In my opinion it's better spot then station cuz hare is more traffic, cars are slow after toll station and there is place to stop. Better to use sign. After an 1h Turkish truck driver took me to Turkish border.

Going out of Athenes is like going out of Paris. Good luck The spot was great. I manage to go on the highway 🙌🏼 There is some bus stop if you are stuck too.

Not a good spot, saw about 8 cars in 45 mins at 6:00 pm. If you get there earlier you might have a chance. I gave up and was going to walk into town and find a park to sleep in when the last car gave me a ride to the border

Had a super weird guy pick me up and I needed to get out of the car so I had him drop me here but it’s not a good spot. Even though there is a shoulder cars are to fast. I gave up after an hour and walked 1 hour to sidirokastro, where I got a ride to the border but it was very lucky

Can’t particularly recommend but if you get dropped here this is probably the best spot to the border. Don’t accept rides that don’t go to the border, there is nowhere else to hitchhike, I got stuck in a tiny town and had to walk 3 hours

There is space on the shoulder for a car to stop if they really want to. But the cars are fast and the trucks probably can’t stop and I got super lucky, a guy stopped and started backing up on the shoulder to pick me up. You have to jump a fence to get here. I cannot recommend hitchiking out of Thessaloniki it is extremely difficult in all directions

Waited 1.5 hours, nobody stopped. Some traffic but not to much. It’s possible to get a ride but I left after 1.5 hours because I didn’t even get any interaction from drivers. No hand signals or anything. I pinned the spot I went to and I got a ride there but honestly I can’t recommend it either it was super dangerous, and I got extremely lucky

Was offered a ride across the border instantly and without asking.

Stand behind the toll post so truck drovers coming through the post can see you and pick you up. You can cross the highway here so it’s easy to go in either direction.

Stand behind the toll post on the side where the trucks go through. Also check if anyone at the rest stop goes to your desired location. The highway is easy to cross, so this stop works in direction Istanbul and Athens.

This is a better spot than the gas station because you avoid all of the cars taking the alternative road, but still we got lucky.

Didn't get a ride here, this is not the main highway and a lot of cars are going to their villages. While we were walking towards the toll road a car stopped and bringed us 60km north from there. To arrive here we took a Train and then walked 3km

Out of season at Tuesday afternoon, there is extremely low traffic. 2 cars in hour. So i walked like 10km before two old greec guys took me to Florina. Don't recommend this path, beter to choose south.

Got a ride to Thessaloniki right away. Easy spot, some traffic and very slow

nice elderly albanian couple who took me there. the spot is very good cause youre right in the middle of the road very visible and you can jump in the car quickly when theres not much traffic

Iu pagis al ni la buson al la urbo.

Ni nur volis trovi bonan lokon por dormi kaj skribis grandan FREEDOM. Ili kondukis nin al bela lago por kampadi.

BONA loko, mi provas iri suden ien. Tamen, se via celo estas Petra aŭ Ateno, vi pli bone evitu eniri Artaon, provu iom pli foren jam ĉi tie.

Ni, ni du, kaj nur aŭtoj kun nur unu loko haltantaj. Preskaŭ neniu venas ĉi tien. Tre senmova. Almenaŭ estas bone kampadi.

Ŝajnas esti bona kaj facila loko al Ioannina aŭ iom poste, en nia kazo, ĝis la flughaveno. Ni alvenis ĉi tien post provado de unu horo hodiaŭ direkte al Ateno kaj ĉirkaŭ 5 horojn la alian tagon en la sama loko direkte al Ateno.

There is some place for cars to stop, good spot for going Greece, but i dont suggest, i did mistake with it.

Stood with a sign saying SRB, an Estonian guy driving to Greece took me all the way to Novi Sad and gave me 20€ and an apple

Many cars passing by, nobody stopped for hours. One guy stopped and wanted to give me 50€ for the bus. Then a local guy who saw me 1,5h earlier stopped and took me even though he didn't even needed to go my direction. Friendly people in Greece but they just don't get the concept of hitchhiking.

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.

Was given a lift by two Albanian dudes heading toward Greece.

Perfect, some greek/Albanians took me, they were going in vacation in Greece from Sweden. Lots of nice and no so nice people here !

We have up after two hours and walked back to the North Macedonia-Greece border And hitched from there.

Very nice woman, hitchhiking in Greece seems hard though

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).

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 away

good for greece, easy to get by buss and lot of space for others

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 :)

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.

Many cars stopped. The people are very nice. We had a car directly for Greece.

Caught a ride halfway to Patras. Greece can be tough, but with some patience you'll get there. Good luck.

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.

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.

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.

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 Greece

I didn't tried it because I got a good ride but that's a good spot to go to the boarder Greece in case