Hitchhiking in Greece
Hitchhiking to Greece
Recent reviews in Greece
39.486, 20.26173
Waited 2 hours for a ride to ioannina. Only one car stopped that was going to athens. The police came and told me i had to go because they wanted to do checks on cars at the spot. They told me to move to an other place. I don't recommend the spot. I didn't find a riderating: 1/5, wait: 120 min
―Anonymous, September 2025
39.69285, 20.8206
terrible. perfect conditions to be taken to albanian border, bus stop where cars can easily stop, a lot of traffic. waited over 3 hours, nobody stopped people were just laughing at me. then my water bottle was empty and i gave up. would recommend to take the bus until kakavi (border). once in albania found a ride in 10minutes.rating: 1/5, wait: 200 min 🪧
―Anonymous, Sat 01 Mar 2025, 10:00
40.96938, 22.62029
It's not very busy here, and almost all cars that came here where families with full cars. I talked to a few people and got offered a ride instantly, but not to the right border so I declined. Then after waiting for 2 hours a guy on a motorcycle offered me a ride to the border. Might have been a bit reckless but it worked.rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min 💬+🪧, ride: 23 km ↑
―Leonw, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 13:00
40.72295, 22.71823
Nice spot in the shade, but thin traffic and you're really stuck here when not getting a ride.rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 36 km ↑
―Leonw, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 10:45
40.69535, 22.8451
rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 14 km ←
―Leonw, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 09:30
40.07103, 20.60253
The customs people are nice! Even in summer traffic is quite low. We were lucky to find a couple coming back from vacation in Albania!rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 86 km ↙
―Eli, August 2025
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
38.1395, 23.8473
It's a difficult place for cars to stop, but there is a traffic light and a little space at the side to stop quickly. A Greek took me from there to Chalkida and we even went for lunch and swimming. Lucky day 🙌🏻rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 53 km ↖
―Phong, Fri 08 Aug 2025, 11:30
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
41.11785, 25.18232
There is barely any traffic around these exits and entries. On the highway people won't stop because there is no space to do so. I walked to the gas station a little bit north and luckily found a trucker willing to take me in the direction of Thessaloniki.rating: 2/5
―Anonymous, August 2025
40.72556, 22.71619
Theres an abandoned toll booth worst case sleeping scenario, but its a small road where cars drive slowly and fairly frequently, so i didnt have to wait too long to get dropped off at the border to NMrating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 58 km ↑
―SunnySupertramp, July 2025
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
38.29712, 21.79416
Only reasonable spot for hitchhiking to Ioanninarating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 30 km ↖
―JoonatanJ, July 2025
40.71111, 22.95869
We waited 2 hours at the morning and tried different spots nearby but no one stopped :(rating: 1/5, wait: 120 min
―Anonymous, July 2025
40.78947, 21.41901
Hardly any cars came through hererating: 1/5, wait: 15 min
―Anonymous, July 2025
40.71569, 22.96333
Very nice woman, hitchhiking in Greece seems hard thoughrating: 4/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 155 km →
―Anonymous, July 2025
40.62334, 22.96793
Direction kavala, very nice guyrating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 12 km ↑
―Anonymous, July 2025
40.72295, 22.71823
There's an abandoned toll station here providing shade in summer (one could even sleep in the booths at night), good visibility and road broad enough for traffic to stop for you. Not much traffic, but got a ride to the border within half an hour.rating: 4/5, wait: 32 min 👍, ride: 59 km ↑
―platschi, Thu 03 Jul 2025, 11:19
40.69608, 22.84523
Lots of traffic, used the slip road where traffic coming from the highway goes west, just after the traffic lights. Quick ride to the A1 highway crossing.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 14 km ←
―platschi, Thu 03 Jul 2025, 10:34
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
Recent reviews mentioning Greece
43.38256, 21.80804
If you're heading towards Sofia/Istanbul, this is an average spot for hitchhiking; more drivers head towards Greece/Macedonia. We tried to hitchhike at a gas station for 2.5 hours, then moved directly onto the highway. After 45 minutes, a driver heading to Pirot stopped us. I don't know if we were unlucky or if it's actually a bad spot. It's hard to say. (Perhaps we should ask the drivers at the Nais Hotel on the other side.) Overall, it's a good place for a wild camping trip – there's a quiet meadow behind the fence, and if you need one, there's a shop and a toilet.rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min 💬+🪧, ride: 81 km →
―Moonhans, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 14:25
41.98239, 19.54225
Was given a lift by two Albanian dudes heading toward Greece.rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 40 km ↓
