Corfu vs Rhodes

Aerial view of Ikos Dassia beach club with curved blue pool, white cabanas, sandy beach, and turquoise sea.

Curved turquoise pool with metal railing overlooking white resort buildings, beach loungers, and Mediterranean Sea under clear blue sky.

Corfu and Rhodes, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Corfu compared with Rhodes
Corfu	Measure	Rhodes
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
4	Resorts in our catalog	9 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$205–$583/night pp	Nightly rates	$79–$328/night pp (better)
0 of 4	Adults-only resorts	2 of 9
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–March	Rainy season	November–February
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hottest, busiest and windiest
Corfu (CFU), beside the town; the east-coast resorts are 20–40 min away	Airport	Rhodes Diagoras (RHO), most resorts 20–60 min down the east coast
East, facing the mainland: calm bays north and south of Corfu Town	The coast	East for sand and calm: Faliraki, Kolymbia, Lindos, Kiotari, Lardos
Luxury all-inclusives, scenery, an old town worth an evening, calm water	Best for	Value big-resort beaches, a medieval city, reliable sun
May–October; June and September are the sweet spots	Season	May–October; June and September are the sweet spots
None tropical; the wettest Greek island, but the rain falls October–March	Weather risk	None tropical; dry summers with the meltemi wind

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Corfu

Rhodes

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Corfu and Rhodes
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Corfu · high °F	57	58	61	67	75	83	88	88	82	74	65	59
Rhodes · high °F	59	60	63	69	76	83	87	88	83	76	68	62
Corfu · rain (in)	5.5	4.6	3.5	2.4	1.4	0.6	0.3	0.7	2.7	5.3	7.4	7.0
Rhodes · rain (in)	5.9	4.3	3.0	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.7	3.9	6.1

Approximate climate normals for Corfu (east coast) and Rhodes: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.