Hitchhiking from Athens
Hitchhiking to Athens
Recent reviews mentioning Athens
38.45698, 23.59644
Very wide road, a lot of people go to Athens, especially on Sunday. Plenty of space for cars to stop. You're visible from the far. A greek took me to Kifisia in Athens, nice ride.rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min 🪧, ride: 58 km ↘
―Phong, Sun 10 Aug 2025, 13:30
37.83355, 23.77269
Spot is good if you need to go to Athens, there's a little parking area for cars to stop. I waited at a traffic light at this intersection. A Georgian worker stopped and brought me to Athens, Syntagma. Nice riderating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 20 km ↑
―Phong, Thu 07 Aug 2025, 15:30
38.15499, 23.85584
Waited a minute to get a ride up the road parallel the A1 near Afidnes.Took quite some time to get here from Athens by public transport, but worth the hassle.
rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 👍, ride: 7 km ↑
―platschi, Wed 02 Jul 2025, 17:37
39.94127, 21.57608
It's a great stop to rest and catch your breath, nice man owns this place, I could charge all my devices, drink water and also he offered me free food!Hitchhiking there was quite difficult, especially in the evening. Minimum traffic, no one stopped, even though there's a lot of place to stop.
After waiting for two hours I decided to walk down the road(I planned to walk 8 hours to Meteora), but thankfully when I was hitchhiking down the road, crazy in a good sense of words guy picked me up and he was heading to Athens, but I still asked him to drop me at Meteora. He bought me coffee, some food and gave me 10 euros. Got lucky
rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min 👍, ride: 33 km ↓
―bogdanpanov, Sat 07 Jun 2025, 18:42
40.60001, 22.68052
Great spot to get to athens, a trucker took me to volos but they went on to Athens.rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 169 km ↓
―Anonymous, October 2024
35.64241, -86.89445
Decent spot with a fair amount of traffic. Picked up by a friendly old school trucker called Hank who took us all the way to Athens, Al! One guy one girlrating: 4/5, wait: 80 min 🪧, ride: 119 km ↓
―Anonymous, August 2024
40.60232, 22.69835
We got taken by a Romanian family after 1h30 waiting, directly to Athens! We were waiting a bit after the toll station so there was space for them to stop 👍It's a bit adventurous to get to the toll station taking the bus 80 and then walking on a dusty road but really doable👍
rating: 4/5, wait: 90 min 🪧
―mimy7etoile, April 2024
39.36252, 22.93092
Busy road but cars are going slowly since the roundabout. We’ve been told by the Volos local it is the best place for south Lamia/Athens direction. Even tried a place 700m down the road where traffic lights are. Had a sign with A1 highway. We’ve got even good reactions but no one took us. Had to took a train.rating: 2/5, wait: 180 min 🪧
―Anonymous, April 2024
38.17618, 23.85432
One of the best spot to go to Thessaloniki from Athens. Got a ride in 15minutes but it is illegal to hitchhike thererating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 350 km ↑
―Asdik, April 2024
40.60239, 22.69807
Straight to Athens. So good !rating: 5/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 377 km ↓
―JnPaco, November 2023
38.29861, 21.79694
we got lucky to found a car going directly to Athens, but not many cars take this road to get to the highway, 1 out of 10 cars are going towards Athens, you will find difficulty if you want to head to Athens directionrating: 2/5
―mattpackca_travel, November 2023
39.59605, 20.86158
it will be better to hitchhike here to Athens, entrance of highwayrating: 5/5
―mattpackca_travel, November 2023
41.37233, 23.36054
I wanted to get a ride toward Athens but after an hour it became unlikely, then tried to get to Thessaloniki. It was a bit hot in August, and the majority of the cars were full. In the end, I got a ride to Serres.rating: 2/5, wait: 100 min, ride: 40 km ↓
―mokaficekhaver, September 2023
40.62354, 21.06051
Just after the border you have plenty of space to hitchhike, and border officers dont care. But not many cars, and the main difficulty is to make a greek car stop for a hitchhiker. I tried without cardboard and after that with a cardboard for Thessaloniki (Selaniku in Albanian, and Θεσσαλονίκη in greek (good luck to write it, plan enough space). Finally after 3hours an Albanian took me. (an other car stopped before and was going in Athens but that was not my goal)rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min, ride: 197 km →
―NotASerialKiller, July 2023
37.72087, 22.60392
Not bad if you go to Tripoli, Athens or Corinthrating: 4/5, wait: 20 min
―Anonymous, June 2023
38.86328, 21.18335
It's a petrol station on the highway. If you are in Amfilochis you need to walk or hike there, but it's worth it. A good place for going south to Petra/Athens. We talked with the truck drivers and got a ride in 30 minutes (to Petras).rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 113 km ↘
―Doda, June 2023
39.5941, 20.86212
If you want to travel to Patra or Athens this spot is very good in my experience.―Anonymous, June 2019
40.60232, 22.69835
A little hard to get a ride towards Igoumenitsa, Most people go t Katerini (direction Athens) but possible! We asked people while they were waiting.―Rory, August 2016
38.30381, 21.80292
Best place to hitch-hike to Athens. Just after the toll stations. There's a shade and the cars even go to a full stop. Either stand behind the toll station or go face to face and talk to the drivers. It's common to HH in Greece like that.―Anonymous, February 2016
42.00392, 21.47863
I was standing there for about an hour before the gas station and asked the people in the gas station for 30-45minutes, either I was very unlucky or the spot is pretty bad if you're trying to get to the south - Thessaloniki, Athens, etc. I would suggest going half a kilometer further, where the road splits and all the traffic mostly goes south to Veles and HHing on the road there. I've marked the spot.―Anonymous, January 2016