―Vagabond, August 2025
55.561, 12.22974
Perfect, some greek/Albanians took me, they were going in vacation in Greece from Sweden. Lots of nice and no so nice people here !rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 💬, ride: 1029 km ↓
―Lesmateloc, July 2025
41.1424, 22.53316
We have up after two hours and walked back to the North Macedonia-Greece border And hitched from there.rating: 1/5, wait: 120 min 🪧
―simsvob, Fri 18 Jul 2025, 08:30
40.71569, 22.96333
Very nice woman, hitchhiking in Greece seems hard thoughrating: 4/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 155 km →
―Anonymous, July 2025
44.66333, 20.61238
Waited with a sign Nis, right on the highway just after the barriers (I saw two policemen looking guys hitch the same way). Hungarian driver going to Greece took me, Lots of traffic and no problem for car to stop directly on the road since the ones behind have to stop for the toll barrier anyway. Took bus 493 from Sava Centar in Beograd to get there, public transport is free (for now).rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 215 km ↘
―Anonymous, Wed 25 Jun 2025, 03:15
40.79591, 21.44397
I don't like hitchhiking on the highway, but there's literally no other way I could find out of Florina deeper into Greece. Got a ride pretty quickly. There's a place to stop for brave drivers, traffic doesn't go very fast and drivers see you from far awayrating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 18 km →
―bogdanpanov, Sat 07 Jun 2025, 11:23
42.65535, 23.2312
good for greece, easy to get by buss and lot of space for othersrating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 216 km ↓
―Anonymous, May 2025
39.87474, 20.02964
A guy and a girl, it was raining.We had a sign that said "Patras".
An albanian guy brought us to the border with Greece. Cars go slow and there is space to stop :)
rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 34 km ↘
―PeffePeffo, Sat 26 Apr 2025, 14:00
41.94156, 21.62029
Perfect place to leave from Skopje towards Greece. It is a bit tricky to get there with the Skopje local bus - only go from the Skopje central bus station, do NOT try other bus stops because it is a fucking chaos. If you get to the Petrovec toll gate, everybody is going the right direction and it is fairly easy to get a ride.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min
―Piterpiter, April 2025
39.87304, 20.01358
Many cars stopped. The people are very nice. We had a car directly for Greece.rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min
―Anonymous, March 2025
37.69262, 21.40183
Caught a ride halfway to Patras. Greece can be tough, but with some patience you'll get there. Good luck.rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 33 km ↖
―Gaialove, March 2025
39.16071, 21.01275
The crossroad seemed like a good spot, although not many cars were going north. Also got advice from a van driver to not be close to the highway gates for a police might fine me, so I moved further to the island of the crossroad and later indeed police showed up and gave me warning not to be close to the gates. There was cafe near where lady gave me free bananas and could use a toilet for free (kinda jackpot in greece). There was no shade on the street so i had to take breaks.rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 72 km ↑
―samuel, January 2025
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
41.72314, 21.78766
Decent enough spot. Cars go slowly and it's close to the highway. The roundabout has two lanes, with most cars only using the inner one, leaving the external lane empty for people to stop. There wasn't much traffic though (December 2024). I ended up waiting for 2 hours with no luck (going south towards Greece). I ended up taking a bus for 440MKD since it was already dark.rating: 3/5
―Vojaganto, Fri 06 Dec 2024, 17:30
39.91053, 20.36547
Waited with a Patras sign and got scooped up and taken to Nafpaktos. Heaps of room but no shade in summer (if you stand in an obviously spot). Decent spot if you get made to walk across the boarder. Most cars don’t take you and will drop you off in Kakavije even if they’re going through to Greecerating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 263 km ↘
―KJMurray, October 2024
40.69722, 20.86548
I didn't tried it because I got a good ride but that's a good spot to go to the boarder Greece in caserating: 5/5, wait: 0 min 🪧, ride: 23 km ↘
―Travel01, August 2024
40.67125, 19.48095
Really good Spot to go to Gijrokastra or towards Greece borderrating: 5/5, wait: 3 min 🪧, ride: 108 km ↘
―falke, August 2024
39.45502, 23.11991
Even though it was March evening almost sunset there were kind of lot of cars. They are going slowly and like the fifth car took us. It was a truck so we sat in the back <3 (get used to it in Greece/balkans). I would recommend weekends during season since it is popular beach.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 2 km ↙
―Anonymous, April 2024
42.00137, 21.49313
-----2024----Best place to go to GREECE
There's a lane for cars to stop on this giant road; you can see the cars coming from far, far away. After 20 minutes I found a woodcutter who took me to a toll booth near the border.
Info: I'm a young man of 23.
rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 127 km ↘
―Melaine, April 2024