouped under the nearest of 7 reference towns, measured in a straight line from its reported coordinates. This is an orientation aid, not a municipal boundary.

2025 EEA classes by area (nearest reference town)
AreaSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Rhodes town94 (44.4%)5000
Ialysos / Ixia63 (50%)3000
Kamiros / west coast11 (100%)0000
Faliraki1713 (76.5%)4000
Lindos98 (88.9%)1000
Kiotari / Gennadi77 (100%)0000
Prasonisi / south33 (100%)0000

Most consistent Excellent sites

37 sites were Excellent in all eleven seasons. Ordered by the length of the unbroken Excellent run ending in 2025; the first 24 are shown, the rest are in the area lists above.

  1. AFANTOU 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  2. AFANTOU - KOLIMPIA 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  3. AGIA AGATHI 11 seasons · around Lindos
  4. AMMOUDES 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  5. ANTONY KOUIN 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  6. ENYDREIOU 1 11 seasons · around Rhodes town
  7. ENYDREIOU 2 11 seasons · around Rhodes town
  8. ENYDREIOU 3 11 seasons · around Rhodes town
  9. FALIRAKI 1 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  10. FALIRAKI 2 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  11. GALOUNI - KOKKINOGIA 1 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  12. GALOUNI - KOKKINOGIA 2 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  13. GENNADI 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  14. GLYSTRA 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  15. KIOTARI 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  16. KOKKINA - GOURNES 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  17. KOLIMPIA 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  18. KREMASTI - TRIANTA 2 11 seasons · around Ialysos / Ixia
  19. LACHANIA 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  20. LADIKO 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  21. LARDOS 11 seasons · around Lindos
  22. LARDOS 3 11 seasons · around Kiotari / Gennadi
  23. MANTOMATA 11 seasons · around Faliraki
  24. MEGALOS GIALOS 11 seasons · around Lindos

Rated Poor in 2025

None of the 52 official bathing waters on Rhodes was classified Poor in 2025.

Changes from 2024 to 2025

Improved (0)

None.

Declined (10)

How Rhodes rated since 2015

Counts for the sites in today’s 2025 inventory; the Excellent share is calculated over classified sites only.

SeasonClassifiedExcellentExcellent sharePoor
2025523975%0
2024524994.2%0
2023525198.1%0
2022525198.1%0
20215252100%0
20205252100%0
20195252100%0
20185252100%0
20175252100%0
20165050100%0
20155050100%0

All 52 official bathing waters on Rhodes

Grouped by area, alphabetical within each group. Open a site for its 2015–2025 history, nearby alternatives, weather forecast and the national profile link.

Around Rhodes town 9 sites · 44.4% Excellent
Around Ialysos / Ixia 6 sites · 50% Excellent
Around Kamiros / west coast 1 site · 100% Excellent
  • KOPRIA Excellent Excellent 9 seasons in a row
Around Faliraki 17 sites · 76.5% Excellent
Around Lindos 9 sites · 88.9% Excellent
Around Kiotari / Gennadi 7 sites · 100% Excellent
Around Prasonisi / south 3 sites · 100% Excellent
  • LACHANIAS 2 Excellent Excellent 9 seasons in a row
  • PLIMMYRI Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
  • PRASONISI Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Compared with other destinations

#DestinationCountrySitesExcellentPoor
1CorfuGreece66100%0
2Lake GardaItaly12899.2%0
3CreteGreece17798.9%0
4HalkidikiGreece9098.9%0
5SardiniaItaly66496.8%1
6Istria (Croatia)Croatia21795.9%0
7Costa BravaSpain8694.2%1
8Algarve coastPortugal10693.4%0
9Lake BalatonHungary14885.1%0
10MenorcaSpain3080%0
11CorsicaFrance22375.8%20
12RhodesGreece5275%0
13MallorcaSpain11368.1%3
14Ibiza & FormenteraSpain4866.7%0
15French Riviera (Alpes-Maritimes)France15163.6%3

Destinations differ in size, water type and how densely sites are designated, so the table gives context rather than a quality verdict.

Quick answers

How many bathing waters on Rhodes were rated Excellent in 2025?
39 of 52 (75%) in the official EEA 2025 classification; 13 were Good, 0 Sufficient and 0 Poor.
Which sites on Rhodes have the best long-term record?
37 were Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025, for example AFANTOU, AFANTOU - KOLIMPIA, AGIA AGATHI. See the full ranking.
Were any bathing waters on Rhodes rated Poor?
No. None was classified Poor in 2025.
Where do I check whether swimming is allowed today?
On Greek Bathing Water Profiles (Ministry of Environment and Energy with the regional water directorates). Temporary bans, pollution alerts and closures are published there and on signs at the beach, not in the annual EEA class. Each site page here also shows a weather forecast with heavy-rain context.

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Source

European Environment Agency (EEA), bathing-water data and coordinates reported by Greece, licensed CC BY 4.0. Areas, counts and rankings are calculated by BathingWaterFinder from those official records.