Hitchhiking from Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki on Hitchmap

Hitchhiking to Thessaloniki

View all spots mentioning Thessaloniki

Recent reviews mentioning Thessaloniki

40.69535, 22.8451

Great spot for hitching north from Thessaloniki. There are traffic lights so the cars are really slow there. We were 2 guys and had a sign North Macedonia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 70 km ↖

simsvob, Thu 17 Jul 2025, 14:30

40.32999, 22.58152

Tough one if going towards Macedonia. After 5min had a ride offer to Thessaloniki, unfortunately declined, just to wait almost 4 hours (started 5:55 AM) for the next car to stop that went along the ring road of Thessaloniki, where there was a better spot towards Macedonia. Some tourists, but very low traffic in the early morning hours. Great sleep on the restaurant sofas though.

rating: 2/5, wait: 233 min 👍, ride: 58 km ↗

platschi, Thu 03 Jul 2025, 09:48

38.21368, 23.85475

Not much traffic, but got a truck that drove to Thessaloniki within the hour.

rating: 3/5, wait: 54 min 👍, ride: 324 km ↖

platschi, Wed 02 Jul 2025, 18:45

39.595, 20.86255

Was trying to hitchhike to Thessaloniki.
Quite many cars, part of them heading in the direction of Thessaloniki.
But during the 6h there none stopped to pick me up.
One stopped to offer water, but was not going my way.

rating: 1/5, wait: 300 min 🪧

nelabais, Sat 21 Jun 2025, 21:30

40.62354, 21.06051

I second that it is very difficult to get greek people to stop for you. we ended up asking people at customs and finally getting a ride to thessaloniki (by an albanian). not sure what my advice is, it will be difficult, also seems pretty impossible to hitchhike from the highways as there is literally almost no traffic the whole way. might actually be best to stand directly on the highway. from thessaloniki to turkey we ended getting a bus

rating: 3/5, wait: 100 min 💬, ride: 198 km →

Leomagdich, June 2025

40.62285, 21.05682

I think durring season IT IS a good place but the people there hesitate to Pick you Up.
We waitet around 1 and a half hours Till we got picked Up by an Albanien Guy directly to Thessaloniki

rating: 3/5, wait: 100 min, ride: 198 km →

―Anonymous, March 2025

41.37644, 23.36211

We used a sign with "Serres" as a Destination. Got picked up by a friendly Family after 15min and dropped of Close to the Highway going to our real Destination Thessaloniki

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 34 km ↓

―Anonymous, Tue 25 Mar 2025, 13:30

41.1265, 22.55172

The spot is great (great visibility and place to stop), but I ended up waiting for quite some time to find a ride to Thessaloniki. When asking around, I even talked with a man my age who said he was going to Thessaloniki, but "refused to take strangers into [his] car because of all the problems with imigrants". Funnily enough, I was picked up by an Albanian who emigrated to Greece a few minutes later.

rating: 5/5, wait: 120 min 🪧, ride: 79 km ↘

Vojaganto, Sat 07 Dec 2024, 16:00

40.60232, 22.69835

Didnt have a sign & spot isbt too easy to reach (takes 2 hours) from thessaloniki center. Still, worked. Lots of slow traffic

rating: 3/5, wait: 80 min 👍, ride: 185 km ↙

―Anonymous, October 2024

41.1265, 22.55172

The easiest and quickest spot to go to Thessaloniki. The police at the borders and the people at the bar will tell you to take a taxi for the first town, don’t listen to them and put your thumb up, you’ll get a ride before noticing

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 79 km ↘

―Anonymous, June 2024

42.66517, 23.25969

We started from here to go to Thessaloniki but we wrote Blagoevgrad on our sign and someone took after waiting some time

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 3 km ↙

mimy7etoile, 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

40.6524, 22.82911

-----2024----
I tried to hitchhike from here, there's an area where cars can stop, but not many people stop. After 3 hours, a car finally stopped on the motorway to let me in;
I strongly recommend taking a train out of Thessaloniki.




rating: 1/5, wait: 200 min, ride: 50 km ←

Melaine, April 2024

41.1265, 22.55172

200 meters after the border, I got the ride to Thessaloniki by a Turkish truck driver

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 77 km ↘

Kompas, February 2024

40.70718, 23.18891

best way to go to Turkey, ask the Turkish truck driver.
It may be complicated to get there from Thessaloniki city centre, you need to take the bus to Analipsi and from there walk to this rest station in about 20 mins

rating: 5/5

mattpackca_travel, November 2023

39.67089, 22.44974

Finally! Took about 2 hours and 3 different spots, but here we got a ride to Platamon. Best to walk here instead of the gas station if going direction Thessaloniki, because about half cars turn right here and go to villages, so you avoid those and only get the ones going far.

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 40 km ↗

―Anonymous, October 2023

39.5957, 20.86294

Waited for about 40 mins until a very friendly guy stopped and helped me go to Thessaloniki!

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 263 km ↗

Spyros, October 2023

41.09611, 23.47395

Gas station, not really frequented, but friendly staff. I tried to go to Thessaloniki. A bus picked me up.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 83 km ↙

mokaficekhaver, September 2023

41.09927, 23.48302

I wanted to go to Thessaloniki. The traffic was not intense, and the cars had enough space no one stopped. Went further to a gas station where a bus picked me up.

rating: 1/5, wait: 40 min

mokaficekhaver, September 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

© Hitchmap contributors