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Hitchhiking from Athens

Hitchhiking to Athens

Recent reviews mentioning Athens

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

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 girl

rating: 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 there

rating: 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 direction

rating: 2/5

―mattpackca_travel, November 2023

39.59605, 20.86158

it will be better to hitchhike here to Athens, entrance of highway

rating: 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 Corinth

rating: 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

39.53474, 21.79063

Went to athens after a long a complicated day. Started to hitchhike at 10:00 and got in athens at midnight

―Gustavobretz, May 2015

39.37553, 22.01878

Got a ride from here to the middle of nowhere direction Lamia. But I made it to Athens on this day

―Gustavobretz, May 2015

39.53474, 21.79063

Old road from Trikala to Athens. Came here walking from the city center. Maybe 1 hour. Not so many place for the car to stop, but busy

―Anonymous, May 2015

40.72419, 22.71476

I waited here for an hour until I satret to walk along the highway towards south. Almost no cars passing here at 18:00, no place to park, very dangerous to walk on the highway. I had to sleep close to the field. On the next morning, a truck driver took me to the second exit to thessaloniki, where people came from this city direction athens.

―Gustavobretz, May 2015