Rhodes vs Zanzibar

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

Thatched-roof pavilion with blue curtains surrounded by palm trees, flowering plants, and a small pool at The Palms Zanzibar.

Rhodes and Zanzibar, 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

Rhodes compared with Zanzibar
Rhodes	Measure	Zanzibar
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
9	Resorts in our catalog	15 (better)
★ 4.6	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$111–$401/night pp	Nightly rates	$93–$723/night pp (better)
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	0 of 15
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–February	Rainy season	Long rains mid-March to May (April is the wettest month), short rains in November
June and September; July–August is hottest, busiest and windiest	Sweet spot	June to October and December to February
Rhodes Diagoras (RHO), most resorts 20–60 min down the east coast	Airport	Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ); listed transfers run 40 to 97 minutes
May–October; June and September are the sweet spots	Season	June to October and December to February; long rains mid-March to May

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

Rhodes

Zanzibar

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Rhodes and Zanzibar
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rhodes · high °F	59	60	63	69	76	83	87	88	83	76	68	62
Zanzibar · high °F	89	90	90	87	84	84	83	83	84	86	88	89
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
Zanzibar · rain (in)	3.0	2.4	5.9	15.3	7.8	1.9	1.1	1.4	2.0	3.5	8.0	5.5

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